License taxes shall be payable in advance and no person shall conduct any of the businesses or trades or follow any of the occupations or callings, or operate any of the vehicles, or set up or operate any of the gaming tables, amusement devices, jukeboxes, or places of amusement upon which a license tax is herein levied, until the tax for the current period shall have been paid, and a license thereby obtained and publicly posted in a conspicuous place in the licensee's place of business or in the cases of street railway cars, motor buses and omnibuses, in such vehicle, and in the cases of gaming tables, amusement devices, jukeboxes and street vendors, hawkers or peddlers using a vehicle, the metal plate or paper sticker issued with license affixed to such table device, jukebox or vehicle.