CHAPTER 199

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 58-841 of the Code of 1950, so
as to change the tax levied on peddlers. 251}

Approved March 14, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 58-341 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

58-341. Amount of tax; expiration of license; no pro-
ration.—For the privilege of peddling or bartering in any county
or city there shall be paid two hundred fifty dollars for each
person so engaged or employed in each county or city when he
travels on foot and when he peddles otherwise than on foot the
tax paid shall be five hundred dollars in each county and city,
except that

(1) The tax on peddlers of ice, wood or coal, not produced
by them but purchased for resale, shall be twenty-five dollars
for each vehicle used in such peddling in each county and city;

(2) The tax on peddlers of meat, milk, butter, eggs, poul-
try, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruits or other family sup-
plies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by them
shall be fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling in
each county and city; and the tax on peddlers of family supplies
of a perishable nature not grown or produced by them and
groceries generally including such articles as are customarily
sold in grocery stores other than alcoholic beverages, shall be
one hundred fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling
in each county and city;

(3) The tax on peddlers of seafood who buy the seafood
they peddle directly from persons who catch or take the same
shall be five dollars in each county, including incorporated towns
therein of less than fifteen hundred inhabitants, and ten dollars
in each city and in each incorporated town of more than fifteen
hundred inhabitants; and

(4) The tax on peddlers of lightning rods shall be two
hundred dollars in each county and city.

Every license issued under this section shall expire on the
thirty-first day of December of each year. No license issued
under this section shall be prorated. |