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 72d CONGR ESS. SESS. I. CH. 366. JULY 1, 1932. 555 "(f) All dealers in food or food products not listed herein, or A~m in food prod, elsewhere in this section, shall pay a license fee of $5 per annum . "PAR. 28. Own ers or manag ers of hotel s shal l pay a licen se fee Hot els . of $18 per annum. Every place where food and lodging are provided for transient guests shall be regarded as a hotel. "PAR . 29. Owners or managers of apartments houses shall pay a Apntmenthonsest license fee of $15 per annum : Provided, That where the owner or R~• u~, addition . manager maintains a restaurant on said premises the license fee al- shall be $18 per annum : Provided further, That if a restaurant is Fee it se paratel y c~ conducted on the premises by other than the owner or manager of anc ted . the apartment house, the proprietor of such restaurant shall be liable for a separate restaurant license . Within the meaning of this para- graph an apartment house shall be a building in which the rooms are occupied in suites by three or more families . "PAR. 30. Owners or managers of lodging houses shall pay a Lodging bonsee. license fee of $15 per annum. Within the meaning of this para- graph a lodging house shall be a building in which sleeping quarters are pro vided to acc ommoda te ten or mo re tran sients. " PAR. 31. (a) Ev ery passe nger vehi cle for h ire licen sed under this Public be pare raph shall be considered a public vehicle . Application " Any person, partnership, association, trust, or corporation operating or proposing to operate any vehicle or vehicles not confined to rails or tracks for the transport ation of passenger s for hir e over all or any portion of any defined route or routes in the District of Columbi a, exc ept wh en suc h vehi cle or vehicl es are to be opera ted solely for sight-seeing purposes, shall, on or before the 1st day of October in ea ch yea r, or before comme ncing s uch op eratio n, sub mit to the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, in triplicate, an application for license, stating therein the name of such st atemen ts ther ein. person, partnership, association, trust,-or corporation, the number and kind of each type of vehicle to be used in such operation, the schedule or sche dules and th e tota l numb er of vehicle -miles to be opera ted with such vehicles within t he Distri ct of Col umbia dur ing the t welve- month period beginning with the 1st day of November in the same year. The Public Utilities Commission shall thereupon vefify and n,t yt s••co %n• approve, or return to the applicant for correction and resubmission each such statement, and when approved, forward one copy thereof to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agents and return one copy to the applicant. Upon receipt of the approved copy, and prior to the 1st day of November in the same year, or before commencing such operation, each such applicant shall pay to the collector of taxes, in lieu of any other franchise, personal or license tag, in connection with such operation, the sum of eight- tenths o f 1 cent for each vehicle-m ile prop osed to b e operate d in the Rate of fee District of Columbia in accordance with the application as approved. Upon pI esentation of the receipt for such payment, the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent shall issue a license authorizing the applicant to carry on the operations License. embodied in the approved application. No incr ease o f oper ations InC7easeOfOperation& shall be commenced-or continued unless and until an application sim- ilar to the original and covering such increase in operation shall have been approved and forwarded in the same manner and the corre- sponding additional payment made and license issued. No license Cond iti on. shall be issued under the terms of this subparagraph without the appr oval of th e Pub lic Utili ties Comm issio n of the Distr ict o f Columbia. " (c) Owners of passenger vehicles for hire having a seating ~$ e`r 0cƒ•cap~clt f', capacity of eight 'passengers or more, in addition to the driver or operator, other than those licensed in the preceding subparagraph,