Regulations and Licensing

Learn about types of liquor licenses and criteria that applicants and their establishments must meet.

Describes how cities may control pets, farm animals, exotic animals, and newly popular hobbies of keeping bees or chickens.

City authority to regulate various activities city comes from state law. Learn about activities cities most commonly regulate and license.

Describes possible ways cities can regulate peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants.

Learn about regulating all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), golf carts, mini-trucks, motorized foot scooters, pocket bikes, mini-motorcycles, motorized bicycles, and electric-assisted bicycles.

Understand the basic concepts in licensing such as city authority, constitutional issues, preemption and limitation and fees.

Understand the city’s role in operating a municipal liquor store.

Understand how state laws affect a city’s ability to prohibit guns on city property.

Learn about the tools available to cities under state law to remedy unhealthy and dangerous properties.

Learn what gambling is allowed in Minnesota, like pull-tabs and raffles, and which organizations may conduct them.