Business Licensing & Operations in Minnesota (2026)

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, adult establishments and high impact adult accessory uses are prohibited in…

In the City of Blaine, operating an adult bookstore, cabaret, massage parlor, or other principal or accessory adult use…

Blue Earth County Code Sec. 4-91 confines adult uses like adult bookstores, cabarets and adult motion picture theaters…

Any establishment operating an adult entertainment business in Brooklyn Park must obtain a city license under Chapter…

Adult uses in unincorporated Carver County need both a county adult use license and a conditional use permit under Code…

In the City of Coon Rapids, no adult oriented business may open without a license from the City Clerk's office, and…

Duluth requires a city license to operate an adult bookstore or adult entertainment establishment and bars them within…

Eagan confines adult establishments to Limited Industrial, Community Shopping Center, General Business, and Business…

City Code Section 5.77 requires a City license before anyone may own or operate a sexually oriented business in Eden…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, operating any sexually oriented business, adult bookstore, adult theater, escort…

Maple Grove requires sexually oriented businesses to be licensed and sited at least 750 feet from schools, day cares…

Sexually oriented uses in Minneapolis are confined to the DT1 and DT2 downtown districts, must sit 1,000 feet from…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota (Hennepin County), no one can own or operate a sexually-oriented business without…

Olmsted County zoning permits adult entertainment businesses only in the Highway Commercial (HC) district, one of the…

Any sexually oriented business in the City of Plymouth, from an adult bookstore to an escort agency, needs a City…

Rochester requires separate city licenses before anyone operates a companionship establishment, escort service or…

Saint Paul limits adult massage parlors to one adult use per building under Legislative Code Chapter 412A, requires a…

Stearns County confines principal adult-use businesses to the Industrial district and requires them to sit at least…

Woodbury confines principal adult uses to the FD-3 freeway special impact district under a special use permit, keeping…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, operating a massage therapy business requires a city license, and each massage…

In the City of Blaine, providing massage for pay requires two licenses under City Code § 22-299: a therapeutic massage…

In the City of Coon Rapids, no one may operate a massage business or work as a massage therapist without a separate…

No one may operate a massage establishment in the City of Duluth without a license for each location, and every massage…

Operating a massage therapy establishment in the City of Eagan requires a city license under Eagan City Code § 6.39…

In the City of Eden Prairie, anyone operating a massage business or practicing as a massage therapist for pay must…

Maple Grove requires both a business license for any massage establishment and a separate personal service license for…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota, no one can operate a massage business without a current city license. The license…

In the City of Plymouth, no one may run a massage business or practice massage on the public without two separate City…

Woodbury requires both a massage therapy business license and an individual massage therapist license, with 500 hours…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, both individual massage therapists and the businesses that employ them, called…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no person may operate a massage therapy center, alone or alongside another…

Minneapolis requires a city license to operate any massage and bodywork establishment, with set hours, location limits…

Rochester requires two separate city licenses for massage therapy: a massage therapist license for the person doing the…

Saint Paul requires a Class A license for commercial massage or bodywork centers and a Class B license for home-based…

Woodbury will not license a tattoo or body-piercing operation inside a residential dwelling: City Code § 24-263(e)(7)…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota, no one can maintain, own or operate a body art establishment, including tattoo…

Anoka County's Body Art Ordinance requires a separate establishment license for every tattoo and piercing shop and an…

The City of Blaine has no standalone tattoo-shop licensing chapter; instead, City Code § 100-2 defines 'tattoo…

The City of Brooklyn Park licenses tattoo and body piercing shops through its Health Authority under Chapter 123…

Eagan requires every tattoo, body-piercing, and body-art studio to hold a body art establishment license issued by the…

Hennepin County requires a Health Authority license before anyone can own, operate, or work in a body art establishment…

Minneapolis requires a body art establishment license before any shop can offer tattooing, piercing, or related…

Plymouth caps new tobacco and vape retail licenses at zero under City Code Section 1150.03, so only businesses licensed…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, in Dakota County, no one can sell or offer to sell tobacco, tobacco products or…

In the City of Blaine, no store may sell tobacco, vape, or nicotine delivery products without a city license under…

No one may manufacture, sell, exchange, barter or keep tobacco or tobacco related devices, including electronic…

Section 5.35 requires a City license before selling any tobacco-related product at retail, bars issuance to movable or…

Hennepin County requires any retailer selling tobacco, e-cigarettes or nicotine products to hold a county license first.

Selling vapes or e-cigarettes in Minneapolis requires a tobacco dealer's license under Chapter 281, and new tobacco…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota (Hennepin County), selling or giving away any tobacco-related product at retail…

Any retail establishment in Olmsted County that sells tobacco, e-cigarettes, vape products or related devices must…

St. Louis County Ordinance No. 51 makes it unlawful to sell tobacco, tobacco-related devices, or run compliance checks…

Stearns County requires a county license before anyone can retail sell tobacco outside of cities and towns that already…

Washington County is the tobacco retail licensing authority for towns and cities that have not adopted their own…

Woodbury requires every retailer selling tobacco, tobacco products, or nicotine or lobelia delivery devices, including…

Anoka County requires a county tobacco license before anyone can sell tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco-related…

Blue Earth County Code Sec. 4-126 requires anyone selling tobacco, tobacco products or tobacco-related devices to hold…

Brooklyn Park treats vapes and e-cigarettes as "licensed products" under its tobacco chapter, so any retailer selling…

No one may sell or offer to sell tobacco, tobacco products, or tobacco related devices, a category that expressly…

In the City of Coon Rapids, no one may sell tobacco, tobacco products, tobacco-related devices, or electronic delivery…

Retailers selling tobacco, tobacco products, or vaping devices in the City of Eagan must first obtain a license under…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, any retailer selling tobacco, tobacco products or electronic delivery devices and…

Any business in Maple Grove, Minnesota (Hennepin County) selling tobacco, tobacco-related devices, e-cigarettes, or…

Selling any tobacco, vape, or nicotine product at retail in Saint Paul requires a city license under Legislative Code §…

In the City of Duluth, a secondhand dealer who buys or sells items containing gold, silver or platinum must hold a…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, anyone buying secondhand items containing gold, silver or platinum, such as…

Anyone buying, consigning, or reselling secondhand goods in Minneapolis must hold a secondhand goods dealer license…

In the City of Minnetonka, Hennepin County, Minnesota, a secondhand dealer license covers businesses that buy or take…

In the City of Plymouth, anyone who buys, pawns, or resells previously used personal property must hold a City…

Saint Paul secondhand and antique dealers need a city license under § 355.01(a) before buying or selling used goods…

Woodbury licenses precious metal dealers, those buying secondhand items containing gold, silver, or platinum, through…

Anyone doing business as a secondhand or antique dealer in the City of Coon Rapids needs a license under City Code §…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, in Dakota County, no person can carry on business as a pawnbroker or precious…

In the City of Blaine, no person, partnership, company, or corporation may run a pawn shop without a license from the…

The City of Coon Rapids caps pawnbroker licenses at two citywide under City Code § 5-2414(2)(c), restricts pawnshops to…

In the City of Duluth, no one may operate as a pawnbroker without a license from the city clerk under Duluth…

Anyone running a pawnshop in the City of Eagan needs a city license under Eagan City Code § 6.45. Applicants post a…

In the City of Eden Prairie, no one may operate as a pawnbroker or precious metal dealer without a City license under…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, no person may operate as a pawnbroker without a license issued under City Code…

Maple Grove requires every pawnbroker to hold a location-specific city license, post a $5,000 bond, stay 750 feet from…

Minneapolis pawnbrokers need a police-issued Chapter 324 license, a $5,000 bond, and daily electronic transaction…

In the City of Minnetonka, Hennepin County, Minnesota, no one can operate as a pawnbroker, precious metal dealer, or…

Every pawnbroker doing business in the City of Plymouth needs a City license under Code Section 1160.03, backed by a…

Running a pawnshop in Saint Paul requires a city pawnbroker license under Legislative Code § 344.01, plus a $5,000…

Woodbury requires a police-issued pawnbroker license, a $1,500 investigation deposit, daily photograph or video ID of…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, nobody may operate, or hold themselves out, as a pawnbroker without first obtaining a…

No one may operate as a pawnbroker in Rochester, or hold themselves out as one, without a pawnbroker license from the…

In the City of Blaine, Sec. 129-10(d)(1) prohibits auto repair or body shop work as a home occupation in every zoning…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, a home-based repair business can only fix appliances or goods small enough for one person…

Coon Rapids flatly bans motor vehicle repair, maintenance, service, or sale as a home occupation, along with body…

Duluth flatly bars motor vehicle repair as a home occupation. Unified Development Chapter § 50-20.5.G.10 prohibits any…

In the City of Eagan, home occupations cannot involve any activity inside a detached or attached garage or accessory…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, a home occupation cannot include repair service or manufacturing that needs…

Minneapolis explicitly bans motor vehicle repair, service, or painting as a home occupation citywide, along with…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota, repair, service and painting of motor vehicles is on the list of businesses…

Plymouth flatly prohibits auto repair as a home occupation for any vehicle that isn't registered to a resident of the…

Running an auto repair shop out of a Woodbury home is flatly illegal: City Code § 24-263(e)(3) lists 'Repair shop of…

A home business in Eden Prairie, Minnesota cannot turn into an auto repair shop. City Code Section 11.65 caps home…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, residents in the R-1, R-2 and R-3 districts can repair and maintain motor…

Stearns County lets a resident run motor vehicle repair out of their home in agricultural districts, but only under…

In the City of Duluth, no company may offer emergency wrecker service without a city license under Duluth Legislative…

In the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota, a vehicle towing business needs a conditional use permit in the I-1 Industrial…

In the City of Plymouth, only a City-contracted towing contractor may impound vehicles ordered removed by police under…

Saint Paul requires every wrecker or tow truck operator to hold a DSI-issued license under Chapter 361, post a $10,000…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, the City Council designates one or more official towing contractors by motion…

Lakeville City Code § 6-1-4 lets the police chief have any vehicle parked in violation of the city's parking rules…

Minneapolis requires a Class A license, a $10,000 surety bond, and liability insurance before any company can tow a…

Woodbury contracts with private towing companies rather than running its own impound lot. City Code § 15-32 requires…