A cigarette dealer’s license is obtained in the County Auditor’s office. The fee is $125.00. To obtain the cigarette license you must also have a vendor’s license.

The license does not authorize the license to engage in the business of trafficking in cigarettes at any place of business in this state other than that specified by the Auditor. One license is good for one location.

Any person who employs the use of a motor vehicle to convey a supply of cigarette from place to place for the purpose of offering cigarettes for sale must obtain a license for each vehicle in each county in which any vehicle is used.

In the event that a business is moved from one location to another, or the business is sold, or an individual or partnership incorporates, or a partnership or corporation is dissolved, the cigarette license which has been issued to a dealer prior to the occurrence of any such event may not be used.

The cost of the Wholesale Cigarette License is $1,000 annually but wholesale licenses can only be purchased directly from the Ohio Department of Taxation. More information can be found on the department's Web site at :http://www.tax.ohio.gov/divisions/excise/cigarettes/index.stm 

Cigarette licenses are to be displayed near the product being sold for easy inspection. If cigarettes are being sold in your place of business and you do not have a license or your vending machine does not have one displayed, please contact the county Auditor’s office.

If you wish to print a cigarette application, please click below:.

Pike County Government Center
230 Waverly Plaza Suite 200
Waverly, OH 45690-1222
740 947 2713