The Marquette City Code establishes regulations and processes for various types of businesses operating within the City. These licensing practices are detailed throughout multiple chapters in the City Code, making it needlessly complex for business owners and City staff to navigate. With this in mind, City staff conducted a review of several chapters of City Code related to businesses and business licensing.

Following this review, staff drafted the proposed ordinance, aimed at streamlining regulations and integrating most business license types into a single cohesive chapter, enhancing both accessibility and efficiency. This ordinance is not intended to implement significant changes for business owners, but to simplify the licensing framework. This ordinance would also repeal sections of City Code regarding business activities where regulation is not deemed necessary. 

A summary of changes is attached, as is a copy of Ordinance 25-04.

Per City Charter, an ordinance cannot be adopted at the meeting at which it is introduced. This ordinance was first introduced at the Commission's April 14, 2025 meeting.