Apply for a Business License

Please note that if you are starting a home occupation you will have to complete the following process:

• Complete and hand in a Home Occupation Application Form to the Town Office with a $75 fee;
• Include a copy of a letter giving permission from the landlord to operate a home occupation (RENTERS ONLY);
• Wait for the three week appeal period from the date the home occupation is advertised in the newspaper to be complete;
• Obtain a valid business license by completing and handing in a Business License Application Form with the appropriate fees.

Business License Form

Business License Cancellation

Business License Bylaw

AUTOMOTIVE BUSINESS

Means the activity of:

• Buying or selling vehicles, whether as a retailer or wholesaler, including selling motor vehicles on consignment
• Leasing vehicles when the term of the lease is more than 120 days
• Negotiating or conducting  on the consumer’s behalf and agreement in which the consumer buys, sells or leases a motor vehicle
• Recycling or dismantling vehicles
• Installing parts or equipment in, repairing or servicing motor vehicles

“Vehicle” means:

• a motor vehicle defines in the Traffic Saftey Act, but does not include motor cycle or off-highway vehicle as defined in that act
• a recreation vehicle intended to be towed that combines transportation and temporary living accommodations for the purpose of travel or camping

*Automotive Business Does Not Include:

• selling of vehicles by manufacturers to dealers
• cleaning or polishing the exterior or interior of vehicles 
• repairing chips or cracks in the windshield or any window that does not involve replacing the windshield or window

AUTOMOTIVE BUSINESS REGULATION

Automotive Sales License:

A person who holds an automotive sales license is authorized to carry on a class or classes of the activity of buying or selling  vehicles as specified by the Director, including but not limited to, selling vehicles as:

• a  retailer
• a wholesaler, or
• an agent or broker

Automotive Leasing License:

A person who holds an automotive leasing license is authorized to carry on a class or classes of the activity of leasing vehicles as specified by the director.

Automotive Consignment License:

A person who holds an automotive consignment license is authorized to carry on a class or classes of the activity of selling vehicles on consignment as specified by the director.

Automotive Repair License:

A person who holds an automotive repair license is authorized to carry on the activities of:

• repairing vehicles
• servicing vehicles
• recycling and dismantling vehicles
• installing parts or equipment in vehicles 

(“installing” includes but is not limited to the installation of anti-theft systems, stereo, audio-visual and remote start systems and modification kits.)

Alberta Municipalities  –  Pertinent Legislation, Fair Trading Act Chapter F-2; Alberta Motor Vehicle Industry Council

• Motion Picture Theatres
• Opera Houses
• Television Studio admitting audiences
• Theatres, including experimental theatres
  
  

Group A, Division 2

• Art Galleries
• Auditoria
• Bowling Alleys
• Churches and similar places of worship
• Clubs, nonresidential
• Community Halls
• Courtrooms
• Dance Halls
• Exhibition Halls
• Gymnasia
• Lecture Halls
• Libraries
• Licensed Beverage Establishments
• Museums
• Passenger Stations and Depots
• Recreational Piers
• Restaurants
• Schools and Colleges, nonresidential
• Undertaking Premises
  
  

Group A, Division 3

• Arenas
• Indoor Swimming Pools, with or without spectator seating
• Rinks
  
  

Group A, Division 4

• Amusement Park Structures
• Bleachers
• Grandstands
• Reviewing Stands
• Stadia
  
  

Group B, Division 1

• Jails
• Penitentiaries
• Police Stations with dentention quarters
• Prisons
• Psychiatric Hospitals without detention quarters
• Reformatories without detention quarters
  
  

Group B, Division 2

• Children's Custodial Homes
• Convalescent Homes
• Hospitals
• Infirmaries
• Nursing Homes
• Orphanages
• Sanitoria without detention quarters
  
  

Page 424, A.3.1.2.3.(1) Major Occupancy Classification, Alberta Building Code 1997