Albuquerque
City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section
In short
City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section issues 4 permits we publish for Albuquerque, last verified 2026-09-11. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salon/Barbershop-Specific Municipal License (not found)only if it applies to you | City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-11 |
| Business License | City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section | $36.75 annual, per location | annual — renews each year; renewal must be filed no later than 10 days before the current license's expiration date (renewal may be initiated up to 90 days early) | 2026-09-11 |
| Auto Repair-Specific Municipal License (not found)only if it applies to you | City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-11 |
| Business License — Childcare Facility Fee Exemptiononly if it applies to you | City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Business Licensing Section | No fee | annual — same renewal cycle as the general Business License | 2026-09-11 |
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
Salon/Barbershop-Specific Municipal License (not found)
No fee applies — the Business License Ordinance's own FAQ and summary pages and the Planning Department's fee schedules list no additional salon- or barbershop-specific municipal product beyond the general Business License and its Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee, both recorded above. New Mexico's own Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists establishment license, recorded at the state layer, remains the real trade-specific credential for this industry.
Business License
Effective July 1, 2025, this Business License replaced the City's former 'Business Registration' — Council Bill O-24-60 repealed the old ordinance specifically to add teeth: the prior registration's only penalty was a one-time $10 late fee (still the figure shown on the Planning Department's own General Fee Schedule PDF, last updated 1/17/2025 — a snapshot of the outgoing regime rather than the current one), while the License carries a $10-per-calendar-day delinquency fee and a $100/day civil fine for operating without one. The fee itself started at $35 when the ordinance took effect, but the ordinance allows the City to raise it up to 5% a year; the City's own FAQ page states the first such increase takes effect July 1, 2026, bringing the fee to $36.75 — the figure recorded here, since that date has passed. A business operating more than one location needs a separate license and fee for each. Applicants must submit a current New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department registration certificate showing the physical business address, and zoning approval is required before a license issues. A separate, identically-named Business License requirement applies to childcare facilities but with the fee itself waived (recorded separately below), and a separate Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee (also recorded separately below) applies on top of this license fee for most commercial applicants.
Auto Repair-Specific Municipal License (not found)
No fee applies — the same sources that list no salon-specific product list none for auto repair. Albuquerque Fire Rescue's Chapter 83 operational-permit table (Table 8302.5-A) names no 'Repair Garage' or comparable auto-repair-specific line item, unlike some other cities' fire codes researched in this project; a shop's flammable/combustible-liquid handling or hot-work activity could still individually trigger the table's generic Flammable and Combustible Liquids ($100), Hot Work Operation ($100), or Liquid- or Gas-Fueled Vehicles ($60) categories if applicable, but no permit named for the auto-repair industry itself exists.
Business License — Childcare Facility Fee Exemption
A commercial childcare facility already licensed by the State of New Mexico (i.e., holding the ECECD Child Care License recorded at the state layer) is exempt from the City's Business License fee itself, per the City's own FAQ page — so no fee applies to the license for such a facility, though the facility must still hold the license and comply with its other terms (zoning approval, current NM tax registration, etc.). This exemption does not reach the companion Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee: the FAQ page's exemption sentence names only 'the fee' (the license fee) and Albuquerque Fire Rescue's own Chapter 83, the ordinance that actually sets the inspection fee, contains no childcare or daycare exemption anywhere in its text — it addresses only non-profit organizations, expressly making them subject to the fee rather than exempting them. An exempt daycare therefore still owes the Fire & Life Safety Inspection Fee recorded separately above.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Albuquerque
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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 License FAQs — states the $35 (rising to $36.75 as of July 1, 2026) annual fee, the banded Fire & Life Safety inspection fee table, the $10/calendar-day late fee, the state-licensed-daycare fee exemption, and renewal timingCity of Albuquerque, Planning Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- Business License Information — issuing section, application process, and required documentationCity of Albuquerque, Planning Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- Business License Ordinance summary — Council Bill O-24-60, ROA 1994 §§13-1-1 to 13-1-18, effective July 1, 2025, the 5%/year fee-increase cap, and the $100/day civil fine for noncomplianceCity of Albuquerque, Planning Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
- Chapter 83, Required Inspections, Fees and Rates — Table 8302.4-A (Fire & Life Safety Fee by square footage), Table 8302.5-A (Specific Operational Permits, including a $50 Mobile Food Vending Units fee), Table 8304.1 (New Construction Inspection Fees), and the $60 re-inspection feeAlbuquerque Fire Rescue, Fire Marshal's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-11
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