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City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)

In short

City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing) issues 7 permits we publish for Oklahoma City, last verified 2026-09-09. 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
Vehicle Food Sales License (City of Oklahoma City)City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)$140 annual, flat — replaces three previously separate tiers (no special events/six special events/unlimited special events, formerly $100/$150/$250) plus a separate $17 frozen-dessert-operator add-onannual — calendar year2026-09-09
Auto Repair Shop — City License and Fire Permit Lists (Oklahoma City)only if it applies to youCity of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)No feenot applicable2026-09-09
Salon / Barbershop Licensing — State Board Shop License Applies (Oklahoma City)only if it applies to youCity of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)No feenot applicable2026-09-09
Contractor Registration (by Trade)City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)The City registers contractors by trade, not as one generic 'contractor' category, and every figure is annual: Building Contractor (Residential Only) $100.00; Electrical Contractor $100.00; Mechanical Contractor $95.00 per category, phasing to $100.00 by 7/1/26 (§60-29-31); Plumbing Contractor $100.00; Fence Contractor $100.00; Sign Contractor $75.00; Insulation Contractor $100.00 (§60-12-35, effective 7/1/26); Sidewalk Contractor $75.00 (renewal of an expired registration is $150.00); Boiler Contractor $115.00 the first year, $57.00 annual renewal thereafter ($100.00 if renewed after a 90-day grace period); Well Driller's License $80.00 (§60-57-13, effective 7/1/26).annual2026-09-09
Food Service Establishment License (City of Oklahoma City)City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)$140 annual, flat — all classes (A, B, C, D and E) pay the same fee since July 1, 2026annual — calendar year2026-09-09
General Business License — City of Oklahoma City License List (Retail, Veterinary, Fitness)only if it applies to youCity of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)No feenot applicable2026-09-09
Nursery / Day Camp License (City of Oklahoma City)City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department, Licensing Office (Business Licensing)Annual base fee of $100.00 (Code of Ordinances §60-14-6 Nursery License or §60-14-11 Day Camp License, as applicable, effective July 1, 2026 following a phased citywide fee-study increase from a prior $25.00 base) plus $1.00 per enrolled child, per the City's own Business Licensing page.annual — calendar year2026-09-09

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

Vehicle Food Sales License (City of Oklahoma City)

This is the City's own local mobile-food license, separate from Oklahoma's statewide mobile-food regulation. Effective November 1, 2025, Oklahoma's Food Truck Freedom Act (HB 1076) lets any Oklahoma State Department of Health-licensed mobile food establishment operate in any local jurisdiction statewide, and caps what a local authority may charge for its own permit at that authority's actual administrative cost — the City's new flat $140.00 rate (down from tiers as high as $250) is consistent with that new state cap, though no City document states it as a direct response to it. A separate 'Vehicle Food Sales Court' license (also $140.00, §60-21-57) applies instead where multiple mobile vendors operate together at one fixed site.

Auto Repair Shop — City License and Fire Permit Lists (Oklahoma City)

The City's Business Licensing page lists no automotive-repair-specific municipal business license (its 'Used Auto Dealer & Salvage' license covers dealers in used automobiles, parts and salvage, not repair). Unlike Eugene, Oregon, where the local fire code separately prices a $200/year 'repair garage' operational permit, Oklahoma City Fire's own Permits page (fire alarm, sprinkler, fire suppression, hazardous materials, burn, electronic door hardware, plant extraction, carbon dioxide enrichment, emergency responder radio coverage) lists no repair-garage-specific line item either, so the City charges no fee tied to this trade specifically, beyond whatever building, sign, zoning and generic fire-code requirements (e.g., hazardous-materials storage above a threshold) its premises separately trigger.

Salon / Barbershop Licensing — State Board Shop License Applies (Oklahoma City)

The City's Business Licensing page lists no hairdresser-, barber-, beauty-shop- or cosmetology-specific municipal license among its named activities (the closest neighbouring category, Massage Establishment at $200/year, covers establishments deriving income from the practice of massage, not a hair or nail salon), so the City charges no fee under this record. A salon here owes only whatever building, sign and zoning requirements its premises trigger, on top of the Oklahoma State Board of Cosmetology's own state shop license.

Contractor Registration (by Trade)

Registration is by trade, not by project type. The City's Contractor Registration page labels its 'Building Contractor' registration Residential Only and lists no separate registration category for a general commercial building contractor, while the Business Licensing page states that all contractors must register with the City and that only registered contractors can purchase permits. Any of the enumerated TRADE contractors above — electrical, mechanical, plumbing, etc. — must register in that trade regardless of whether the site is residential or commercial. All trade contractors must also hold a current Oklahoma Construction Industries Board (CIB) license before the City will register them.

Food Service Establishment License (City of Oklahoma City)

This is the City's own local license for 'any permanent, temporary, or mobile establishment where food or drink is prepared, served, kept or stored for retail sale,' issued through the City's online licensing system — separate from and additional to Oklahoma's own $425 (new)/$335 (renewal) statewide Food Establishment License already recorded at the state layer. A current OCCHD inspection approval is a mandatory prerequisite before the City will issue this license; renewal also requires a current Oklahoma State Department of Health permit and a valid Oklahoma Tax Commission sales-tax permit. Before July 1, 2026 this license was tiered by employee count ($50/$75/$100 for 10-or-fewer/11-to-25/25-or-more employees, $35 for Class D, $25 for Class E) — the City's 2024 citywide fee study collapsed every Title 21 food-license category to this one flat $140.00 rate.

General Business License — City of Oklahoma City License List (Retail, Veterinary, Fitness)

The City's own Business Licensing page lists specific licensed activities by name (among them advertising, airport/heliport, auction sales, beverage bottling works, coin-operated devices, day care and day camps, gasoline and oil stations, hotels/motels, kennels, massage establishments, mobile home parks, outdoor sellers, pawnbrokers, used auto dealers and salvage, used merchandise and vehicle food sales) rather than issuing one general business license. The page lists no license for a generic retail store, veterinary clinic or fitness/gym studio, so the City charges no fee under this record. No City of Oklahoma City document publishes a general occupation tax in place of a business license, unlike Eugene, Oregon, which layers its Community Safety Payroll Tax over a similar closed list.

Nursery / Day Camp License (City of Oklahoma City)

This is the City's own local license for a child-care centre or nursery, separate from and additional to the Oklahoma Human Services Child Care License recorded at the state layer, which carries no confirmed fee of its own. The City's Business Licensing page still displays the pre-fee-study $92.50 base figure alongside the $1-per-child add-on; the $100.00 base shown here reflects the City's own dated fee-study document effective July 1, 2026, which supersedes it — the per-child add-on itself does not appear in that fee-study document and is treated as unchanged. 'Day Camp' is licensed as a distinct category from 'Nursery' at the same base rate; confirm with the Licensing Office (405-297-2606) which category applies to a specific childcare business model.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Oklahoma City
Phone
(405) 297-2606

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. Business LicensingCity of Oklahoma City · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09
  2. Contractor RegistrationCity of Oklahoma City · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09
  3. Fees Changing July 1, 2026, resulting from a citywide fee study as adopted by City Council in 2024City of Oklahoma City Development Services Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09
  4. Food Service EstablishmentCity of Oklahoma City · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09
  5. Permits issued by the Fire DepartmentCity of Oklahoma City Fire Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-09

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