Boulder, CO Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)

" Applicants apply on city forms and pay the fee set by Section 4-20-75: a $75 application fee, a $412 license fee for a new license, and $309 for renewal (prorated to the remaining license period), with a $100 late fee for renewals filed after the deadline; application fees are non-refundable, but license fees are refunded if the application is denied or withdrawn. Section 4-32-5 fixes the license term at two years unless the licensee requests, or the city manager sets, a shorter term. 5-2 bars selling flavored ESDs containing nicotine outright, and creates a rebuttable presumption that any retailer holding four or more flavored ESDs, in any combination, possesses them with intent to sell.

The same section caps sales to any one customer at two nicotine-containing electronic smoking devices or four associated products, including refills, in any 24-hour period, and requires checking a valid government photo ID (or, for online sales, cross-referencing two non-marketing databases) before any sale. 5-3 backs these rules with a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per occurrence, presumptively assessed against the business entity rather than an individual employee, with a right to a Chapter 1-3 quasi-judicial hearing if timely appealed.