CHAP. 457.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 50 of an act entitled
an act to raise revenue for the support of the government and public
free schools, and to pay interest on the public debt, and to provide a
special tax for pensions, as authorized by section 189 of the Co
tution, approved April 16, 1908, and acts amendatory thereof, as
amended by an act approved March 19, 1914. (H. B. 87.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifty of an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the
support of the government and public free schools, and to pay
interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax for
pensions, as authorized by section one hundred and eighty-nine
of the Constitution, approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred
and three, and acts amendatory thereof, as amended by an act
approved March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 50. Sale by peddlers.—Any person who shall carry
from place to place, any goods, wares, or merchandise, and offer
to sell or barter the same, or actually sell or barter the same,
shall be deemed to be a peddler, and any person licensed as a
peddler may sell any personal property a merchant may sell, or
he may exchange the same for other articles; and whenever a
license is granted to a peddler to sell such goods, wares, or mer-
chandise, his license shall be valid for one year from the date
of its issue. Said license shall not be transferable, and any per-
son so licensed shall endorse his name on said license, and such
license shall confer authority to sell at any house or place within
the county or city in which the license was granted. Any
peddler who shall peddle for sale or sell or barter without a
license shall pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more
than five hundred dollars for each offense, one-half of which
shall go to the informer; any person selling or offering to sell
as a peddler shall exhibit his license on demand of any citizen
of the county, city or town in which he sells or offers to sell or
barter; and upon his failure or refusal to do so he shall be sub-
ject to the penalties of peddling without a license. This section
shall be construed to include persons engaged in peddling light-
ning rods. All persons who do not keep a regular place of busi-
ness (whether it be in a house or a vacant lot, or elsewhere),
open at all times in regular business hours, and at the same
place, who shall offer for sale goods, wares and merchandise,
shall be deemed peddlers under this act. All persons who keep
a regular place of business, open at all times in regular business
hours and at the same place, and who shall elsewhere than at
such regular place of business, personally, or through their
agents, offer for sale or sell, and at the time of such offering
for sale, deliver goods, wares and merchandise, shall also be
deemed peddlers as above, but this section shall not apply to
those who sell or offer for sale in person or by their employees,
ice, wood, meats, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game,
vegetables, fruits, or other family supplies of a perishable na-
ture grown or produced by them and not purchased by them
for sale. But a dairyman who uses upon the streets of any city
one or more wagons may sell and deliver from his wagons milk,
butter, cream and eggs in said city without procuring a ped-
dler’s license.