Business Licensing & Operations in Las Vegas, NV (2026)

Las Vegas Municipal Code § 6.06A.015

No person shall engage in the business of operating an adult emporium or a bookstore without first obtaining a license from the Director. Licensed grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores, and gift shops with a newsstand selling periodicals, magazines and newspapers, incidental to the sale of food and drug items, are exempted from the provisions of this Chapter.

LVMC §§ 6.52.040, 6.52.050, 6.52.090(F)

No person shall engage in, conduct or carry on...the operation of a massage establishment, or the performance of massage therapy as a massage therapist or a massage establishment licensee practitioner, without first obtaining and thereafter maintaining a valid unexpired license for that activity pursuant to this Title. A licensed medical professional providing medical massage therapy or an area...

LVMC 6.04.080; 6.02.060, 6.02.080, 6.02.085, 6.02.090, 6.02.110; 6.04.010; 1.24.010, 1.24.020

Businesses within the following licensing categories shall pay an annual license fee of five hundred dollars: ... Tattoo and body art, which is any business that places indelible marks and figures upon the body by inserting pigment under the skin or by the production of scars, or that pierces the skin for the purpose of inserting rings, loops, studs or other implements.

LVMC 6.82.020(A)

No person shall engage in business as a smoke or vape shop within the City without first obtaining a business license pursuant to this Chapter. The license required by this Chapter shall be a privileged license subject to the provisions of LVMC Chapter 6.06.

LVMC 6.74.030

No person shall: (A)Engage in the business of a secondhand dealer without first obtaining and thereafter maintaining a valid unexpired license pursuant to this Code; or(B)Advertise as a secondhand dealer unless the person holds a valid license to engage in such business. The number of the dealer's business license shall be included in all of his advertising material.

LVMC 6.60.030; 6.60.050

No person shall conduct or transact a pawnbroking or auto-pawnbrokering business without a valid unexpired license as provided in this Code. ...there are twenty-four pawnbroker licenses within the City...Following the issuance of the twenty-fifth pawnbroker license...no additional new pawnbroker license may be granted...until the population of the City achieves or exceeds seven hundred thousand.

Las Vegas Unified Development Code §§ 19.12.070, 19.16.180(G)(1)(e)(i)

The parking, storage or repair of vehicles as an accessory use in residential zoning districts ... motor vehicles ... may be parked, stored or repaired on any property in a residential district, provided the same is accessory and incidental to the use of the property for residential purposes and does not constitute a nuisance, health or fire hazard ... No vehicle may be repaired unless it is ow...

LVMC 6.04.070

Businesses within the following licensing categories shall pay an annual license fee of three hundred dollars: ... Automobile towing service, which is a business engaged in towing motor vehicles. The category does not include any service station or garage which, as an incident to providing repairs, tows automobiles to its place of business to make such repairs.