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AL Code § 40-12-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-121 - Lumber and Timber Dealers.

Section 40-12-121Lumber and timber dealers. Each wholesale dealer or jobber of lumber and timber and each wholesale dealer in lumber and timber on commission whether maintaining an established place of business or not shall pay a license tax of $100. A sawmill operator, regularly licensed under Section 40-12-154, shall not become liable for the license tax imposed by this section by reason of his purchasing partially manufactured lumber from other sawmills, if the processing of said partially manufactured lumber is completed at the plant of the sawmill operator so purchasing the same and the lumber is thereafter shipped or sold in the same manner as lumber manufactured at the plant of such operator; provided, that such purchases do not exceed in volume the lumber manufactured by such operator at his own plant or plants. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §546; Acts 1945, No. 460, p. 693.)
AL Code § 40-12-122 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-122 - Lumberyards.

Section 40-12-122Lumberyards. Each person operating a lumberyard shall pay the following license tax: In cities of 100,000 inhabitants and over, $75; in cities of less than 100,000 and not less than 35,000 inhabitants, $40; in cities of less than 35,000 and not less than 7,000 inhabitants, $25; in cities of less than 7,000 inhabitants and not less than 1,000 inhabitants, $10; and in all other places, whether incorporated or not, $5. This section shall not apply to a regularly licensed sawmill selling lumber at retail at its plant. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §547.)
AL Code § 40-12-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-123 - Machinery Repair Shops.

Section 40-12-123Machinery repair shops. Each person operating a shop for the repair or rebuilding of machinery or making parts therefor for the public and charging for same shall pay the following license tax: In cities or towns of 100,000 or more inhabitants, $40; in cities or towns of 50,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants, $25; in cities or towns of 15,000 and less than 50,000 inhabitants, $15; and in all other places, whether incorporated or not, $5. This license shall not apply to what is commonly known as a blacksmith shop or to shops repairing automobiles where a garage license or an automobile repair license has been taken out. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §548.)
AL Code § 40-12-124 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-124 - Manicurists, Hairdressers, Etc.

Section 40-12-124Manicurists, hairdressers, etc. Each person engaging in the business of manicuring, hairdressing or administering facial treatments shall pay a license tax of $5; provided, that this section shall not apply to such persons employed in beauty shops and beauty shop colleges, paying the license tax as provided under Section 40-12-61. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §549.)
AL Code § 40-12-125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-125 - Mattresses, Cushions, Pillows, Etc.

Section 40-12-125Mattresses, cushions, pillows, etc. Each person engaging in the business of manufacturing or upholstering cushions, mattresses, pillows, or rugs, or the renovating, cleaning or reworking of same, shall pay for the privilege of engaging in such business, $15; provided, that the license tax shall be $5 in towns of 3,000 or less population. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §551.)
AL Code § 40-12-126 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-126 - Medicine, Chemistry, Bacteriology, Etc.

Section 40-12-126Medicine, chemistry, bacteriology, etc. Each person engaged in the practice of medicine, chemistry, bacteriology, roentgenology, or other similar profession, except chemists, bacteriologists, and roentgenologists employed full time by physicians, nonprofit scientific institutions, and hospitals, and except doctors employed exclusively by a medical college, shall pay the following annual license tax: In cities or towns of over 5,000 inhabitants, $25; 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants, $10; all other places, whether incorporated or not, $5, but no license tax shall be paid to the county. If such business is conducted as a firm or as a corporation in which more than one person is engaged, each person so engaged shall pay the license tax as above stated. The license tax imposed by this section shall not apply until such person shall have practiced his or her profession as long as two years. Two fifths of the annual license tax herein levied shall remain in the Treasury and shall constitute a separate fund to be disbursed by the Treasurer as follows: All of such fund arising from licenses paid in each of the separate counties of the state shall be set aside in a separate fund for such county and shall be disbursed by the Treasurer, on the order of the board of censors of the medical society of such county, if there is such organization in such county. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 181, p. 210; Code 1940, T. 51, §552; Acts 1957, No. 379, p. 508.)
AL Code § 40-12-127 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-127 - Mimeographs, Duplicating Machines, Dictaphones, Etc.

Section 40-12-127Mimeographs, duplicating machines, dictaphones, etc. Every person engaged in the business of selling or soliciting orders for the sale or purchase of mimeographs, duplicating machines, dictaphones, teletypes, or other similar machines, and except any person regularly employed by a said agent of or dealer in which said agent of or dealer in has paid the privilege tax or license tax herein provided for, the following annual privilege tax shall be levied and collected: In counties of over 100,000 inhabitants, $30; in counties of over 60,000 inhabitants and not exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, $20; in counties of over 40,000 inhabitants and not exceeding 60,000 inhabitants, $15; and in counties of 40,000 inhabitants and less, $10. Such license shall not authorize such agent or dealer to do business in any other county than that in which the license is issued, but if such agent or dealer shall do business in any other county than that in which he has secured the license above provided, he shall pay an additional license in each such county where he solicits business of one fourth of the above enumerated amounts. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §554.)
AL Code § 40-12-128 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-128 - Mining of Iron Ore - Levy and Amount of Tax; Limitation of Actions.

Section 40-12-128Mining of iron ore - Levy and amount of tax; limitation of actions. Every person engaged in the business of mining iron ore or operating an iron ore mine in the State of Alabama shall pay to the State of Alabama a license or privilege tax by the twentieth of each month for the privilege of operating said iron ore mine during the current month in which such payment is due an amount equal to $.03 per ton, of 2,240 pounds, on all iron ore mined during the last preceding month in which said mine was operated according to the run of the mine, whether such mine is an open mine or an underground mine, but no such tax shall be paid to any county in this state. Railroad weights shall govern where said iron ore is loaded on railroad cars in determining the amount of iron ore mined. In order that the industrial development of the state may be best preserved and promoted and in order that any deleterious effect of the tax levied in this section may be minimized, the Department of Revenue is authorized and empowered to lower, with the approval of the Governor, as in its knowledge of prevailing conditions may, from time to time prove expedient and advisable for the best welfare of the state, but not to raise, the rate on which the tax is computed. Any action by the state for the recovery of the tax levied under this section shall be commenced, or the assessment therefor made, within 12 months from the shipment by any means of such iron ore from the mine. Unless commenced within such period, the same shall be forever barred. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §556; Acts 1943, No. 525, p. 491.)
AL Code § 40-12-129 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-129 - Mining of Iron Ore - Report of Operators.

Section 40-12-129Mining of iron ore - Report of operators. Every person, partnership, joint stock company, or association engaged in the business of mining iron ore or coal in this state shall, by the twentieth day of each month, make a report, duly sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths, to the Department of Revenue of the number of tons of iron ore or coal mined during the preceding month according to the run of the mine and where mined by such person in this state. Every person engaged in operating or assisting to operate in any capacity whatsoever any coal or iron ore mine in this state, upon the output of which a report has not been made as provided herein upon which the license or privilege tax has not been paid and is past due, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $500, and may also be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §557.)
AL Code § 40-12-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-130 - Mining of Iron Ore - Report of Persons Receiving Products.

Section 40-12-130Mining of iron ore - Report of persons receiving products. Every person or corporation receiving coal or iron ore from any mine in this state for transportation or use shall render to the Department of Revenue by the twentieth day of each month a statement in writing, duly sworn to by some person having knowledge of the facts before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, of the number of tons so received during the preceding month. Every person receiving coal or iron ore from any mine in this state and transporting the same in motor trucks shall, in addition to the above requirements, show to whom and where each ton of coal or iron ore was delivered. Every person or corporation receiving coal or iron ore from any mine in this state for transportation or use, who shall fail by the twentieth day of the succeeding month to render the statement required herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $500. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §558.)
AL Code § 40-12-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-131 - Monuments and Tombstones.

Section 40-12-131Monuments and tombstones. Each person who sells or erects monuments or tombstones in the state shall pay an annual license tax of $5 for each county in which he sells or erects such monument or tombstone; provided, that this shall not apply to benevolent and fraternal societies that place monuments at the graves of their members. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §559.)
AL Code § 40-12-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-132 - Moving Picture Shows - Transient Operators.

Section 40-12-132Moving picture shows - Transient operators. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §560.)
AL Code § 40-12-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-133 - Moving Picture Shows - Permanent Operators.

Section 40-12-133Moving picture shows - Permanent operators. Every person engaging or continuing in the business of operating a moving picture show, or show of like character, to which admission is charged shall pay the following license tax: In cities of 35,000 inhabitants and over, $200; in cities and towns of less than 35,000 and not less than 7,000 inhabitants, $50; in all other places, $15; provided that, in cities of 35,000 inhabitants or over in which the theater is one mile or more from the city hall, the license shall be $60 per annum. Moving picture shows under this section shall be held to mean a show, the principal featuring of which is moving pictures and for which is required an annual privilege license in Alabama and shall be conducted within a building arranged or constructed for such purpose, and no additional license shall be required if other features of entertainment, including vaudeville acts, are given during any period for which an admission is charged. Any motion picture theater charging children under 12 years of age more than one half of the admission charged adults shall pay double the amount herein levied under this section; provided, that this shall not apply where admission charged such children does not exceed $.10. (Acts 1935, No. 429, p. 901; Code 1940, T. 51, §561.)
AL Code § 40-12-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-134 - Newsstands.

Section 40-12-134Newsstands. Each person operating a newsstand for the sale of magazines or periodicals shall pay an annual license tax of $5. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §563.)
AL Code § 40-12-135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-135 - Oculists, Optometrists and Opticians.

Section 40-12-135Oculists, optometrists and opticians. Each oculist, optometrist, or optician practicing his profession shall pay the following license tax: In cities or towns of over 5,000 inhabitants, $25; in cities and towns of 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants, $10; and all other places, whether incorporated or not, $5, but no license shall be paid to the county. If such business is conducted as a firm or as a corporation in which more than one person is engaged, each oculist, optometrist, or optician so engaged shall pay the license as above stated; provided, that the license imposed by this section shall not apply until such oculist, optometrist, or optician shall have practiced his profession as long as two years. A licensee having procured a license in the city or town where he has his principal office may practice his profession in any other place without the payment of an additional license. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 218, p. 259; Code 1940, T. 51, §564.)
AL Code § 40-12-136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-136 - Osteopaths and Chiropractors.

Section 40-12-136Osteopaths and chiropractors. Each osteopath or chiropractor practicing his profession shall pay an annual license tax of $20 to the state, but no license shall be paid to the county. If such business is conducted as a firm or corporation in which more than one person is engaged, each osteopath or chiropractor so engaged shall pay a license tax of $20. No osteopath or chiropractor shall be required to pay a license until after he has practiced his profession for two years. Of the license fee prescribed herein for chiropractors, but not for osteopaths, one fourth of the amount collected shall be paid into the State General Fund and three fourths of the amount collected shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. That portion paid into the credit of the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners shall be used by the board for the purposes stipulated in Section 34-24-143. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §565; Acts 1965, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 39, p. 255.)
AL Code § 40-12-137 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-137 - Packinghouses, Cold Storage Plants, Etc.

Section 40-12-137Packinghouses, cold storage plants, etc. Each cold storage plant, packinghouse, or refrigerated warehouse used for storage for hire of any food product shall pay a license fee according to the following schedule based on cubic feet of refrigerated space: Less than 25,000 cubic feet, $15; 25,000 and not over 50,000 cubic feet, $20; 50,000 and not over 100,000 cubic feet, $25; 100,000 and not over 200,000 cubic feet, $50; 200,000 cubic feet and over, $100. Operators of refrigerating pipeline for the purpose of refrigerating rooms, premises, goods, wares, or merchandise of others for profit shall pay a license tax of $75. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §566; Acts 1955, No. 81, p. 317.)
AL Code § 40-12-138 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-138 - Pawnbrokers.

Section 40-12-138Pawnbrokers. Each pawnbroker shall pay a license tax of $250 for each place of business; but, if such pawnbroker sells pistols or sawed-off shotguns, or revolvers, however acquired, he shall pay the additional license tax required for dealers in pistols or sawed-off guns or revolvers by this title. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §567.)
AL Code § 40-12-139 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-139 - Peddlers and Itinerant Vendors.

Section 40-12-139Peddlers and itinerant vendors. (a) Every itinerant vendor or peddler who shall sell or offer for sale any drugs, ointments or medical preparations intended for treatment of any disease or injury, who shall by speech, writing or printing or any other method profess to treat or cure diseases, injury or deformity by any drug, nostrum or medical preparation shall pay an annual license tax of $250 to the state and $125 in each county where he does business, but the license taken out under this section will not be so construed as to authorize the licensee to practice medicine or treat persons for diseases; provided, that the foregoing shall not be construed to apply to the sale of patent or proprietary medicines or household remedies in original or unbroken packages upon which are written or printed directions for use. (b) Each itinerant vendor or peddler of spices, flavoring, extracts, toilet articles, soaps, insecticides, stock and poultry supplies, proprietary medicines and household remedies in original packages and other packaged articles of like kind commonly used on the farm and in the home, who uses a motor vehicle solely for the purpose of transporting merchandise from house to house or place to place, who does not use such vehicle for the display of merchandise or as a rolling store and who does not permit purchasers or prospective purchasers to enter said vehicle for the purpose of inspecting or purchasing merchandise shall pay an annual license tax of $7.50 to the state and $7.50 to each county in which he does business; provided, that those who use a vehicle as herein provided, other than a motor vehicle, shall pay an annual license tax of $20 to the state and $10 to each county in which they do business, and those who operate without a vehicle of any kind shall pay an annual license tax of $10 to the state and $10 to each county in which they do business. (c) Upon the payment of the license fees provided in subsection (b) of this section, the licensee shall be required to pay no other state or county license tax for the privilege of carrying on the business described in said subsection. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 43, p. 26; Code 1940, T. 51, §568; Acts 1961, No. 721, p. 1030.)
AL Code § 40-12-140 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-140 - Photographers and Photograph Galleries.

Section 40-12-140Photographers and photograph galleries. Every photograph gallery or person engaged in photography, when the business is conducted at a fixed location, shall pay the following license tax: in cities and towns of 75,000 inhabitants and over, $25 for each fixed location; In cities and towns of less than 75,000 and not less than 40,000 inhabitants, $15 for each fixed location; in cities and towns of less than 40,000 and not less than 7,000 inhabitants, $10 for each fixed location; in cities and towns of less than 7,000 and in all other places whether incorporated or not, $5 for each fixed location. The payment of such license tax shall authorize the doing of business only in and throughout the county where paid. If the licensee does business in any other county or counties, he shall pay an annual license tax of $5 for each photographer in each additional county in which he does business. Each transient or each traveling photographer having no fixed place of business in the state shall pay a license tax of $10 per annum in each county where he does business. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §569; Acts 1967, No. 213, p. 577.)
AL Code § 40-12-141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-141 - Pianos, Organs and Other Musical Instruments.

Section 40-12-141Pianos, organs and other musical instruments. Each person engaged in the business of selling, renting or delivering pianos, organs, small musical instruments or all such articles in this state, either in person or by agent, consignee or broker, shall pay $50 as a license tax to the state for each county in which he has an established place of business, and such license shall permit him to solicit business anywhere in the state; provided, that where such dealer does not have an established place of business in the state but merely sells or solicits the sale of such articles, he shall pay as a state license tax $25 in each county. The provisions of this section shall not apply to general merchants selling as a part of their stock in trade small musical instruments, the selling price of which does not exceed $10; provided, that the license tax on general merchants selling small musical instruments, the selling price of which exceeds $10, but who do not sell pianos or organs, shall be as follows: In counties having a population of 35,000 inhabitants or less, $5; in counties having a population of over 35,000 inhabitants and not exceeding 50,000 inhabitants, $10; in counties having a population of over 50,000 inhabitants and not exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, $15; and in counties having a population of over 100,000 inhabitants, $20. This shall not be construed to entitle a licensee to maintain branch establishments or stores without payment of the regular license tax of each branch or store, both state and county, required under this section. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §570.)
AL Code § 40-12-142 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 40 - Revenue and Taxation.|Chapter 12 - Licenses.|Article 2 - Business, Vocation, or Occupation.|Section 40-12-142 - Pig Iron Storage Operators.

Section 40-12-142Pig iron storage operators. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §571.)