Newark
City of Newark Division of Licensing, Office of Central Licenses & Permits
In short
City of Newark Division of Licensing, Office of Central Licenses & Permits issues 3 permits we publish for Newark, last verified 2026-09-05. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail Business License | City of Newark Division of Licensing, Office of Central Licenses & Permits | $250 a year | annual — expires March 31 | 2026-09-05 |
| Building Contractor License | City of Newark Division of Licensing, Office of Central Licenses & Permits | Initial license $200 (plus $25 if a prior application was denied); biennial renewal $350; relicensing after revocation $200. | 2 years — expires biennially on November 30 | 2026-09-05 |
| Restaurant License | City of Newark Division of Licensing, Office of Central Licenses & Permits | Biennial license, cycle runs February 1 to January 31: an eatery with no seating is $400; a restaurant with 25 seats or fewer is $300; 26–50 seats is $500; more than 50 seats is $800; a 24-hour operation is $3,000; catering adds $100. Hospitals and charitable, religious or educational operators are exempt. | 2 years | 2026-09-05 |
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
Retail Business License
The live application page states $250/year (used here); the codified Chapter 8:36 fee table, retrieved separately through a read-proxy, states $500 for the same license with no visible amendment date on either page to settle which is current. Flagged for manual reconciliation.
Building Contractor License
Covers four separate license classes — General, Demolition, Moving, and Roofing/Siding Contractor. Chapter 8:21, read in full, carries no bond, surety or other financial-security requirement anywhere in its text — only the application, fee, character/business-responsibility standards, license classes and revocation provisions described above.
Restaurant License
Issued by the Division of Licensing, but requires a Department of Health and Community Wellness inspection and a Division of Fire sign-off as part of the same application. Retrieved via a read-proxy after ecode360.com returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Newark
- Phone
- (973) 733-3770
- Website
- www.newarknj.gov/
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.
- City of Newark — Building Contractor LicenceCity of Newark, Division of Licensing · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
- City of Newark — Restaurant Business LicenceCity of Newark, Division of Licensing · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
- City of Newark — Retail Business LicenseCity of Newark, Division of Licensing · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
- Newark Code of Ordinances chapter 8:12, Restaurants and Retail Sales and Service EstablishmentsCity of Newark (General Code/eCode360) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
- Newark Code of Ordinances chapter 8:21, Building ContractorsCity of Newark (General Code/eCode360) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
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