Each manufacturer of coffins or caskets shall pay a license tax of $100. This license tax shall not apply to any person who manufactures coffins or caskets without the assistance of any other person or without the assistance of hired labor and which coffins or caskets retail for not exceeding $10. This section shall not apply to local wood-working plants or carpenter shops whose principal business is not the manufacturing of coffins or caskets and who make coffins for paupers for local governing bodies or for charity.
Ala. Code § 40-12-78 (1975)