KCC §23-4.2

Which businesses do not need a county license

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This section lists specific types of businesses that do not need to get an annual county license or pay the annual county license fee. It covers sales, manufacturing, lodging, food, and transport activities. If your business is on this list, you are exempt from the license requirement.

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The ordinance, as written (Kauaʻi County) — Elimination of Business Licenses

A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Kauaʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

The following businesses are not required to obtain an annual County license or to pay an annual County license fee:The sale of beef or pork .The auction of goods, wares, and merchandise or other property .The manufacture of food products .The operation of a laundry, etc. .The keeping of a lodging or tenement house, hotel, boarding house or restaurant .The production, processing or preparation of milk .The sale of poisonous drugs, household remedies, etc. .The soliciting of orders or offering to sell or take orders for goods, wares, merchandise or service for immediate or future delivery in return for money .The providing of bail bond or surety for compensation .The carrying of freight and baggage .The carrying of passengers .

Read the official text at ecode360.com ↗as published Jan 1, 2026our copy taken Aug 22, 2026

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