Fulton County
Fulton County Police Department, License and Permit Unit (Alcohol Licensing)
In short
Fulton County Police Department, License and Permit Unit (Alcohol Licensing) issues 3 permits we publish for Fulton County, last verified 2026-10-03. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcoholic Beverage License — Temporaryonly if it applies to you | Fulton County Police Department, License and Permit Unit (Alcohol Licensing) | Temporary license fees, Code §6-3(c): distilled spirits for on-premises consumption $500; beer and wine package sales $200; beer and wine on-premises consumption $250; wholesaler's or distributor's license $750. No temporary license is available for distilled-spirits package sales. | temporary license; its term is set by the Fulton County Police Department at issuance | 2026-10-03 |
| Alcoholic Beverage License — Permanentonly if it applies to you | Fulton County Police Department, License and Permit Unit (Alcohol Licensing) | The permanent license fee is set by a schedule of license fees adopted by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under Code §6-208; no dollar figure is stated in the Code text or published on the county's site, so applicants should contact the Fulton County Police Department (404-613-5700) for the current amount. A separate special-event permit under Code §6-4 — maximum 7 days per event, maximum 6 permits per applicant per year, hours 9 a.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday and 12:30 p.m. to midnight on Sunday — uses the same board-adopted-schedule mechanism with no figure published. | not stated in the published Code text | 2026-10-03 |
| Mixed Drink / By-the-Drink Excise Taxonly if it applies to you | Fulton County Police Department, License and Permit Unit (Alcohol Licensing) | A tax of 3% of the purchase price of each alcoholic beverage sold by the drink for consumption on the premises, in the unincorporated area of Fulton County (the Fulton Industrial District and any remaining unincorporated pocket). | ongoing; the tax is collected per sale and remitted under the county's filing schedule | 2026-10-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Alcoholic Beverage License — Temporary
No alcoholic beverages may be manufactured, distributed, or sold by the package or by the drink in unincorporated Fulton County — meaning the Fulton Industrial District and any remaining unincorporated pocket — without a license granted under Fulton County Code §6-1. The Fulton County Police Department administers temporary licenses directly under §6-3(a): $500 for distilled spirits consumed on premises, $200 for beer and wine package sales, $250 for beer and wine consumed on premises, and $750 for a wholesaler's or distributor's license; a temporary license for distilled-spirits package sales does not exist under this section. This county license is required in addition to the State of Georgia's own alcohol permit from the Department of Revenue, Alcohol & Tobacco Division, which applies statewide regardless of municipality.
Alcoholic Beverage License — Permanent
A permanent alcoholic beverage license for unincorporated Fulton County (the Fulton Industrial District and any remaining unincorporated pocket) is granted by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under Code §6-208, which sets the fee through 'a schedule of license fees adopted by the board of commissioners' rather than a dollar figure printed in the Code itself; that schedule is not published on the county's website, so this requirement is recorded here with no dollar amount rather than a guessed one — contact the Fulton County Police Department, 404-613-5700, for the current fee. No license issues unless the site is zoned commercial, industrial, or office, with golf clubs allowed in an AG-1 agricultural district, under Code §6-210.
Mixed Drink / By-the-Drink Excise Tax
Every by-the-drink alcoholic beverage sale for on-premises consumption in unincorporated Fulton County — the Fulton Industrial District and any remaining unincorporated pocket — carries a 3% excise tax on the purchase price under Code §6-137, collected by the licensee alongside the alcohol-license obligations recorded above. This tax applies only within the county's own licensing reach; a restaurant or bar inside any of the 15 incorporated cities, including Atlanta, instead falls under that city's own mixed-drink tax ordinance rather than this county-level one.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Fulton County
- Phone
- 404-613-5700
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Fulton County Code of Laws, Chapter 6 — Alcoholic BeveragesFulton County / Municode · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
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