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Section 20-52.2. Peddlers of Perishable products. (a) Every person peddling perishable products as defi~ed herein shall pay a business license tax of $50.00 per year. (~b) A peddler of perishable products is defined as any person who carries from place to place ice, wood, meats~ milk, butter, eggs, pountry, fish, oysters, vegetables, fruits, or other farm products not grown nor produced by him and purchased by him for sale, and offers to sell or actually sells and delivers same at retail. ~c) No peddler of perishable products shall be permitted, while doing business as a peddler of perishable products to keep his vehicle in one location on the streets for a longer period of time than ten C10) minutes, and shall not make sales in front of or near a place of business where business si~lar to that conducted by the peddler of perishable products is transacted. Any person violating the provisions of this sub- sectiQn shall be guilty of a Class IV Misdemeanor for each such offense. Section 20-52.3. Itinerant Merchant or Itinerant Vendor. Every person who shall engage in, do or transact any temporary transient business in the City for the sale of goods, wares and/or merchandise, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, shall hire, lease, use or occupy any building or structure, motor vehicle, tent, car, boat or public room, or any part thereof, including rooms in hotels, lodging houses or house of private entertainment, or in any street, alley or other public place~ shall pay a business license tax of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per month or fraction thereof. The term "itinerant merchant" or "itinerant vendor" as defined in S54-809 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, is adopted herein and incorporated by reference. Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia~ at a meeting held February 28 , 1984. Teste: City Clerk