• Amusement center

• Amusement games

• Animal and poultry

• Automobile Service Facilities

• Bars

• Billiard room

• Bowling center

• Certificate of Occupancy

• Entertainment center

• Explosives handling (contact RFD)

• Fire extinguisher maintenance and testing (contact RFD)

• Going out of business

• Hotel or motel

• Junk dealer

• Junk yard operator

• Pawnbroker

• Pump and tank installation and maintenance (contact RFD)

• Restaurants

• Salons

• Scrap processor

• Secondhand dealer

• Sexually oriented business

• Sexually oriented business manager/ employee

• Solicitor's (and food trucks)

• Taxicab drive

• Taxicab hackplate

• Taxicab livery

• Tobacco Retailers, Hookah Lounges, and Vaping Stores

• Towing

Required to legally practice certain trades and professions in the City of Rochester.

• Commissioner of Deeds
• Electrician
• Plumbing
• Stationary engineering and refrigeration operators
• Sexually oriented business manager or employee
• Taxi

• Vacant lot gardening
• Right of way permitting
• Special Events
• Lodge or field rentals
• Atrium photography
• Water hydrant use
• Marriage ceremony at City Hall

To operate certain equipment or to store or handle potentially dangerous materials.

• Alarm permit
• Certificate of Occupancy
• Fire operational permits (contact RFD)
• Fireworks display permit (contact RFD)
• Hotworks permit (contact RFD)
• Conveyance or elevator certification