Business Licensing & Operations in Springfield, MO (2026)

Springfield Land Development Code § 36-460

An adult motion picture theater, adult store, or cabaret, as defined in section 36-301, definitions, may locate only in GR, HC, CS, RI, LI, GM and HM zoning districts. Such uses are prohibited within the area circumscribed by a circle which has a radius of 2,000 feet from any residential zoning district, school, park, or church, or any legally platted subdivision in which 75 percent or more of ...

Springfield City Code § 70-593

No person shall engage in the practice of massage within the city unless such person has first been issued a massage technician license by the director of finance of the city, and unless such license remains in effect in conformity with this article. The director of finance may issue a massage technician license to graduates of a state board of therapeutic massage licensed school of massage, up...

Springfield City Code § 58-1058

Within 60 days of the effective date of this article, it shall be unlawful for any person to barter, sell, cause to be sold, distribute, furnish or permit the sale or distribution of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products unless that person has obtained a permit to sale or distribute such products from the city. No fee shall be assessed for such permit unless otherwi...

Springfield City Code § 90-2(a)

Every person regularly engaged in or conducting business for the purchase, sale, barter, exchange, recycling, reselling or pawn of antiques, coins, any metal including, but not limited to, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, brass, bronze and platinum, gems and semiprecious stones, watches, firearms, power tools, hand tools, computers, electronic equipment, cameras and camera equipment, including b...

Springfield City Code §§ 70-84(98), 90-3.5(2)

[§ 70-84(98)] Pawnbrokers: An investigation fee of $500.00 for a new applicant or a $250.00 fee for a second or additional license to an applicant already licensed for a separate location. The annual renewal fee is $500.00. [§ 90-3.5(2)] No person or entity licensed as a pawnbroker by the city shall be open for business or receive any article of personal property...pawned, pledged, taken in bar...

Springfield Land Development Code § 36-451(5)(b)

(5)Particular home occupations prohibited. Permitted home occupations shall not in any event be deemed to include the following types of activities and uses:(a)Animal hospitals, stables, or kennels.(b)Auto repairing and painting.(c)Boarding and lodging houses, unless specifically permitted by the district regulations.(d)Dancing schools and studios.(e)Dispatching of transfer and moving vans.(f)F...

Springfield City Code § 118-171(a) (Ch. 118, Art. III, Div. 2 - Rotation System)

Any police officer making an accident or disabled vehicle investigation or otherwise in a position to recommend a tow truck company to any person shall absolutely refrain from making any such recommendation. The prescribed procedure shall be to ask the owner or person in charge of the motor vehicle to designate which tow truck service he desires or where he wants the motor vehicle to be towed.