Commercial Dance Studio (Recreational)

A commercial dance studio is any physical location or facility, regardless of its size, of an independent or a national or state-wide commercial, for profit, dance organization, business, company or corporation at which or in which commercial dance instruction is offered or conducted.  This ordinance does not apply to any dance studio that offers exclusively educational dance instruction or to any commercial dance studio which does business on a cash basis only and requires or receives less than two hundred fifty dollars in advance payments from or on behalf of each customer for commercial dance instruction or other services, or both, which are to be rendered by the studio in the future, and such advance payments are not required or received by the studio from each customer more frequently than once every thirty days.

1.      Confirm the proposed business location is within the Las Vegas city limits and properly zoned for this activity. For information on planning, zoning, and building requirements, call (702) 229-6301 or visit our Development Services Center at 731 South 4th Street.

2.      Make application for a Nevada sales/use tax permit and state business license from the Nevada Department of Taxation located at 555 East Washington Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101.  For additional information call (702) 486-2300 or visit their website at http://tax.state.nv.us/.

3.      Each commercial dance studio must register with the Nevada Consumer Affairs Division.  For more information visit the Consumer Affairs Division of the Nevada Department of Business and Industry at 1850 East Sahara Avenue #120, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89104.  Call (702) 486-7355 for more information.

4.      30 days prior to commencing business, bring a completed license application and all applicable items listed above to the Business Services Division, 400 Stewart Avenue, 3rd Floor (City Hall). 

5.      A $55.00 fee is due at the time the application is submitted.  ($25.00 semiannual license fee + $30.00 processing fee).  Make checks payable to CITY OF LAS VEGAS. (License fees are based on gross revenues and are due in advance semiannually.  A pick-up fee may be required if your gross revenue is more than $12,000 the first 6 months).

6.      Business license applications are sent to the Planning Department and Fire Department for review and inspection.  Upon approval from these agencies and completion of all items listed above, the Business Services Division will issue your business license.