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FAQ! Am I doing businses in the City of New Castle City Limits. Click here for map of City Limits.
If your business is located in City Limits of New Castle, or you do business within the City Limits you are required to obtain a City of New Castle Business License each year. Please complete the below information and return to the above address together with payment.
If this application is received after February 1st, a late fee may be assessed at 10% per month. A Surety Bond may be required per City Code § 156-2 and § 156-3, attached for your reference.
Note: A service charge made by Stripe.com applies to each transaction. The amount of this charge will be provided to the cardholder for acknowledgment and acceptance prior to completion of a transaction. This processing fee is .30¢ per transaction plus 3% of the transaction amount.
Bond Information, please read carefully and Click on Bond Waiver option below.
The City Council of New Castle found that it was necessary to determine what businesses were operating within the City of New Castle.
An orderly way to determine whether those businesses are in conformity with the laws of New Castle is to request a license.
Occupations which in the opinion of the City Building Department Director have a reasonable potential for danger to the health and safety of the community, by virtue of their regulation/licensing by the state and/or the nature of the business activity occurring in the city. Such occupations shall include, but not be limited to: cesspool or septic tank installation or maintenance contractor, drain layer, electrical contractor, excavation contractor, fire sprinkler or fire alarm installation contractor, fumigator, fitter, gas appliance installation, refrigeration contractor, general contractor, house wrecker/demolition contractor, roofing, siding or insulation contractor, heating/sheet metal or air conditioning installation or repair contractor, painting contractor, plumber, sewer and water and other utility contractors, sidewalk or cement/masonry installation contractor, highway permit/street obstruction, sign contractors, tree trimmer, well drilling contractors. Other occupations also determined to require bonding include solicitor, transient merchant, insurance claim adjustor or investigator, auctioneer, junk dealer/second hand dealer, peddler, pawnbroker, garbage disposal, public mover, insurance broker.
Any and all activities or acts on the part of any person for which it is necessary to obtain a license from the Division of Revenue of the State of Delaware, whether that person has obtained a license or not. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, business shall not include the following occupations, to wit: real estate salespersons, sales representatives, beauticians, except that the firms employing those persons shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
An individual, partnership, corporation, firm or any other entity doing business.
§ 156-3 License required; bond.
No person shall engage in any business or perform any act in connection therewith or preparatory thereto within the City of New Castle until a license is obtained in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
§ 156-4 Application for license.
Any person desiring to engage in any business carried on or engaged in within the city shall apply to the city office for a license on a form to be supplied by the city office. The application shall be prepared by the applicant, in writing, and shall state all required information under oath.
The facts contained in the application shall be as of January 1 in the year the application is made.
(1) The person to whom the license is issued, and his or her employer identification number or social security number.
(2) The kind of business, profession, pursuit or calling licensed thereby.
(3) The location of such business.
(4) The date of expiration of such license.
Every business, as defined in § 156-2, shall pay an annual city license fee, which will be set by the City Council from time to time.
§ 156-6 Duration of license.
Licenses shall be for a period of one year running from January 1 through December 31.
§ 156-7 Conditions for issuance.
No license shall be issued unless the business for which the license is being issued complies with the provisions of Chapter 230, Zoning, and all other ordinances, regulations or laws of the City of New Castle.
Notwithstanding Subsection A of this section, no license issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the conduct or continuance of any illegal or unlawful business under the laws of the State of Delaware or the City of New Castle.
§ 156-8 Posting of license.
Every licensee shall post his/her license in a conspicuous place where the license may be readily seen in his/her place of business.
§ 156-9 Penalty for failure to pay license fee.
In the event that any person shall fail to pay a license fee when required under this chapter, a penalty of 10% per month on the original fee shall be exacted. All license fees shall be payable before January 1 for the year for which they are issued.
§ 156-10 Violations and penalties.
Any person operating a business within the City of New Castle without a license shall be fined not more than $100. Each day a person is in violation shall constitute a separate offense.
It is the intent of this chapter to regulate businesses, and not the employees of those businesses. A license shall not be required by the employee, so long as the business obtains a license.
BOND WAIVER: A waiver of the bonding requirement may be granted by the Building Official, upon written application, when, in the opinion of the Building Official, the nature of the particular business activity itself does not pose a danger to the health and safety of the community, or the value of the particular business activity is so small as to pose an insignificant risk to the health and safety of the community. When a waiver is granted for any construction activity, each subsequent building permit applied for will require approval of an additional written application for a waiver of bonding requirement or the submission of an acceptable bond.
The particular business activity itself does not have a reasonable potential for danger to the health and safety of the community.
The value of the particular business activity is so small as to pose an insignificant risk to the health and safety of the community.
My bond is on file with the City of New Castle; or attached to this application. If uploading a copy of the bond, the original will need to be mailed to the City office. My bond is on file with the City of New Castle; or attached to this application. If uploading a copy of the bond, the original will need to be mailed to the City office.
Please submit a copy of your bond.

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