Licensing
The City Clerk's Office issues licenses as required by the City Code. For your convenience, several license applications are available for download.
The City of Bloomington has no general business license.
- Licenses required by City Code – See list on this page, below
- License applications and forms
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Fees
Licensed businesses, organizations and individuals
Related pages
- Motor Vehicle – Vehicle titles, license plates and driver's licenses.
- Liquor retailing in Bloomington
- Contractor licensing – Licenses administered by our Building and Inspection Division.
- Does my contractor need a license? – Avoid difficulties during your construction project.
- Contractor license application
| License/Permit | Required by City Code section: |
|---|---|
| Amusement devices | 14.16 |
| Body art | 14.376 |
| Casino Gaming Events | 14.36 |
| Cats | 14.88 |
| Commercial animal establishments | 14.94 |
| Courtesy bench | 14.147 |
| Currency Exchange Business | 14.159 |
| Dances | 14.48 |
| Dogs | 14.85 |
| Escort services and escorts | 14.166 |
| Ferrets | 14.88 |
| Fireworks Dealers | 14.442.19 |
| Food | 14.443 |
| Garbage and refuse hauler | 10.07 |
| Gasoline | 14.324 |
| Laundry, self service Commercial | 14.237 |
| Liquor | Chapter 13 |
| Massage | 14.259 |
| Minnesota Workers' Compensation Law Certificate of Compliance Form | |
| Milk, cream, and dairy products | 14.443 |
| Motel/hotel, each unit | 14.276 |
| Motorized golf carts | 8.95 |
| Newspaper rack | 14.147 |
| Parachuting and Aircraft Landings and Takeoffs | 12.43 |
| Pawnbrokers | 14.287 |
| Precious Metal Dealers | 14.442.03 and 14.420 |
| Public Entertainment/Assembly | 14.63 |
| Rental license application package – single family dwellings (duplexes, single-family dwellings, condominiums, townhouses, boarding houses, accessory dwelling units) |
14.566 to 14.594 |
| Rental license application package – multiple dwellings (multiple, three-plex, four-plex, housing with services) |
14.566 to 14.594 |
| Roller rinks | 14.69 |
| Seasonal sales license (not more than four per year) | 14.314 |
| Secondhand goods dealer | 14.442.33 / 14.420 |
| Sexually-oriented business | 14.332 |
| Sound trucks | 10.33 |
| Swimming pool, therapy and wading pool | 15.107 |
| Tanning facilities | 14.369 |
| Target range | 14.82 |
| Taxicab companies/Taxicab drivers | 14.391 |
| Temporary food license | 14.09 |
| Temporary license or permit | 14.09 |
| Temporary recycling event | 14.09 |
| Tobacco-related products, retail sale each location | 14.435 |
| Transient merchant, hawker, or peddler | 14.180 |