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b. No license shall be issued under this section unless and until the applicant shall exhibit to the commissioner of the revenue written evidence of his appointment as a canvasser by a duly licensed junk or secondhand paper dealer. Section 20-67. Junk and secondhand paper dealers. a. Every person engaging in the business of dealing in junk materials or secondhand paper shall pay an annual license tax of fifty dollars ($50.00} on the first five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) and thirty cents ($0.30) for each additional one hundred dollars ($100.00) of his gross receipts in said business. ~ b. No license shall be issued under this section unless and until there is exhibited to the commissioner of the revenue a license to engage in such business issued by the proper court. c. Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any employee of such dealer acting as a canvasser from the payment of the canvasser's license tax. Section 20-68. Rental of residential property. a. Every person engaged in the business of renting residential property, including houses, apartments and dwelling unitsr shall pay an annual license tax of twelve dollars ($12.00) for each such unit. b. For the purposes of this section, the phrase "engaged in business" shall mean a course of dealing which requires the time, attention and labor of the person so engaged for purpose of earning a livelihood or profit and implies a continuous and regular course of dealing, rather than an irregular or isolated transaction. The business of renting houses, apartments or dwelling units as used in this section shall be construed to mean the renting of buildings or portions there- of, each designed for residential occupancy as a single dwelling unit by one family but not hotels, motels, mobile home parks, lodging houses or boardinghouses for which a license is otherwise required by this chapter. Section 20-69. Rummage sales. a. Every person operating a rummage sale shall pay a tax of five dollars ($5.00) per month or portion thereof. shall not be proratable or transferable. license Such licsnse b. No rummage sale may be held on High Street between Chestnut and Water Streets nor in any shop, store or building fronting on High Street between Chestnut and Water Streets. Section 20-70. Telephone companies. a. Each person or telephone company conducting a telephone exchange in this city and using and occupying the streets in the city, and constructing and maintaining the works Of the telephone company or any part thereof, along, over or under said streets shall pay as an annual license tax, three 'f3) per cent of the gross receipts from the