Chap. 271.—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 the interest on the public deft, and to provide a special tax for pensions, as
authorized by section 189 of the Constitution, approved April 14, 1903.

Approved May 13, 1903. %

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 the interest on the pub-
lie debt and to provide a special tax for pensions, as authorized by sec-
tion one hundred and eighty-nine of the Constitution,” approved April
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

§ 50. 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 bar-
ter 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 merchandise his license shall be
valid for one year from date of its issue. Said license shall not be trans-
ferable, and any person so licensed shall endorse his name on the 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 one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars for each offense, one-half of which shall go to the informer; and
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
subject to the penalties of peddling without a license. This section shall
be construed to include persons engaged in peddling lightning rods. All
persons who do not keep a regular place of business (whether it be in a
house, on 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. And 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 personally, or through their
agents, offer for sale or sell, and at the time of such offering or sale, de-
liver goods, wares, and merchandise, elsewhere than at such regular place
of business, 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 em-
ployees, ice, fuel, meats, fowls, fish, game, vegetables, fruits, or other
family supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them; nor
to merchants who keep a regular place of business open at all times in
regular business hours and at the same place, without a city or town, who
shall sell such articles to merchants only residing and doing business in
a city or town.
2. This act shall take effect from its passage.