LICENSES 2419

parel, and etc., without laundry machinery who do not keep shops or regu-
lar places of business for public laundry purposes, nor to hotels doing
their own laundering exclusively.

Junk Dealers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 234. 1912, sec. 172. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 172. 1918, ch. 344.

279. Each person, firm or corporation dealing in junk within this
State shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business by first tak-
ing out an annual license therefor, for each place of business and paying
the following license fee, viz.:

In cities or counties of 50,000 inhabitants or over, each, per
annum ...................................................... $ 30.00

In cities or counties of 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, each, per
annum ............................................... $ 20.00

In cities or counties of 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants, each, per
annum ...............................................$ 10.00

In Baltimore City.................................... $100.00

This section referred to in construing the Zoning Ordinance of Baltimore City.
Landay v. Zoning Appeals Board, 173 Md. 460.

This section is constitutional and valid. It does not violate art. 15 of Declaration
of Rights; it does not impose a property tax but is a tax upon an occupation; it is a
revenue measure. Power of legislature in prescribing license system, classification and
regulations. Term "junk dealers" is sufficiently clear and definite. State v. Shapiro,
131 Md. 170.

Trading Stamp Companies.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 235. 1912, sec. 173. 1916, ch. 704, sec. 173. 1935, ch. 360,

280. Every person, firm, association and corporation of this State or
carrying on business therein, who shall sell or deliver any stamps, cou-
pons, tickets, certificates or other similar devices which are or may be
redeemable for merchandise, other than a manufacturer or packer issuing
such stamps, coupons, tickets, certificates, labels or other similar devices
around or in connection with his, their or its own products, to any other
person, firm, association or corporation, in connection with any sale by
such other person, firm, association or corporation, of any goods, wares
or merchandise, shall before so doing take out an annual license therefor
and shall pay an annual license fee of five hundred dollars; and every
manufacturer or packer who shall furnish, sell or deliver any such stamps,
coupons, tickets, certificates, labels, or other similar devices with or in
connection with the sale of his, her or its own manufactured or processed
products to any other person, firm, association or corporation shall, before
so doing, take out an annual license therefor and pay an annual license
fee of fifty dollars.

This section is constitutional and valid. Police power of state; classification of
conditions to which it is applicable; arbitrary discrimination, denied; application of
section. Cases reviewed; views of court of appeals revised. Where traverser does not
belong to either of two classes against which he alleges a statute discriminates, he
cannot raise question of its constitutionality on that ground. State v. Seney Co., 134
Md. 437.

See art. 27, sec. 593, et seq.