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<br />73. Shooting Gallery.
<br />On every person, firm or corporation operating a shooting
<br />gallery, the license tax shall be $100.00 per month. NOT PRO-
<br />RATED.
<br />74. Shows, Circuses, etc.
<br />On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhi-
<br />bition or performance, within the corporate limits of the City,
<br />whether combined or separate, the license tax shall be one
<br />hundred and fifty dollars ( $150.00) for the first performance
<br />or exhibition, and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each
<br />additional 'performance or exhibition.
<br />On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus,
<br />menagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or perform-
<br />ance within the corporate limits of the City, the license tax
<br />shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each performance or
<br />exhibition.
<br />No license shall be issued to any circus, menagerie, tent
<br />show, or other such like exhibition or performance unless and
<br />until the price of admissions and of seats shall have been
<br />previously generally published.
<br />If a show or other performance is conducted in connection
<br />with and as an inducement for the sale of merchandise there
<br />shall be charged a license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
<br />per day whether an admission is charged or not. -
<br />75. Skating Rinks.
<br />On every person, firm or corporation operating a skating
<br />rink the license tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and
<br />where the gross receipts, exclusive of excise and admission
<br />taxes, exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be forty cents ( 400 )
<br />on each $100.00 in addition thereto.
<br />76. Storing and Impounding.
<br />On every license to a person, firm or corporation to keep,
<br />for compensation, any house, yard or lot for storage, or other
<br />impounding, the tax shall be .................. $25.00, and where the
<br />gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be fifty cents
<br />(500) on each $100.00 in addition thereto.
<br />If the gross receipts on the operation under this section
<br />are included in a merchants license, issued to a bona fide
<br />merchant, then, this section shall not apply.
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<br />77. Street Vendors or Merchants.
<br />On every person, whether., manufacturer or not, selling
<br />upon the street, or other public places, inflated balloons, plastic
<br />figures, toys, jewelry, and other small articles, the license tax
<br />shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day. The City
<br />Manager shall, if he deems it necessary, designate the place
<br />of sale, or refuse the license.
<br />78. Tailors and Cutters.
<br />Each person or firm, conducting the business of tailoring
<br />or selling suits or dresses by sample shall be deemed a mer-
<br />chant and subject to Section 54, of this ordinance.
<br />79. Taxicabs and U -Drive -It Vehicles.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
<br />of operating taxicabs or leasing u -drive -it motor vehicles in
<br />this City shall pay a license tax of 100 on each $100.00 of gross
<br />receipts for the preceding calendar year. This tax shall be in
<br />addition to the FOR HIRE tag as required by Article V of
<br />Chapter 11.1 of the Code of the City of Charlottesville.
<br />80. Telegraph Companies.
<br />On telegraph companies or agents each for business done
<br />between this and other points within the State of Virginia;
<br />and not including any business done to or from points without
<br />the state, and not including business in which messages al-
<br />though to or from. points within this state, pass through
<br />territory without the state, and not including any business
<br />done for the government of the United States, its officers, or
<br />agents, a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be
<br />paid. Provided that any company taxed under this section
<br />whose receipts do not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000)
<br />per annum, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) .
<br />81. Telephone Answering Service.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
<br />of providing a telephone answering service shall pay a license
<br />tax on the gross receipts of such business as follows:
<br />If the amount of gross receipts do not exceed $2,000.00
<br />the tax shall be $25.00.
<br />For all gross receipts over $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30
<br />cents on each $100.00 in excess of $2,000.00.
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