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 "municipality": "Dover",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Delaware",
 "country": "US",
 "topic": "business_licensing",
 "label": "Business licences & permits",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
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   "title": "Ordinance #2024-22 – Amending Chapter 26 – Businesses, Article II – Licenses, and Appendix F – Fees and Fines",
   "category": "business_licensing",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2024-07-08",
   "document_url": "https://www.cityofdover.gov/media/Government/Ordinances-Resolutions-Tributes/2024/Ordinance%202024-22%20-%20Amending%20Chapter%2026%20-%20Businesses%20and%20Appx%20F%20-%20ADOPTED.pdf",
   "summary": "Comprehensive restatement of Dover's business-license article defining all license categories (advertisers, auctioneers, banks, barbers, brokers, car washes, etc.) and updating related fee schedules in Appendix F.",
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   "captured_at": "2026-06-08T01:09:19+00:00",
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   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/80e1cdf7af493c49f99180572cafc4b219ddf792b26be750088552ebff0b8730.pdf",
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   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "who_must_license": "Persons conducting trades, businesses, or occupations within the city, including specific listed classes and all other businesses not listed.",
    "fee": "Varies per Appendix F; e.g., Advertising agency $96.00, Manufacturers $0.00046 of aggregate gross receipts",
    "renewal": "annual"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "Sec. 26-35(d)(1)",
    "who_must_license": "Sec. 26-35(d)(1)",
    "fee": "Appendix F",
    "renewal": "Sec. 26-35(a)"
   },
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}