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Business licenses and permits in Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County, Maryland, seat Upper Marlboro, runs its county-level business licensing through the Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement (DPIE) Licensing Center, which issues a specific list of county-only business license categories — including Building Contractor, Electrical Contractor (Limited), Motor Vehicle Repair Facility, Mobile Vendor, and Peddlers & Itinerant Vendors — and jointly collects Food Service Facility permit fees for the separate Prince George's County Health Department, which performs the inspections. The county also has its own local liquor-licensing authority, the Board of License Commissioners, created under a subtitle of the Maryland Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article, Title 26, that applies only in Prince George's County. A retail business's Trader's License, by contrast, is issued not by the county government but by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, a state office, under a statewide fee schedule. The county has 27 incorporated municipalities — more than any other Maryland county — Berwyn Heights, Bladensburg, Bowie, Brentwood, Capitol Heights, Cheverly, College Park, Colmar Manor, Cottage City, District Heights, Eagle Harbor, Edmonston, Fairmount Heights, Forest Heights, Glenarden, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Landover Hills, Laurel, Morningside, Mount Rainier, New Carrollton, North Brentwood, Riverdale Park, Seat Pleasant, University Park, and the county seat of Upper Marlboro itself, each operating its own separate local government under Maryland's Municipal Home Rule framework (Md. Const. Art. XI-E) that stacks its own business-license, building, and zoning regime on top of every county-level requirement recorded here.