Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, License Department

Trader's License

A trader's license is required under Md. Bus. Reg. Art. §17-1803(a) for a person doing business as a trader or exhibitor in Maryland, applied for after first registering with the Comptroller's Central Registration Division and the State Department of Assessments and Taxation. For Montgomery County, the fee follows the statewide, value-based 21-tier schedule in §17-1807(c)(2) that applies in 'a county other than Baltimore City or Baltimore County,' running from $15 up to $800 by stock-in-trade value; Maryland law separately lets a county instead elect a flat $15 fee under §17-1806 and §17-1807(a)(2)-(3) by December 1 of a given year, so the statute's default value-based schedule is shown here, which is what applies unless a county makes that election. This record is scoped to retail-store only: §17-1803(d)(4) exempts, state-wide, a restaurant licensed under Subtitle 16 that generates 10% or less of its annual sales from nonfood items, so whether a given Montgomery County restaurant qualifies turns on that restaurant's own Subtitle 16 license and sales mix.