Business License Applications

Anyone doing any type of business within Estes Park town limits is required to obtain a Business License.  Municipal Code Chapter 5.20.  

 Four easy steps to obtaining a Business License:
    1.     Select the appropriate application form
    2.    Print the form and complete
    3.    Sole Proprietors must include a completed, notarized Affidavit of Lawful
               Presence and a copy of their Colorado Driver's License with the application.
    4.    Mail the completed form(s) and payment (instructions listed on application form)
   
Specific categories are as follows:

1.    General:  a business, profession or occupation whose business consists of the selling of goods,
       wares, merchandise or providing a professional service (outside the home).  This category also
       applies to any non-resident business, profession, occupation, or professional service. (Non-resident
       business is defined as a business whose business premises is located outside the corporate limits of
       the Town.)  
                Click here for a General application (in "pdf" format). 

2.    Building Contractor:  a business, profession or occupation whose primary business is in the
       physical construction of structures and their appurtenances.  
                    Click here for a Building Contractor application (in "pdf" format).

3.    Home:  a business, profession or occupation conducted within or from a dwelling by a resident
       (INSIDE TOWN LIMITS) as an accessory use to the residential use of the dwelling, but it does
       not include a building contractor or accommodation.  NOTE:  the Home license category does not
       apply to non-resident home based businesses.  
                    Click here for a Home application (in "pdf" format).

4.    Accommodations:  the leasing, rental or furnishing of any room, mobile home site, recreational
       vehicle site, camp site or other area in any hotel, motel, guest house, bed and breakfast, apartment,
       dormitory, mobile home park, recreational vehicle park or campground, any single-family dwelling,
       duplex, multiple family dwelling or any such similar place to any person who, for a consideration,
       uses, possesses or has the right to use or possess such dwelling, room, single family dwelling, duplex
       unit, multiple-family unit, site or other accommodation for a total continuous duration of less than
       thirty (30) days.  
                    Click here for an Accommodations application and Rental Restrictions
                 (in "pdf" format)..

5.    Horse permit:  Municipal Code 7.08.060(a) - no person shall keep or maintain a horse within the
       Town limits unless such person has a valid permit to do so.
                    Click here for a Horse permit application (in "pdf" format).


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