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(d) Twenty dollars ($20.00) for each trailer or semi- trailer designed for use as living quarters for human beings. (e) Ten dollars [$10.00) in addition to eighty ~ents (.80) per one hundred_ (100) pounds of weight or majo~ fraction thereof for each motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer kept or used for rent or for hire or operated under a lease without a chauffe,~r for the transportation of passengers. An additional fee of five dollars ($5.00) shall be charged if the vehicle weiqhs in excess of four thousand (4,000) pounds. This subsection does not apply to vehicles used as cotm~on carriers. (f) Twenty dollars ($20.00) for a taxicab and other vehicles kept for rent or hire operated with a chauffeur for the transportation of passengers, which operates or should operate under permits issued by the State Corporation Commission as required by law and the City Code. A~ additional fee of five dollars ($5.00) shall be charged if the vehicle weighs in excess of four thousand (4,000) pounds. This subsection does not apply to vehicles used as common carriers. (g) Fifteen dollars ($15.00) for a motorcycle, with or without a sidecar. (h) Twenty dollars ($20.00) for a bus used exclusively for transportation to and from Sunday School or church, for the purpose of divine worship; provided that if the empty weight of the vehfcls exceeds four thousand (4,000) pounds, the fee shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00). (i) Ten dollars ($10.00) in addition to seventy cents (.70) per one hundred (!00) pounds of weiqht or major fraction thereof for other passenger-carrying veh±~les. Definitions of terms not otherwise found in this Code shall have the meaning as prescribed in Section 46.1-1 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended. 2. That Section 23-473 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1973, be amended to read as follows: Section 231473. Same-small rented vehicles jointly operated. The license taxes required by Subsections (e) and (f) of Section 23-47~ to be paid for the operation of motor vehicles used for rent or hire shall not be required for th~ operation of any motor vehicle with a normal seatin~ capacity of not more than six adult persons including the driver (a) while used not for profit in transporting persons who~ as a co~on undertaking, bear or agree to bear all or a part of the actual costs of such operation, or (b) while used by a lessee renting or hiring such vehicle for a period of twelve (12) months or longer under a written lease or agreement; and for the purpose of Section ~3- . ~470 %every such motor vehicle shall be treated as a private passenq~a~ f