Business License Descriptions

CLASS 1 - General Business License at Permanent Location

Businesses, non-profit organizations, trades, occupations, and professions dealing in retail sale or trade of merchandise and/or services at a permanent business location.

CLASS 2 - Contractual Services Business License

Occupations, tradesman, or contractors dealing in contractual services or installation of merchandise or materials at, in or on properties not the principal location, or base of operation, of the contractor or installer. State registration is a prerequisite to issuance of a business license under this classification.

CLASS 3 - Home Occupation Business License

Businesses that operate out of a person's home. This definition does not include businesses that travel from location to location. 

CLASS 4 - Security Services or Solicitors

Merchant police, security services, and solicitors. 

CLASS 5 - Peddlers and Transient Merchants (six months)

Peddlers and transient (temporary) merchants set up within the City limits (i.e. produce vendors, etc.). These vendors are not operating under a master vendor. 

CLASS 6 - Rhododendron Festival Peddlers & Transient Merchants

For the purpose of the Rhododendron Festival, the following regulations shall be in effect from 12:00 a.m. on Thursday to 12:00 a.m. on Monday, only during the Rhododendron Festival. The purpose of this section is to exempt Festival merchants from the lengthy application process and provide a lawful means of doing business during the Festival.

CLASS 7- Master Vendors

A business activity organizer, property owner, or other responsible party wishing to establish more than one vendor at a single location shall first apply for a master vendor license with the City.

CLASS 7 - Vendors

Vendors participating under an approved Master Vendor License.

CLASS 8 - Used Merchandise Dealer

Any person, or employee of any person who, as all or part of a business:

• Purchases or sells used articles, including but not limited to, the sale of used metals and jewelry, guns, and electronic equipment.
• Wrecks, dismantles or disassembles a used vehicle and offers for sale the components thereof; or
• Lends money on security of used articles. This does not include a person dealing exclusively in whole automobiles, books, sports trading cards, clothing, furniture, electrical appliances, or farm implements and machinery; a person who purchases or sells used articles for four days or less in a six month period, or a nonprofit corporation or association that sells or otherwise exchanges only donated articles.

CLASS 9 - Marijuana Facilities

All medical marijuana facilities shall be permanent in nature. The facility must be located in a permanent building and may not locate in a trailer, cargo container, or motor vehicle. The facility may not be located in a home, residential unit, or be occupied by another use aside from medical marijuana facility. Such business application shall not be allowed to apply for temporary status.

TAXI INDIVIDUAL DRIVER LICENSE

Application for taxicab driver permits shall be made to the City and accompanied by the payment of a non-refundable original application investigation fee as set by Council Resolution. Applications shall contain the name, address, date of birth, Oregon driver's license number of the applicant, and any other relevant information requested by the City, and shall be accompanied by a current photograph of the applicant which shall be provided upon request. Each applicant shall provide satisfactory proof to the City that the applicant possesses the appropriate valid Oregon driver's license. Each applicant shall be fingerprinted.

ANNUAL RESTAURANT PARKING CAFE PERMIT

The City of Florence has created the Restaurant Parking Café Permit Program (FCC 8-2-4-1-C) to allow restaurants to expand their existing Sidewalk Café into the parking right-of-way to provide more outdoor seating for their restaurant patrons. This program is in coordination with the City of Florence’s current Sidewalk Café program (FCC 8-2-4-1-B), which permits restaurant seating in the pedestrian right-of-way. Restaurants who wish to participate in the Parking Café program must have a current Sidewalk Café permit and business license. The program will begin on May 1, and expire on October 30, weather permitting. Restaurants may apply for a permit before May 1; however, barriers will not be placed by the City of Florence’s Public Works department until after May 1.

ANNUAL SIDEWALK CAFE PERMIT

A Sidewalk Café Permit is required per FCC 8-2-4-1-D, to conduct sales of food or beverages along a City right-of-way. All licenses expire on December 31^st of each calendar year. Restaurant owners must apply for a new sidewalk café permit for every calendar year they wish to operate restaurant sales along the City right-of-way.

MARIJUANA HANDLERS LICENSE

In addition to the requirements under ORS 475.314 and Oregon Health Authority rules, all employees, owners, and volunteers who handle useable marijuana within a facility must undergo a criminal background check conducted by the City. The background checks must be requested before the employee, owner, or volunteer handles useable marijuana.