Licensing Permitting Information

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Application Forms

Checklists for licenses and permits Application fees

Other links

Home Taxi/limo information City ordinances Missouri liquor law Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control Alcohol Beverage Advisory  Group Liquor Control Board of Review (and other public hearings) KCPD guide for nightlife establishments

In addition to these forms and instructions, these checklists provide detailed requirements for the licenses.

• Adult entertainment
• Amusement devices
• Amusement events
• Catering
• Dance halls
• Day labor
• Employee liquor permit
• Liquor licenses (all types)
• Metal recycling
• Non-profit applications
• Requests for records
• Short-term loan establishment
• Sidewalk café
• Vehicles for hire (taxis, livery, etc)
• Waste tires

Note: Regulated Industries now has the ability to accept credit cards for all transactions!

Adult entertainment

• Application for adult live entertainment businesses and adult businesses
• Application for adult entertainer permit

• Amusement license application (any exhibitor who maintains for operation coin-operated amusement devices, whether or not such devices are coin-operated, must have a license. An exhibitor means any person who exhibits or maintains for operation one or more coin-operated amusement devices within the city)

• General amusement license application (including amusement parlors/halls, billiard/pool halls, bowling alleys, cabarets/floor shows, carnivals, commercial amusement places, dance halls with monthly/yearly permits, haunted houses, penny/picture arcades, recreation halls, rodeos, shooting galleries, skating rinks, and street fairs)

• Catering permit application 
• Annual catering notification – event reporting form
• Special event application

Miscellaneous applications

• Dance hall - daily permit
• Day labor application
• Short-term loan establishment

Employee liquor permit

• Application for employee liquor permit