NMSA 3-38-4. Business licensing; business registration; application to do
AI-assisted research summary: Before starting a business, a person must pay any applicable municipal business registration or license fee, and yearly renewal applications must include taxpayer ID information.
3-38-4. Business licensing; business registration; application to do business; issuance of license or registration; proration of license fee; renewal of registration; staggered periods for business registration. A. Prior to engaging in any business, any person proposing to engage in a business, except for a child care facility, shall pay to the municipality any applicable business registration fee or any applicable business license fee. A municipality may provide by ordinance for the prorating of the business license fee and the issuing of a business license for the remainder of the calendar year in which the business is to be operated. B. Each year, any person engaging in a business within a municipality shall apply for the renewal of any applicable business license as authorized in Section 3-38-1 NMSA 1978 or any applicable business registration as authorized in Section 3-38-3 NMSA 1978 with the municipal clerk. A municipality may provide by ordinance for a staggered system of business registration. C. Any person filing an application for issuance or renewal of any business license as authorized in Section 3-38-1 NMSA 1978 or any business registration as authorized in Section 3-38-3 NMSA 1978 shall include on the application the applicant's current taxation and revenue department taxpayer identification number or evidence of application for a current taxation and revenue department taxpayer identification number. No municipality shall issue or renew a business license or a business registration authorizing the conduct of a business to any person who has not furnished to the municipality the information required in this section. D. As used in this section, "child care facility" includes a licensed child care center, registered child care home, licensed family child care home or licensed group child care home as defined in Section 9-29-2 NMSA 1978. History: 1978 Comp., § 3-38-4, enacted by Laws 1981, ch. 37, § 4; 1993, ch. 196, § 2; 2026, ch. 62, § 3.