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Pelham council adopts temporary-event business license to ease permit costs for vendors
Summary
The Pelham City Council unanimously adopted ordinance 28817 on Sept. 8, 2025, creating a short-term/special-event business license category with fees, application deadlines and tax remittance requirements to streamline vendor participation in single events.
The Pelham City Council unanimously adopted an amendment to the city business license code on Sept. 8, 2025, creating a temporary or single-event business license for vendors and event sponsors. The ordinance sets a $25 vendor fee per event, a $150 sponsor fee per event, and establishes application deadlines and vendor reporting requirements.
Assistant City Manager Justin Smith introduced the item during a public hearing and told the council the amendment responds to a request from an event organizer that had asked the city to allow single-event licenses. "That came to us after a request that was made to us to look into that by 2 by 2 Rescue for an…
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