Title
To amend City Code ? 26-967, concerning retail merchants, for the purpose of revising the business license requirements for manufacturers acting as retail merchants.
Body
THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
? 1. That section 26-967 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2015) be and is hereby amended and reordained as follows:
Sec. 26-967. Same-Retail.
(a) Every person engaged in the business of a retail merchant, as defined in Section 26-872, shall obtain a license for the privilege of doing business in the City and shall pay a license fee as set forth in Appendix A to this Code or a license tax equal to $0.20 per $100.00 of the gross receipts of the business, as provided in Section 26-871.
(b) A manufacturer who sells [at a definite place or store other than the place of manufacture] at retail only and not for resale the goods, wares and merchandise manufactured by such manufacturer[:] shall obtain a license as a retail merchant.
[(1) Is required to obtain a license as a retail merchant; and
(2) Shall include the following in the gross receipts of the business:
a. The amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise purchased from others; and
b. Gross receipts from the sale of goods, wares and merchandise manufactured by such manufacturer, either within or without the City, and sent from the place of manufacture to the store or other definite place of business in the City.]
(c) Every cooperative association, society, company or exchange and every nonprofit, cooperative association, with or without capital stock, created or operating under Code of Virginia, title 13.1, ch. 3 (Code of Virginia, ? 13.1-301 et seq.), and every cooperative marketing or purchasing association or corporation incorporated or organized under the general corporation laws of this State and brought under Code of Virginia, title 13.1, ch. 3 (Code of Virginia, ? 13.1-301 et...
Click here for full text