Business licences & permits across New Brunswick
Do I need a business licence or permit? What does it cost?
30 of 77 municipalities in New Brunswick have an adopted bylaw on business licences & permits on file. Each row links the municipality's answer page and, where transcribed, the full text of the document.
| Municipality | Adopted document | Key facts | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belle-Baie Town |
Arrêté 2025-04 — Marchands ambulants, colporteurs et cantines | licence required: True · who must license: marchands ambulants, colporteurs, vendeurs et cantines mobiles · renewal: un (1) an max; une journée, un mois ou une saison | 2026-06-07 |
| Belledune Village |
Business Operating Permit: By-law No. 1994-25 | — | 2026-06-05 |
| Caraquet Town |
Arrêté régissant les permis et licences pour non-résidents (ARCAR58 — Colporteurs) | licence required: True · who must license: Anyone peddling or selling door-to-door in the Municipality, excluding farmers, fishermen, and specific religious/charity associations. · fee: $25.00 s'il s'agit d'un résident de la ville de Caraquet et de $50.00 s'il s'agit d'un non-résident | 2026-06-05 |
| Carleton North Town |
A-6: Respecting Peddlers By-law — District of Carleton North | licence required: True · who must license: Peddlers operating within the District of Carleton North, excluding exceptions listed in section 5.1. · fee: $100.00 per week HST Exempt; $50.00 per day HST Exempt; $250.00 per month HST Exempt; $1250.00 per year HST Exempt | 2026-06-05 |
| Champdoré Town |
No. 2024-01 — Arrêté concernant les cantines mobiles (mobile food trucks) | licence required: True · who must license: Mobile food trucks operating within the boundaries of the former Village of Saint-Antoine. · fee: Daily: forty dollars (40.00 $) Residents; fifty dollars ($ 50.00) Non-Residents; Exemptions: Free of charge | 2026-06-05 |
| Dieppe City |
By-law P-2 (2022) — Peddlers and Transient Traders | licence required: True · who must license: pedlar or a transient trader within the Municipality · fee: Group A: no fee; Group B: $200 per 30-day period; Group C: $200 per 30-day period; Other: $300 per 30-day period | 2026-06-05 |
| Doaktown Village |
By-Law No. 21-07 — By-Law Respecting Peddlers | licence required: True · who must license: Any person who peddles or hawks goods or merchandise within the Municipality, excluding farm, fish, or religious society peddlers. · fee: one hundred dollars | 2026-06-05 |
| Eastern Charlotte Rural community |
By-law EC-11 — A Bylaw Respecting Peddlers & Transient Traders for Eastern Charlotte
adopted 2024-04-17 |
licence required: True · who must license: Peddlers hawking goods and Transient Traders operating temporary businesses within the Municipality. · fee: $50.00 | 2026-06-05 |
| Edmundston City |
13R2014 — Colporteurs et commerces temporaires de vente | licence required: True · who must license: Peddlers and temporary sales businesses operating within Edmundston municipal limits · fee: $500 for each day of operation | 2026-06-05 |
| Grand Falls Town |
Arrêté D-2 / By-Law D-2: A By-Law Respecting Transient Traders (Peddler) and Temporary Sales Businesses | licence required: True · who must license: Persons peddling goods door-to-door or engaging in temporary sales businesses without a permanent place of business. · fee: $500 for each day of business; Food Trucks fees as described in Policy 2023-04 | 2026-06-05 |
| Grand-Bouctouche Town |
Arrêté 2010-02 — Un arrêté régissant le commerce et la délivrance des permis de colporteurs et marchands ambulants | — | 2026-06-07 |
| Hampton Town |
By-Law No. HAM-2023-12 — Transient Traders, Peddlers, Vendors and Mobile Trucks By-Law | licence required: True · who must license: Persons offering goods, merchandise or food for sale on a temporary basis, including transient traders, peddlers, vendors and mobile food trucks. · fee: Annual Fee for Permanent Business Owner (max. of 130 days/year) $750; Special events license (4-day period) $200; Peddlers and Non-Food Vendors $25.00/ day to a maximum of $ 250.00 / month | 2026-06-07 |
| Hanwell Rural community |
By-Law No. 10-2015 — A By-Law to Regulate Signs (Signage By-Law) | fee: $50 for a fixed Sign; no fee for Minor Information and Direction Signs | 2026-06-07 |
| Hartland Town |
B-51 — Peddlers | licence required: True · who must license: Any person peddling, hawking, or carrying goods from place to place within the Town · fee: $10.00 per day HST Exempt, $40.00 per week HST Exempt, $100.00 per month HST Exempt (non-Town land); $20.00 per day HST Exempt, $60.00 per week HST Exempt, $150.00 per month HST Exempt (Town Property) | 2026-06-07 |
| Hautes-Terres Town |
Arrêté 2023-02 concernant les marchands ambulants, les colporteurs, les cuisines de rue et les ventes-débarras
adopted 2023-04-25 |
licence required: True · who must license: colporteur, marchand ambulant, cuisine de rue (excl. ventes-débarras s.8.i et exceptions s.10) · fee: 100,00 $/jour (colporteur); 150,00 $/mois (résident, max 600,00 $/an); 250,00 $/mois (non-résident) | 2026-06-05 |
| Kedgwick Rural community |
Arrêté no. 17 — Vendeurs itinérants (Itinerant Vendors) | licence required: True · who must license: Any person who peddles or transports goods from place to place for peddling purposes; exemptions for farmers, fishermen, charitable/religious bodies, commercial travellers. · fee: 100,00$ par année (Kedgwick residents); 125,00$ par année (residents of Grimmer, Eldon, Whites-Brook, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Menneval); 100,00$ par mois (non-residents) | 2026-06-05 |
| Moncton City |
By-Law L-202 – Transient Traders / Arrêté vendeurs ambulants | licence required: True · who must license: any person who engages in a temporary business of selling and delivering goods... for less than forty-five (45) consecutive days · fee: amount as determined by Council and described in the Fees and Charges By-Law | 2026-06-07 |
| Neguac Village |
Arrêté 41-2019 — Arrêté concernant les colporteurs et les marchands ambulants
adopted 2020-05-25 |
licence required: True · who must license: Peddlers (colporteurs) and itinerant merchants (marchands ambulants) operating in Neguac, with listed exemptions · fee: 100 $ par année (période se terminant le 31 décembre) pour un résident de la municipalité ; 200 $ par année (période se terminant le 31 décembre) si le titulaire n'est pas un résident de la municipalité | 2026-06-05 |
| Oromocto Town |
By-Law 503 – A By-Law Relating to Transient Traders and Businesses in the Town of Oromocto | licence required: True · who must license: Transient vehicle vendors and transient traders selling merchandise in the Municipality · fee: Transient Vehicle Vendor: $140 a day to a maximum of $560 per event and $2,240 per calendar year; Transient Trader: $10 per day to a maximum of $100 per calendar year | 2026-06-05 |
| Riverview Town |
By-Law 600-10 Pedlars
+1 more adopted 2014-09-08 |
licence required: True · who must license: Persons selling goods directly to consumers other than at their place of business by sample, card, specimen or otherwise · fee: $100.00 per year | 2026-06-05 |
| Rothesay Town |
By-Law 3-10 A By-law Respecting Signage in Rothesay (Consolidation) | licence required: True · who must license: Any person constructing, setting up, placing, exhibiting, erecting, or relocating a sign in Rothesay, unless exempted under Section 7. · fee: Fifty dollars ($50) for each sign requiring a license to a maximum fee of $150 per application; No Fee for Not For Profit Organization or Community Group | 2026-06-05 |
| Saint Andrews Town |
By-Law No. 25-02 Respecting Peddlers and Transient Traders (Replacing By-Law No. 75)
adopted 2025-01-17 |
— | 2026-06-05 |
| Saint John City |
By-Law Number L.G.-14 A By-Law Respecting the Licensing of Peddlers and Hawkers in The City of Saint John
adopted 2021-05-03 |
licence required: True · who must license: Peddlers and hawkers operating in The City of Saint John · fee: $150 | 2026-08-23 |
| Saint-Quentin Town |
NO 07-2022 Arrêté concernant les colporteurs et les marchands ambulants | licence required: True · who must license: colporteur or marchand ambulant activities, except exemptions in 3.1 · fee: ANNEXE A: Resident 25 $, 100 $, 300 $, 500 $; Non résident 150 $, 450 $, 600 $, 1 000 $; Cantine mobile et cuisine de rue 25 $, 250 $ | 2026-06-05 |
| Shediac Town |
By-Law No. 03-14 — Pedlars and Transient Traders Licensing | licence required: True · who must license: Persons offering goods, merchandise or food for sale on a temporary basis, excluding exemptions in s. 12. · fee: One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); five dollars ($5.00) | 2026-06-05 |
| Shippagan Town |
Arrêté 09-2005 — Arrêté concernant les colporteurs | licence required: True · who must license: Persons peddling, selling door-to-door, operating temporary sales commerce, or using motor vehicles for display, sale or delivery of goods. · fee: cent dollars (100S) par jour | 2026-06-05 |
| Southern Victoria Village |
By-Law R-4 — To Regulate and License Peddlers and Transient Traders | licence required: True · who must license: Every transient trader and pedlar · fee: Daily fee of $50.00; Monthly fee of $125.00; Seasonal/Annual fee of $300.00 | 2026-06-05 |
| Tantramar Town |
By-Law No. 274 — Taxi-Cab By-Law | licence required: True · who must license: Persons who own, lease or otherwise keep a taxicab for hire; persons who operate a taxicab. · fee: Owner: $150.00 for up to three vehicles per year, $300 for 4-6 vehicles per year, $450 for 7 or more vehicles per year; Operator: $40.00 | 2026-06-05 |
| Tracadie Regional municipality |
Arrêté 026-00-2019 concernant les colporteurs, les marchands ambulants, les cuisines de rue et les ventes-débarras | — | 2026-06-05 |
| Woodstock Town |
By-Law No. 260-1 — A By-Law Regulating and Licensing Transient Vendors and Peddlers in the Town of Woodstock
adopted 2022-07-12 |
licence required: True · who must license: Peddlers and transient vendors selling goods, merchandise, food, or services within the municipality. · fee: Annual: Class A $1500.00 annually, Class B $750.00 annually, Class C $150.00 annually for the first vehicle, $50 for each vehicle thereafter. Daily: Class A $75.00 per day, Class B $50.00 per day. Peddler: $75.00 per day. | 2026-06-05 |
Nothing on file for business licences & permits
Absence here is explicit, not a gap: each municipality below was checked, and its status says why there is no document.
Other bylaws on file, none on this topic (43) — Alnwick, Arcadia, Bathurst, Beaurivage, Beausoleil, Bois-Joli, Butternut Valley, Campbellton, Cap-Acadie, Central York, Fredericton, Fredericton Junction, Fundy Albert, Fundy Shores, Fundy-St. Martins, Grand Bay-Westfield, Grand Lake, Grand Manan, Harvey, Haut-Madawaska, Heron Bay, Lakeland Ridges, Maple Hills, McAdam, Memramcook, Miramichi, Miramichi River Valley, Nackawic-Millville, Nashwaak, New Maryland, Nouvelle-Arcadie, Rivière-du-Nord, Salisbury, St. Stephen, Strait Shores, Sunbury-York South, Sussex, Three Rivers, Tobique Valley, Tracy, Valley Waters, Vallée-des-Rivières, Île-de-Lamèque.
No bylaws published online (2, verified negatives) — Campobello Island, Upper Miramichi.
Unconfirmed (2, leads but nothing verified) — Five Rivers, Quispamsis.