Lewiston

City of Lewiston, City Clerk's Department

In short

City of Lewiston, City Clerk's Department issues 4 permits we publish for Lewiston, 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
Permit	Issuing agency	Fee	Renews	Last checked
Temporary/Special Event Food Service Establishment Licenseonly if it applies to you	City of Lewiston, City Clerk's Department	$50–$100 per temporary license: Class F, operating up to 30 days, $65.00; Class G, operating up to three days, $50.00; Class H, a prepackaged food vendor selling within City limits at a special event, fair, or festival for up to one year, $100.00	one-time or up to one year, per Class F/G/H definition	2026-09-12
Municipal Business License — City of Lewiston position (enumerated categories only)only if it applies to you	City of Lewiston, City Clerk's Department	No fee	not applicable	2026-09-12
Food Service Establishment License	City of Lewiston, City Clerk's Department	$150–$575 annual, banded by the class of State of Maine liquor license held and, for Class A, by square footage: Class A (spirituous, vinous and malt) $350.00 up to 3,000 sq ft, $465.00 from 3,001-6,000 sq ft, $575.00 above that; Class B (malt and vinous) $200.00; Class C (malt only) $200.00; Class D (no liquor) $150.00; Class E (patrons may bring their own liquor) $355.00; expires in April	annual — expires in April	2026-09-12
Mobile Unit (Food Truck) License	City of Lewiston, City Clerk's Department	$100 per license year (license year runs through April 30 annually)	annual — City's own current listings show licenses running through April 30	2026-09-12

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

Temporary/Special Event Food Service Establishment License

Covers a food service establishment or prepackaged-food vendor operating only temporarily at a fair, festival, or special event — a separate, shorter-duration credential from the standing annual Food Service Establishment License or the standing Mobile Unit license listed separately, required in addition to them for one-off events outside the normal course of business.

Municipal Business License — City of Lewiston position (enumerated categories only)

Code of Ordinances Chapter 22's enumerated list of licensable activities — Adult Amusement Devices, Adult Entertainment, Automobile Graveyards/Junkyards, Flea Markets, Food Service Establishments/Mobile Units, Junk Collectors/Pawnbrokers/Secondhand Dealers, Mobile Home Parks, Peddlers, Sale of Personal Property from Residential Premises, Solicitations, Tattooing, Massage Establishments/Therapists, Outpatient Addiction Treatment Clinics, Adult Use and Medical Marijuana, Homeless Shelters, Lodging Houses, and Syringe Services Programs — and the City Clerk's Business Licenses page, which lists the 40-plus license types the City issues, name no license for an ordinary retail store, auto repair shop, veterinary practice, fitness studio, hair/nail salon or child care business, so this record carries no fee. Massage Establishment and Massage Therapist are locally licensed by name ($110.00 application/$195.00 license fee), but hair/nail salons are licensed only by Maine's state Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation (recorded at the state layer). Each of these industries' Lewiston-specific obligations are instead the commercial building permit, Certificate of Occupancy, sign permit (where applicable), and Development Review/Board of Appeals approvals listed separately.

Food Service Establishment License

This is Lewiston's own local fee, separate from and in addition to the State of Maine's Eating Establishment License (banded $205.00-$300.00 by seating, recorded at the state layer): the City's own Restaurant Inspection Reports page states that establishments the City inspects remain 'licensed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)', so, unlike in Portland, Maine, the state fee continues to apply on top of this local charge. Lewiston bands its own fee by liquor-license class and square footage rather than by food-prep type: Class D (no liquor) at $150.00 is the plain-language fit for an ordinary restaurant or coffee shop holding no state liquor license; an establishment that also holds a state liquor license instead falls into the higher Class A/B/C bands recorded above. At least one employee must be a Certified Food Protection Manager per § 22-151.

Mobile Unit (Food Truck) License

The City's Business License Applications fee schedule (updated 4/21/2026) prices this license on its 'Roving diner' line at $100.00; the schedule has no separate 'Mobile Unit' line. Before Ordinance No. 20-04 (effective 3/26/2020), Chapter 22's Division 2 was titled 'Special Food Handlers and Roving Diners' and defined 'roving diner' as any vehicle, food truck, trailer, cart, wagon, or conveyance capable of being moved from its serving site, from which food is sold at retail; that ordinance renamed the category 'mobile unit' throughout the division. The live Chapter 22 text uses 'Mobile unit' and its § 22-151 history line cites 'Ord. No. 20-04, 03-26-20', and the City Clerk's Business Licenses page lists 'Mobile Unit' among its license types. The $100.00 'Roving diner' figure is therefore the Mobile Unit license fee. The City's Food Trucks in Lewiston page sets out the dual State/City license requirement and the April 30 license expiry.

Contact

Jurisdiction: Lewiston
Phone: (207) 513-3124
Website: www.lewistonmaine.gov/121/Business-Licenses

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.

Business Licenses — the City Clerk's own current page describing the 40+ enumerated license categories and linking the fee scheduleCity of Lewiston, Maine, City Clerk's Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
City Business License Applications — Fees, Penalties and Inspection & Approval Schedule, updated 4/21/2026 — the complete itemized fee table for every enumerated Chapter 22 licenseCity of Lewiston, Maine, City Clerk's Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
City of Lewiston Code of Ordinances, Chapter 22 (Businesses) — all eighteen articles, including Article II (general licensing), Article VI (Food Service Establishments/Mobile Units), Article XIII (Massage), Article XV (Marijuana/home occupation Use Permit), and Article XVII (Lodging Houses, citing 22 M.R.S.A. § 2499)City of Lewiston, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
Definitions from Lewiston City Code of Ordinances and/or Maine State Statutes — the City Clerk's own current business-license term definitions, including 'Mobile unit' and 'Group care facility'City of Lewiston, Maine, City Clerk's Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
Food Trucks in Lewiston — the City's own current page confirming the dual State/City mobile unit license requirement, the 100-foot separation rule, and current license expiration datesCity of Lewiston, Maine · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12

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