There is hereby levied and imposed in lieu of all licenses and privilege taxes heretofore levied, except the taxes levied by the Mississippi Sales Tax Law, a tax upon each person, firm, association or corporation owning or operating any automatic weighing machine, any automatic vending machine or device for dispensing or selling postage stamps, any automatic vending machine or device for dispensing or selling cigarettes, and automatic machines selling and vending merchandise for the sale of which any tax has been paid by the owner, which service, stamps, or merchandise is obtained by depositing therein any token, coin, or coins, a tax according to the following schedules:
Upon each person operating, owning or permitting to be operated in his place of business any automatic or slot weighing machine, or any automatic slot vending machine, or other devices dispensing or selling postage stamps, for each such machine. . . . .$2.00
Upon each person operating, owning, or permitting to be operated in his place of business any automatic vending machine wherein is kept within the machine cigarettes on which the specific privilege tax of selling such articles of merchandise at retail has been paid by the owner of the machine, or the owner of the place of business where such machine is operated, to be obtained by depositing therein any token, coin, or coins, for each such machine. . . . .$2.50
Upon each person operating, owning, or permitting to be operated in his place of business any automatic vending machine where any service is rendered and not elsewhere taxed or where is kept within the machine any article of merchandise to be obtained by depositing therein any token, coin, or coins, as follows:
For each machine requiring the deposit of a token, coin, or coins, of less than Five Cents (5¢). . . . .$2.50
For each machine requiring the deposit of a token, coin, or coins, of Five Cents (5¢) and less than Ten Cents (10¢). . . . .$5.00
For each machine requiring the deposit of a token, coin, or coins of Ten Cents (10¢) and not more than Twenty Cents (20¢). . . . .$7.50
For each machine requiring the deposit of a token, coin, or coins, of more than Twenty Cents (20¢). . . . .$10.00
Provided, however, that such machines requiring deposits of Ten Cents (10¢) or less and vending food products only shall be exempt from the provisions of this article, and no such privilege tax shall be required to be paid when such machines are sponsored by local nonprofit civic service clubs or any other organization either incorporated or unincorporated and existing and operating under the laws of the State of Mississippi when such clubs or organizations expend the proceeds from such machines for charitable purposes only.