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72d CON GRESS . SESS . I. CH. 366 . JULY 1, 1932 .

557 b~y the Act approved March 4, 1913, creating the Public Utilities C ommission as a mended . " PAR. 32 . The owners or managers of establishments where auto- Automobile rentals . mobiles or other motor vehicles are kept for rent or lease without a driver shall pay a license fee of $5 per annum for each such establish- ment : Provided, That nothing in this paragraph shall be so con- as •onai license strued as to exempt such owners or managers from paying additional taxes . license taxes required by this section . 11 PAR. 33 . Owners of vehicles for hire, used in hauling goods, inh Vehicles for h aulin g good s used wares, or merchandise, and operating from public space, shall pay a stands . license tax of $25 per annum for each vehicle . Stan ds for suc h vehicles upon public space may be established in the manner pro- vided in section 6 (e) of the Act entitled `An Act to amend the Acts Vol . as, p . 1426. approved March 3, 1925, and July 3, 1926, known as the District of Columbia Traffic Acts, and so forth .' " PA R . 3 4 . Owners or managers o f establishmen ts where motor Garages, eta vehicles of any description are washed, cleaned, greased, oiled, - or repaired, for profit or gain, shall pay a license fee of $5 per annum . 11 PAR. 35. Owners or managers of livery stables shall pay a license Livery stables. fee of $5 per annum : Provided, That nothing in this paragraph shall Additional l ice nse be so construed as to exempt such owners or managers from paying taxes . additional license taxes required by this section . " PAR. 36 . No person shall sell any article of merchandise, or an

sales anon public y - st ree ts,w itho utli cen se, thing whatever, excepting newspapers sold at large and not from a prohibited . ers . fixe d loca tion, upon t he pu blic s treets , or f rom pu blic space in the District of Columbia, without a license first having been obtained under this paragraph . Persons so licensed shall be considered as venders, whether selling from a fixed location, on foot from house to house, or from a vehicle of any description, and shall pay a license tax of $12 per annum . Every vender so licensed shall be furnished Vender's badge . with a badge corresponding to the number of his license, which badge shall be worn conspicuously whenever transacting bu siness, and where sales are made from a vehicle such vender shall be pro- vided with a metal plate containing a number similar to the number of his license, which plate shall be conspicuously attached to the Provisos. vehicle at all times when such vender is transacting business : Pro- venders selling prod- vided, That no license shall be required of any person bringing to ucts of own raising . and selling at the several markets produce of his own raising : And provided further, That raisers of produce shall not be exempt from Market, etc., sales. the license tax imposed unless they sell such produce at the several Regwations L,. ue markets or by the wholesale in cart, wagon, or carload lots . The prescr ibed. Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empo wered to make , mod ify, and enfo rce n eces sary regu lati ons g ov- erning the conduct upon the public streets and public spaces of venders licensed hereunder, including the power to locate the places where licensed venders on the public streets and public spaces shall stand, and to change them as often as the public interests require . House-to-house solid- " PAR. 37 . Solicitors shall pay a license fee of $5 per annum . Any torn . person who goes from house to house, or place to place, within the District of Columbia, selling or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for goods, wares, merchandise, or any article or thing of value for future delivery, or for services to be performed in the future or for the making, manufacturing, or repairing of any article "solic,tor" con- or thing whatsoever for future delivery, and requiring or accepting a strued . depo sit fo r such futur e del ivery or ser vice, shall be de emed t o be a