Business License Application
Completed business license applications must be turned in by the business owner at the city hall in person and will not be accepted mailed in. Please have a government photo ID with you at the time of turning in your application. See below for business license fees and link to download appropriate forms. If you have 5 or more employees you must furnish proof of liability insurance or complete and furnish the affidavit of exemption for workers' compensation insurance form when you turn in your business license application. More business regulations and licenses information may be found here.
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- Business License Application
- Affidavit of Exemption for Workers Compensation Insurance
- Police Department Business Emergency Contact Registration
| Business License Fees | ||
| TYPE OF BUSINESS | DAILY / ANNUAL FEE | FEE |
| Appliance dealer | See furniture dealer | |
| Auction houses and stores | Annual | $35.00 |
| Auctioneers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Automobile, used | Annual | $35.00 |
| Bait dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Bakery | See restaurant | |
| Banks | Annual | $35.00 |
| Barber shops and hair dresser (one chair) | Annual | $35.00 |
| Additional chairs | $5.00 per chair | $5.00 |
| Billiard tables, bagatelle table, | ||
| pigeon hole table, jenny lind table, | Annual | $35.00 |
| Other tables for gain or hire | ||
| Boarding houses and nursing homes | Annual | $35.00 |
| Bowling alley or ten pin alley | Annual | $35.00 |
| Brokers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Builders | See contractors | |
| Butcher shops, locker plants, | ||
| and slaughter houses | Annual | $35.00 |
| Car dealer, used | See automobile, used | 3 |
| Carnival | See menagerie, show | 3 |
| *Child Care-Category 1 (1-6 children) | Annual | $35.00 |
| *Child Care-Category 1 (6-10 children, | 3 | |
| Zoning Restrictions Apply) | Annual | $35.00 |
| *Child Care-Category 2-Group Child | ||
| Care Home (11-20 children) | Annual | $35.00 |
| *Child Care-Category 3-Child Care | ||
| Center (Qty of children per | ||
| Directors State Qualifications) | Annual | $35.00 |
| Child Care-Nursery School-See State Definition | Annual | $35.00 |
| Circus | See menagerie, show | |
| Clinic, medical Facility, etc | Annual | $35.00 |
| Clock and watch repairs | Annual | $35.00 |
| Coal yard | See wood yard | |
| Commission merchants | Annual | $35.00 |
| Computer Sales, Services, Electronics, | ||
| Web Services | Annual | $35.00 |
| Concerts, lectures, street, exhibitions, | Annual | $35.00 |
| puppet shows, legerdemain, rope or | ||
| wire walking, all-night sings | ||
| Concrete ready-mix and block dealer | Annual | $35.00 |
| Confectioners (Ice Cream Stores) | Annual | $35.00 |
| Contractors (provided no license tax shall | Annual | $35.00 |
| be levied on day laborer) | ||
| Day Care Provider - See Child Care | ||
| Dental, medical Facility, etc. | Annual | $35.00 |
| Drug dispensing establishment | Annual | $35.00 |
| Druggist | Annual | $35.00 |
| Dry cleaning | Annual | $35.00 |
| Electrician | See plumber | |
| Electric shop | Annual | $35.00 |
| Embalmer | See undertaker | |
| Exchange Mill | See feed grinder | |
| Exhibitions | See concerts, menagerie, show | |
| Express agents | Annual | $35.00 |
| Express companies | Annual | $35.00 |
| Feed grinders, exchange mills, grain elevators | Annual | $35.00 |
| Fortune tellers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Furniture dealers and/or appliance dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Garage | Annual | $35.00 |
| Gardeners, nursery, pest control agents | Annual | $35.00 |
| General merchandise stores | Annual | $35.00 |
| Generator shop | See welding | |
| Gift enterprise | Annual | $35.00 |
| Grain elevator | See feed grinder | |
| Gunsmith | See clock and watch repair | |
| Hair dresser | See barber shops | |
| Hardware dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Horoscopic views | Annual | $35.00 |
| Hotel | Annual plus $5.00 per room | $35.00 |
| Ice manufacturers and dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Implement dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Insurance agents | Annual | $35.00 |
| Insurance companies | Annual | $35.00 |
| Jewelry repair | See clock and watch repair | |
| Juke box (electrical musical machine | Annual | $35.00 |
| operated as a musical amusement device) | ||
| Laundromat | ||
| Loan agents or companies | Annual | $35.00 |
| Locker plant | See butcher shops | |
| Lumber dealer or yard | Annual | $35.00 |
| Marble manufacture and dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Message Services | Annual | $35.00 |
| Medical Facilities, Services | Annual | $35.00 |
| Menagerie, carnival, circus | Annual | $35.00 |
| Motel | Annual plus $5.00 per room | $35.00 |
| Movie house | Annual | $35.00 |
| Nursery | See gardener | |
| Nursing School | See Child Care | |
| Nursing home | See boarding house | |
| Optician and optometrist | Annual | $35.00 |
| Package store | Annual | $35.00 |
| Patent right dealer | Annual | $35.00 |
| Pawn broker | Annual | $35.00 |
| Peddler, transient merchant, Solicitor | Annual | $35.00 |
| Pest control agent | See gardener | |
| Photographist and photographers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Pin ball machine | Annual/per machine | $35.00 |
| Plumber, electrician (persons or person | Annual | $35.00 |
| doing business as plumbers and electricians | ||
| who sell materials connected with their trade) | ||
| Printing (all printing and job printing presses of | Annual | $35.00 |
| all kinds kept in the same room and under | ||
| one management) | ||
| Produce dealers | See commission merchant | |
| Public halls | Annual | $35.00 |
| Real estate agent or dealers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Restaurants, bakeries | Annual | $35.00 |
| Scales | Annual | $35.00 |
| Self storage warehouses | Annual | $35.00 |
| Service station | Annual | $35.00 |
| Show (other than a menagerie or circus) | Annual | $35.00 |
| all shows, menageries or circuses, where | ||
| the exhibitions shows under more than two | ||
| tents See also theatrical performances | ||
| Sign painter | Annual | $35.00 |
| Slaughter house | See butcher shop | |
| Tailoring | See dry cleaning | |
| Tattoo Services | Annual | $35.00 |
| Telephone exchange - all exchanges | Annual | $35.00 |
| Theatrical performances, etc. (any theatrical, | Annual | $35.00 |
| operatic, minstrel, musical performance or | ||
| exhibition) See also shows | ||
| Tin shop or tin repairer | Annual | $35.00 |
| Trailer park | Annual | $35.00 |
| 1 | plus $5.00 per Trailer | |
| Transient merchant | See peddler | |
| Undertaker and embalmers | Annual | $35.00 |
| Vehicles (upon a license tax on each | Annual | $35.00 |
| vehicle used and operated in this city | ||
| for the purpose of hauling goods, wares, | ||
| and merchandise for parties other than | ||
| themselves) | ||
| But this section shall not apply to merchants or other persons who use their own vehicles to deliver their goods, nor persons working for the cit when in city employ. | ||
| Warehouse | Annual | $35.00 |
| Welding or generator shop | Annual | $35.00 |
| Wholesale merchants | Annual | $35.00 |
| (supplying merchants selling at retail) | ||
| Wood yard and coal yards | Annual | $35.00 |
| *Must be State Registered/Licensed | ||
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