Regulations and Licensing

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.

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

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

Outlines legal developments surrounding unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones.

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

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.

Get answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding outdoor service at restaurants and bars.

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