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Business licences and permits in Bellevue, Nebraska
Bellevue runs no general business licence and — unlike Lincoln or Omaha — no restaurant occupation tax either: the City's own Master Fee Schedule (Resolution 2025-01) lists only liquor, natural gas, telephone, hotel and vending-machine occupation taxes, and Chapter 8.5's $25/year 'license and occupation tax' applies only within Business Improvement District boundaries, not citywide. The Nebraska Department of Agriculture, not a local health department, administers both the restaurant/coffee-shop food establishment permit and the mobile food unit permit directly here — confirmed from NDA's own inspection-areas page (Sarpy County is not among the counties forwarded to a local jurisdiction) and its own Mobile Food Establishment Ordinance Registry (which marks Bellevue as never having responded with a local ordinance) — while the Sarpy/Cass Health Department's own site redirects food and restaurant applicants straight to NDA. Bellevue does license a City Peddler/Mobile Vendor permit ($50/day or $300/year) that reaches food trucks as a genuine local layer distinct from the state food-safety process. The City's own Master Fee Schedule prices a full valuation-based Table 3-A building permit fee, a five-tier Class A-E contractor licence, separate plumbing/mechanical/sewer trade licences, a banded sign-permit fee, a $50 zoning verification letter, and Fire Department fees for Child Care Inspections ($40-$60) and Range Hood Fire Extinguishing systems ($10.65) — but names no local electrical-contractor registration fee, no Places-of-Assembly fire fee, and no repair-garage or salon/barbershop-specific municipal product.
What are you opening in Bellevue?
- RestaurantsFull-service restaurants carry the densest permit load of any small business: food, fire, occupancy, waste, and usually alcohol.See the full permit list
- Coffee shopsCafés are permitted as food service establishments even where no cooking happens, and the plan review step catches most operators by surprise.See the full permit list
- Retail storesRetail is the lightest common permit load, but the sales tax permit and the certificate of occupancy are non-negotiable in every jurisdiction.See the full permit list
- Salons and barbersPersonal care is licensed at state board level as well as locally, so the shop licence and the practitioner licences are separate obligations.See the full permit list
- Food trucksMobile food is the one category with no certificate of occupancy — but it gains a commissary agreement, and the unit itself is inspected rather than the premises.See the full permit list
- Fitness studiosPrepaid memberships trigger state registration and often a surety bond, which catches operators who budgeted only for the fit-out.See the full permit list
- Childcare centresThe heaviest permit load of any small business: state agency licensing, per-person background checks, and a stricter fire standard than ordinary commercial use.See the full permit list
- Contractors and tradesLicensed at state board level rather than locally, and the only common category with no premises permits at all — the bond is usually the long pole.See the full permit list
- Auto repair shopsOrdinary commercial permitting plus an environmental layer: waste oil, solvents and stormwater are each registered separately.See the full permit list
- Veterinary clinicsA state facility permit, controlled substances registration at both state and federal level, and a medical waste manifest — none of which a general business licence covers.See the full permit list
Who issues business permits in Bellevue?
Permitting in Bellevue is split across 5 agencies we hold records for, with tax registration handled at state level. No single office issues everything, which is why an opening usually means filing in several places rather than one.
Bellevue issuing agencies
- City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Fire Department, Fire Prevention DivisionFire code inspections · Fire alarm and fire-extinguishing system permits · Child care facility fire inspections3 permits
- City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Office of the City ClerkPeddler, solicitor, street vendor and mobile vendor licensing · Temporary business licences (seasonal merchant, carnival/circus, etc.) · Liquor, tobacco and vending-machine occupation tax administration3 permits
- City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Permits & Inspections (Building Department)Commercial building permits and plan review · Certificates of occupancy · Contractor and trade licensing (Class A-E, plumbing, mechanical, sewer, electrical registration)2 permits
- City of Bellevue, Nebraska, Planning DepartmentSign permits · Zoning verification letters · Change of zone, conditional use and subdivision applications2 permits
- Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Consumer ProtectionRetail food establishment permits, administered directly for Sarpy County/Bellevue (no local delegated health department programme) · Mobile food unit permits, administered directly (no Bellevue-specific mobile food ordinance on file)2 permits
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