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City of Bangor, City Clerk's Office

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City of Bangor, City Clerk's Office issues 4 permits we publish for Bangor, last verified 2026-09-12. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Victualer's License (Food Service Establishment)City of Bangor, City Clerk's Office$248–$684 annual, banded by size: $248.00 for an establishment with no tables, $427.00 up to 2,000 sq ft, $684.00 over 2,000 sq ftannual2026-09-12
Lunch Wagon License (Food Truck)City of Bangor, City Clerk's Office$85–$297 per license, banded by duration: $85.00 up to 3 days, $205.00 up to 3 months, $297.00 over 3 months up to 1 yearup to 1 year, per the duration band selected2026-09-12
Municipal Business License — City of Bangor Position (Retail, Auto Repair, Veterinary, Fitness, Salon)only if it applies to youCity of Bangor, City Clerk's OfficeNo feenot applicable2026-09-12
Caterer's Licenseonly if it applies to youCity of Bangor, City Clerk's Office$34 annualannual2026-09-12

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

Victualer's License (Food Service Establishment)

This Victualer's License is the City's own license, paid to the City Clerk in addition to the State of Maine Eating Establishment License listed on this site's Maine state page. Bangor's Chapter 124 names the City's Code Enforcement Division as the Maine Food Code's local 'regulatory authority,' but a municipality inspects for state licensing only once the Maine CDC has authorized it under 22 M.R.S.A. § 2499 and a memorandum of understanding, and the State's flat $100.00 fee applies only 'When the Department issues a license on the basis of a municipal inspection' (10-144 CMR Ch. 201, § 3). The Maine CDC Health Inspection Program's current Health Inspections page lists municipal inspectors only for Portland, Lewiston and South Portland, and its District Health Inspector Territories List (dated 3-9-2026) assigns Bangor to a state district health inspector, so on the State's own records a Bangor restaurant is inspected by the State and pays the ordinary state license fee. Under § 295-1 a license is not issued unless the City Clerk receives affirmation from the Code Enforcement Officer that the operation meets zoning and site plan requirements and from the City Fire Inspectors that it meets fire and safety codes. A coffee shop preparing and serving food or drink to the public is the plain-language fit for this license alongside a restaurant.

Lunch Wagon License (Food Truck)

Bangor's real, standing local mobile food vendor license, issued by the City Clerk under the state's own lunch-wagon enabling statute. The current Schedule of Fees' own Parks and Recreation section independently confirms this is the general mechanism: 'All commercial vendors selling food or beverages must also obtain a lunch wagon license through the City Clerk.' Cooking equipment aboard the vehicle must meet Chapter 116's fire-code standards for mobile food concessions (spark arresters, fire extinguishers, and similar requirements), verified before licensing. 30-A M.R.S. § 3931(2) itself states that 'no other license may be required to operate a lunch wagon' once this one issues, on top of whatever separate State of Maine mobile food unit license also applies (listed on this site's Maine state page).

Municipal Business License — City of Bangor Position (Retail, Auto Repair, Veterinary, Fitness, Salon)

No fee applies. Under Code of Ordinances § 85-4, license fees are those prescribed in the City's Schedule of Fees, whose Business Licensing section (revised 06/30/2026) lists Amusement Devices, Automobile Recycling, Beano, Bowling, Bottle Clubs/BYOB, Carnivals, Catering, Circuses, Closing-Out Sales, Dance Halls, Dealers in Explosives/Old Gold, Flammable Liquids, Food Sovereignty, Games of Chance, Industrial Metals/Junkyards, Innkeepers, Liquor, Lunch Wagons, Marijuana establishments, Mobile Home Parks, Pawnbrokers, Precious Metals, Roller-Skating Rinks, Secondhand Dealers, Special Amusements, Tank Farms, Taverns, Taxicabs, Theaters, Transient Sellers, and Victualers — and names no category for an ordinary retail store, auto repair shop, veterinary practice, fitness studio, or hair/nail salon. 'Automobile Recycling' ($85.00) is a real, separate category, but it covers a junkyard/salvage operation under 30-A M.R.S.A. § 3756, not an ordinary automotive repair garage. Each of these industries' Bangor-specific obligations are instead the same commercial building permit, Certificate of Occupancy, sign permit (where applicable), zoning verification, and site plan/conditional use approvals listed elsewhere here.

Caterer's License

A genuinely separate, additional license from the standing Victualer's License recorded above, required specifically for catering activity under Chapter 124, § 124-2(B). Applies conditionally, only to a restaurant business that also caters, not to every fixed-premises eating establishment.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Bangor
Phone
(207) 992-4220

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.

  1. 22 Maine Revised Statutes § 2499 (Municipal inspections) — the delegated-municipality mechanism and the $100 state fee that replaces the standard state license fee once a municipality is delegatedMaine Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
  2. 30-A Maine Revised Statutes § 3931 (Lunch wagons) — the municipal licensing authority Bangor's own Lunch Wagon license is issued underMaine Legislature · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
  3. Business Licenses — the City Clerk's own current page describing licensed activities and linking application forms and the Schedule of FeesCity of Bangor, Maine, City Clerk's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
  4. City of Bangor Code of Ordinances, Chapter 116 (Fire Prevention) — adopting NFPA 1 (Uniform Fire Code) and setting cooking-equipment standards for fixed, mobile, and temporary food concessionsCity of Bangor, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  5. City of Bangor Code of Ordinances, Chapter 124 (Food Establishments) — § 124-2 (Catering establishments) and § 124-3 (Eating and lodging places), designating the City's Code Enforcement Division as the Maine Food Code's 'regulatory authority'City of Bangor, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  6. City of Bangor Code of Ordinances, Chapter 295 (Victualers) — § 295-1 (License required) and § 295-2 (Procedure and fees)City of Bangor, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  7. City of Bangor Code of Ordinances, Chapter 85 (Business Licenses) — §§ 85-1 through 85-11, the enumerated licensing requirement and licensed-activity fee tableCity of Bangor, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  8. City of Bangor Schedule of Fees (CO 16-123, adopted March 28, 2016, revised 06/30/2026) — the complete, current, citywide itemized fee schedule covering business licensing, Code (building/sign/zoning/appeals), and Planning feesCity of Bangor, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
  9. District Health Inspector Territories List (spreadsheet dated 3-9-2026), linked from the Health Inspections page — assigns BANGOR (MCD 19020) to state district G and a state district health inspectorMaine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Inspection Program · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
  10. Health Inspections — the Maine CDC Health Inspection Program's own current page, listing its district Health Inspectors and, separately, 'Municipal Inspectors' for Portland, Lewiston and South Portland onlyMaine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Inspection Program · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
  11. State of Maine Health Inspection Program Administration Rule (10-144 CMR Ch. 201, eff. 6-3-2024), Section 3 (Delegation of Inspection Duties to Municipalities) and Table 2 (Delegated Municipality Licenses, flat $100.00 fee per license type)Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12

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