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Committee approves city code clarification on fictitious business names

Las Vegas Recommending Committee · January 5, 2026

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Summary

The recommending committee approved Bill 2025-42 to clarify that each assumed or fictitious business name requires a separate Las Vegas business license; staff described the change as non-substantive housekeeping to clarify existing code.

The Las Vegas Recommending Committee voted Jan. 5 to approve Bill 2025-42, which clarifies municipal-code language to require a separate business license for every assumed or fictitious business name a business uses.

Darcy, a city staff member, told the committee the requirement already existed in code but the bill makes the language cleaner and explicitly covers common phrases such as "doing business as." There were no public comments. The committee moved and approved the item and it will be scheduled for the January city council meeting.

The measure is administrative and staff-characterized as a clarifying edit that makes licensing expectations clearer for businesses operating under multiple trade names.