License or endorsement fees.
Las Vegas Municipal Code § 6.50.360
in effect6.50.360 - License or endorsement fees.
(A) Except as otherwise provided in Subsections (B) through (D), each licensee shall pay to the Department, in advance, the applicable semiannual license or endorsement fees set forth in the following schedule:
License/Endorsement Category | Semiannual License/Endorsement Fee (Dollars)
Alcohol delivery support service | $500.00
Alcohol caterer | 500.00
Ancillary specialty sales | 500.00 per category authorized
Beer and wine off-premise | 500.00
Beer and wine on-premise | 700.00
Plus: Fee for each additional bar | 400.00
Brew pub | 1,200.00
Craft distillery | 1,200.00
Craft winery | 1,200.00
Full alcohol on-premise | 1,200.00
Plus: Fee for each additional bar | 900.00
Plus: Fee for resort hotel owned gift shop | 900.00
Liquor manufacturer | 1,000.00
Package alcohol | 750.00
Wholesale general | 1,000.00
(B) Certain licenses issued pursuant to this Chapter in previous years were subject to the payment of an origination charge, which had the effect of creating market value in those licenses. The requirement for new licensees to pay an origination charge has been repealed, which affects the value of those existing licenses and affects the licensees themselves in relation to future license holders. To compensate existing licensees who paid such an origination charge to the City after May 20, 2009, or subsequent license holders who can document having paid the equivalent of the origination charge as part of a purchase price, in an amount of at least five thousand dollars, their future semi-annual license fees are subject to adjustment in accordance with the following formula:
(1) For 2023, ten percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022, with the percentage owed increasing to 15%, twenty percent, twenty-five percent, thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, and eighty percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2032;
(2) For 2023, 15% of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021, with the percentage owed increasing to twenty percent, twenty-five percent, thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2032;
(3) For 2023, twenty percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2020, with the percentage owed increasing to twenty-five percent, thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2031;
(4) For 2023, twenty-five percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019, with the percentage owed increasing to thirty percent, forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2030;
(5) For 2023, thirty percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2018, with the percentage owed increasing to forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2029;
(6) For 2023, forty percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017, with the percentage owed increasing to fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2028;
(7) For 2023, fifty percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016, with the percentage owed increasing to sixty percent, seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2027;
(8) For 2023, sixty percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015, with the percentage owed increasing to seventy percent, eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 through 2026;
(9) For 2023, seventy percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A) for a license whose origination charge was paid between May 20, 2009 and March 31, 2014, with the percentage owed increasing to eighty percent, and ninety percent for each of the succeeding years 2024 and 2025.
The table that follows just below is for purposes of convenience and illustration of the formula set forth above. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the formula and the table, the provisions of the formula shall prevail.
Origination Fees Paid Between | Payment Percentage for Renewals
2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032
04/01/2021— 03/31/2022 | 10% | 15% | 20% | 25% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80%
04/01/2020— 03/31/2021 | 15% | 20% | 25% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90%
04/01/2019— 03/31/2020 | 20% | 25% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100%
04/01/2018— 03/31/2019 | 25% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100%
04/01/2017— 03/31/2018 | 30% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100%
04/01/2016— 3/31/2017 | 40% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100%
04/01/2015— 03/31/2016 | 50% | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100%
04/01/2014— 03/31/2015 | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100%
05/20/2009— 03/31/2014 | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100%
(C) At the expiration of the period of reduction of a licensee's semi-annual license fees pursuant to the Schedule above in Subsection (B), the amount of the licensee's semi-annual license fees owed shall revert back to one hundred percent of the amount calculated pursuant to Subsection (A). In no event shall the total of the reductions in the amounts owed pursuant to this Section for a particular licensee ever exceed an amount that is five thousand dollars less than the amount of the origination charge actually paid by that licensee. When the amount of the reductions in the semi-annual license fees owed by a licensee reaches an amount that is five thousand dollars less than the amount of the origination charge actually paid by that licensee, further reductions in the amount of semi-annual licensee fee owed pursuant to Subsection (A) shall cease and the licensee shall thereafter owe and pay the full amount of the semi-annual license fee calculated pursuant to Subsection (A).
(D) There shall be no license-fee reduction pursuant to this Section for any license that was issued prior to May 20, 2009.
(E) For purposes of the license-fee reduction provisions of this Section:
(1) No reduction of fees pursuant to this Section is available regarding any license for which the origination charge was waived in its entirety.
(2) With regard to any license for which the origination charge was partially waived, a license-fee reduction pursuant to this Section is available only regarding any origination charge amount actually paid to the City, with that amount being considered as the origination charge paid for all purposes under this Section.
(3) No reduction of fees pursuant to this Section is available regarding any license that was the subject of or involved in a trade-in program whereby a new license was obtained in place of another without the payment of any amounts in the form of an origination charge.
(Ord. No. 6806, § 22, 4-6-22)
Source: City of Las Vegas, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/nv/las_vegas/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT6BUTALIRE_CH6.50LICO_6.50.360LIENFEFetched: 10/28/2026