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• § 16A-61 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE § 16A-62 ports gasoline or other petroleum products of like nature on or through the streets of this city for sale or delivery to whole- sale or retail merchants for resale in this city shall pay a li- cense tax for the privilege of doing such business in this city, the same to be graduated by the amount of sales or delivered price made by him or it of such commodities sold or delivered in this city during the next preceding year, or, in the case of starting business during the year, the estimated amount of sales which will be so made during the balance of the license year, the amount to be paid to be the same as that required of • a retail merchant. This section shall not apply to a person, firm, or corporation who or which has paid or is assessable a business license under some other section of this chapter. (4-7-69, § 38.) Sec. 16A-61. Hobby horses, merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, etc. On every license to keep a hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel or other like amusement, except as herein pro- vided, the tax shall be fifty dollars per week, and no license shall be issued under this section for a shorter period than one week. But if any such amusement is conducted solely for amusement purposes without charge, an annual tax of one hundred fifty dollars shall be imposed in lieu of such weekly tax; provided, that such hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferric wheel or like amusement shall not be accompanied with music or other audible sound which can be heard a greater distance than three hundred feet from the location of such hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel or other like amusement. (4-7- 69, § 39.) Sec. 16A-62. Hotels and motels. Any person who keeps a public inn or motel, or lodging house of more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are • lodged for pay, shall be deemed for the purpose of this section to be engaged in the business of keeping a hotel. For the pur- pose of this section a transient guest is one who puts up for less than one week at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel because some of its guests put up for longer periods than one week. For the privilege of operating such business the li- cense tax shall be twenty-five dollars and where the gross re - 238.22 Supp. # 12, 8-69 •