Blue Springs, MO Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)

Chapter 625 of the Blue Springs Code, retitled 'Cigarettes and Electronic Cigarettes' by Ord. No. 4872 in 2019, regulates tobacco retailing through both an occupation license and a sales-age floor. Section 625.040 requires every merchant or other person selling, offering, delivering, or displaying cigarettes for sale within the city, including through vending machines, to procure an occupation license for each place of business, paying the Director of Finance an occupation license tax of $2.00 per thousand cigarettes sold, offered, delivered, or displayed. Section 625.060 confirms the tax is paid once, by the dealer or wholesaler, and Section 625.060.B(2) requires a monthly tax reporting form and payment by the 15th of the following month.

Licenses are not assignable and must be conspicuously displayed under Section 625.070, and Section 625.090 bars issuance to an applicant, or the person in charge of the premises, who has been convicted of an offense involving cigarette sales or any felony. Layered on top of the licensing chapter is the age restriction in Section 625.020: it is unlawful to sell cigarettes or tobacco products, or electronic cigarettes such as vapes and e-hookahs, to anyone under 21, a threshold Ord. No. 4906 raised from 18 to 21 in 2020, with the electronic cigarette provision exempting products used to administer medical marijuana under a state-licensed dispensary.