Each person conducting what is commonly known as a cleaning or pressing business, where wearing apparel is cleaned or pressed, shall pay a license tax of $5 in all places of less than 10,000 inhabitants, whether incorporated or not; in cities or towns of 10,000 inhabitants and less than 50,000 inhabitants, $10; in cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more, $15; provided, that where dyeing is done singularly or in conjunction with the cleaning and pressing business, $10 additional. Each place maintained or operated for the reception or collection of such articles and not at the location of such pressing, cleaning, or dyeing plant paying a license as such shall pay a license tax of $5. A person not having a place of business within the State of Alabama where such work is actually performed shall pay a license tax of $15 for the reception and collection of such articles.
Ala. Code § 40-12-75 (1975)