Each person engaged in the business of selling at wholesale nonalcoholic, carbonated, or other soft drinks shall pay an annual license tax of $50; provided, that bottlers who have taken out the bottle license for operating plants in this state shall not be liable under this section, nor shall such bottlers be liable for any county or state license under Section 40-12-174, nor as transient vendors or dealers or peddlers.
Ala. Code § 40-12-70 (1975)