Business | Fee |
Business | Fee | |||
Adult use businesses | $500.00 | |||
Administrative processing fee | 200.00 | |||
Adult-use cannabis dispensing organization | $2,500.00 | |||
Amusement devices: | ||||
For the first year | 500.00 | |||
Annually thereafter | 250.00 | |||
Video games per machine | 25.00 | |||
Nonvideo games: | ||||
Not having a coin or token receptacle | 25.00 | |||
Having a coin or token receptacle | 25.00 | |||
Amusements | 100.00 | |||
Auctions and auctioneers | 900.00 | |||
Not to exceed 20 days | 45.00 | |||
Automobile rental establishments | 250.00 | |||
Automobile sales and service | 250.00 | |||
Billiards, pool tables | 10.00 for each billiard or pool table on the premises | |||
Brokers | 100.00 | |||
Cigarette and tobacco dealers: | ||||
Wholesalers | 250.00 | |||
Retailers | 150.00 | |||
Cigarette or tobacco machines, each | 150.00 | |||
Contractors: | License Type
| Annual License
| Annual License After July 1
| Bond
| Liability Insurance
| ||
Contractors who are required to be licensed by the state of Illinois shall provide the city of Countryside a copy of their valid state license or registration and a copy of the certificate of insurance provided to the state (showing current coverage). No license fee shall be charged | IL (state license or registration type) | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | $ 0.00 | Copy of insurance provided to state (showing current coverage) | ||
Demolition/house wrecker | Demolition | 100.00 | 50.00 | 40,000.00 | $1,000,000.00 | ||
Electricians who are tested and licensed by an Illinois municipality shall provide the city of Countryside a copy of their valid municipal license, an original bond and a certificate of insurance. No license fee shall be charged | Electrician | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | ||
Any and all other contractors or subcontractors doing only work for which a permit is not required | Limited contractor | 100.00 | 50.00 | 0.00 | 1,000,000.00 | ||
Any and all other contractors or subcontractors doing work for which a permit is or is not required | Contractor | 100.00 | 50.00 | 20,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 |
Business
| Fee
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Business
| Fee
| |||||||
Explosives | 200.00 | |||||||
Automotive filling station, per year | 200.00 | |||||||
Automotive filling station with car wash, per year | 300.00 | |||||||
Automotive filling station with mini mart, per year | 400.00 | |||||||
Automotive filling station with car wash and mini mart, per year | 550.00 | |||||||
Fire extinguisher services | 50.00 | |||||||
Firearms dealers | 200.00 | |||||||
Gun show or event | 50.00 | |||||||
Florists and sales of Christmas trees: | ||||||||
Christmas tree sales | 50.00 | plus $100.00 deposit | ||||||
Florist | 50.00 | |||||||
Food delivery vehicles | 30.00 | for each vehicle | ||||||
Food dispensing vehicles | 100.00 | for each vehicle | ||||||
Golfing activities: | ||||||||
Golf driving ranges | 300.00 | |||||||
Miniature golf or putting courses | 50.00 | |||||||
House/commercial movers | 70.00 | |||||||
Home occupation | 50.00 | |||||||
Jukeboxes | 25.00 | for each such device kept or installed on the licensed premises, plus 3.00 for each coin receptacle, station or box capable of operating such device | ||||||
Limousine driver's license | 400.00 | |||||||
Limousine services | 1,000.00 | plus $150.00 per limousine operated within the city | ||||||
Mobile home parks | 200.00 | plus $5.00 for each mobile home space in the mobile home park | ||||||
Motels - hotels (up to 10 rooms), per year | 250.00 | |||||||
Motels - hotels (over 10 rooms), per year | 250.00 | |||||||
Plus (for each room) | 6.00 | |||||||
Outdoor storage container rental or use | 150.00 | per container - limit 3 per property (includes $50.00 inspection fee and $100.00 license fee) | ||||||
Parking lots: | ||||||||
Not exceeding 25 vehicle spaces, per space | 6.00 | |||||||
Exceeding 25 vehicle spaces, an additional | 75.00 | |||||||
Plus for each additional space in excess of 25 | 3.00 | |||||||
Petroleum product dealers | 200.00 | |||||||
Plus for each vehicle used to store or deliver such products | 5.00 | |||||||
Precious metal purchasers | 200.00 | |||||||
Rooming houses | 50.00 | |||||||
Scavengers | 50.00 | |||||||
Self-storage facility | 100.00 | |||||||
Service merchants | 50.00 | |||||||
Except as to the businesses hereinafter set forth, which shall be as follows: | ||||||||
Bank | 200.00 | |||||||
For each additional banking facility | 50.00 | |||||||
Consultant | 50.00 | |||||||
Currency exchange | 50.00 | |||||||
Electronic repair | 50.00 | |||||||
Income tax service | 50.00 | |||||||
Loan company | 50.00 | |||||||
Locksmith | 50.00 | |||||||
Manufacturer's selling agency | 50.00 | |||||||
Pet grooming | 50.00 | |||||||
Plumbing and heating | 50.00 | |||||||
Printing | 200.00 | |||||||
Pump service | 50.00 | |||||||
Rental shop | 50.00 | |||||||
Savings and loan | 200.00 | |||||||
For each additional savings and loan facility | 50.00 | |||||||
Secretarial service | 50.00 | |||||||
Special education transportation | 50.00 | |||||||
Telephone answering service | 50.00 | |||||||
Travel agency | 50.00 | |||||||
Stable | 50.00 | plus $5.00 for each horse permitted to be boarded or kept | ||||||
Street advertising | 100.00 | |||||||
Taxicab operator, regardless of number of vehicles operated | 50.00 | |||||||
Towing operator | 200.00 | |||||||
Plus for each tow truck | 30.00 | |||||||
Undertakers and undertaking establishments | 150.00 | |||||||
Vending machines | 25.00 | |||||||
Cigarette or tobacco machines | 150.00 | |||||||
Vending machines, nonautomatic items | 25.00 | |||||||
Vending machines, nonfood items | 25.00 | |||||||
Unless exempted from business licensing requirements pursuant to city code, all retail, wholesale, service, entertainment, or other business establishments for which a fee is not provided above or elsewhere in the city's code, shall pay the following license fees on a square footage basis:
0 - 1,500 sq. ft., per year | $ 200.00 |
1,501 - 2,500 sq. ft., per year | 250.00 |
2,501 - 5,000 sq. ft., per year | 300.00 |
5,001 - 10,000 sq. ft., per year | 350.00 |
10,001 - 15,000 sq. ft., per year | 400.00 |
15,001 - 20,000 sq. ft., per year | 450.00 |
20,001 - 30,000 sq. ft., per year | 600.00 |
30,001 - 50,000 sq. ft., per year | 750.00 |
50,001 - 100,000 sq. ft., per year | 900.00 |
100,001 - 150,000 sq. ft., per year | 1,000.00 |
150,001 and over, per year | 1,150.00 |
(Ord. 00-38-0, 12-13-2000; amd. Ord. 01-21-0, 9-26-2001; Ord. 04-29-0, 7-28-2004; Ord. 06-09-0, 3-8-2006; Ord. 06-18-0, 5-24-2006; Ord. 07-05-0, 1-24-2007; Ord. 07-19-0, 6-13-2007; Ord. 08-25-0, 5-14-2008; Ord. 12-35-0, 5-23-2012; Ord. 20-01-0, 1-8-2020; Ord. 20-41-O, 12-9-2020; Ord. 21-29-O, 8-11-2021; Ord. 22-36-O, 9-28-2022)