The purpose of business licensing and regulating certain types of businesses and events held within the town is to protect the health, safety and general welfare of those receiving goods and services, and to provide uniform regulations for the providers of goods and services. The provisions of this chapter are pursuant to authority granted cities and towns under Wyoming Statutes 15-1-103(a)(xiii).
TYPE OF BUSINESSES, ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS REQUIRED TO HAVE A BUSINESS APPLICATION:
Amusement:
A. Circuses and carnivals. The license fee for conducting a circus or carnival shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day. The permissible hours of operation for every circus, carnival or exhibition conducted within the town will be daily from eleven o'clock (11:00) A.M. to twelve o'clock (12:00) midnight.
Auctioneer. The license fee for conducting as an auctioneer shall be fifty dollars ($50.00). Applicants must also file with the town clerk a surety bond in favor of the town in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). Licensees will render true and strict accounts of sales to any person employing them; will not practice any fraud or deceit upon bidders or purchasers of property at any auction sale, or permit any person in their employ to practice any such fraud or deceit; and will pay all damages which may be sustained by any person by reason of any fraud, deceit, negligence or other wrongful act on the part of the licensee, his or her agent or employees in the conduct of any action or in the exercise of the calling of auctioneer. A liability insurance policy issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in the state which conforms to the above requirements may be permitted in lieu of a bond.
Body art establishments and operations:
A. The license fee for a body art establishment shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
B. The license fee for a temporary body art establishment shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per fourteen (14) day period or portion thereof.
Food service establishments (temporary vendors). The license fee for conducting a temporary food service establishment shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per year per location.
Temporary/transient merchants; door to door solicitors. The licensing fee for a temporary or transient merchant license for a fourteen (14) day period will be seventy five dollars ($75.00); the licensing fee for a comprehensive temporary or transient merchant license will be two hundred seventy fivedollars ($275.00) per year. Home maintenance solicitors must also file with the town clerk a liability insurance policy issued by an insurance company authorized to do business in the state which conforms to the above requirements and may be permitted in lieu of a bond. (Ord. 06-02-001, 4-4-2006)
Unless otherwise specified, the initial and renewal fee for every license and permit issued will be twenty five dollars ($25.00).
No fee will be refunded once the license or permit is issued.
For an application, please contact Town Hall at (307) 836-2335 or download the application here.