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Business Licenses

Business organizations and Marion County residents that wish to renew or apply for a license to operate a business in Marion County, please click on the Business Licensing link on the left side of this page.

Contractor Listings and Licenses

Business organizations and Marion County residents that wish to engage in construction activity, and/or assure proper maintenance of existing structures, please click on the Contractor Licenses link on the left side of this page. 

 

NEW!  License Requirements for Tobacco Specialty Bars

 The Department of Code Enforcement is responsible for issuing licenses for Tobacco Specialty Bars. A Tobacco Specialty Bar is defined as a business that, as of January 1, 2012:

(1) Is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages pursuant to a permit issued by the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission for on-premise consumption and in which the service of food is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages and the sale of cigars or Hookah tobacco;

(2) Is engaged in the business of selling cigars or Hookah tobaccos and where at least twenty percent (20%) or more of its total annual gross income over the preceding calendar year was derived from the on-site sale of cigars or Hookah tobaccos;

(3) That is not physically located within a business otherwise required to be smoke free and

(4) That does not sell cigarettes or allow smoking of cigarettes on the premises.

Click here for more information regarding the smoking ordinance, effective June 1, 2012.

Click here for a Tobacco Specialty Bar license application.

Click here for a Tobacco Specialty Bar license affidavit.

License applications and affidavits must be received by June 1, 2012.

Limited Duration Licenses

Generally, without the designation of a special event, the activities listed below would be prohibited or severely restricted in some manner. During a special event, however, the Department of Code Enforcement has the ability to permit the following eight (8) types of activity with certain restrictions:

Click here to view Chapter 986 of Revised Code (Special Events)

Click here for contact information for local companies that provide services related to special event

 Please see below for Clean Zone Maps for the various 500 Festival Events: