Business Licenses

Certain businesses in Livonia are required to obtain a license. The license fee differs depending on the type of business. The fee schedule is as follows:

Bakeries and bulk food establishments  
$25
Bakeries and Food Application (PDF)
Bowling alley
$75

Circus, show, or carnival
For a period of two weeks or less
Over two weeks (each additional day)

$250
$25

Dancehall or dance school
$25
Dry cleaning, pressing, or laundry
$25

Employment agency
$25
Employment Agency Application (PDF)
Firing range
$25

Gasoline service station
First pump
Each additional pump  

$20
$10

Gas Station Application (PDF)



Going out of business
$50

Handbill distributor
Business/company
Individual/employee

$100
$25

Ice cream vendor
(must have chauffeur’s license and food handler’s permit from Wayne County)
$25

Junk collectors and scavengers  
Firm/Company
Individual/employee (each)

$100
$25

Scavenger Application (PDF)

Kennels  ($25.00 + $75.00)
$100

Kiddie rides
$20

Lawn or landscaping
$10

Mechanical Amusement Device
Per device up to 5 in a single location
Per device for each additional 

$100
$50

Motel/Hotel (per unit)
$15Lodging Application (PDF)
Music device
$10

Pawnshop
$50

Pool/billiard room
First table 
Each additional table  

$25
$10

Precious metal/gems  
$50

Private swimming pool club  
$25

Produce merchant
Class A
Class B
Class C

$10
$25
$50

Refuse collector
First truck  
Each additional truck

$50
$20

Restaurant  
$25
Restaurant, Bakery, Banquet, and Other Food Establishment Application (PDF)
Itinerant restaurant (limited to 7-day period)  
$15

Secondhand motor vehicle and used car dealer  
$100

Secondhand merchandise dealer  
$50
Secondhand Merchant Application (PDF)
Skating or roller rink  
$25

Slaughterhouse (If fowl only and doing retail custom business)
$18
Snow Removal Business  
$10

Solicitor
Per month
Per year

$25
$100

Solicitor Application (PDF)
Sauna
$35

Theater (per seat)
 $.10

Transient merchant
Firm/Company
Individual/employee

$100
$25

Transient Merchant Application (PDF)
Tree service  
$10

Vending machine
First machine in a single location                    
Each additional machine for each location

$10
$25