What are the license fees to open a med spa in North Dakota?
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Short answer
Not a fixed price — the statute only caps fees: an establishment license up to $150 to open and $100 a year to renew, plus up to $50 for an esthetician or advanced esthetician license; the board sets the actual amounts below those ceilings.
North Dakota caps the cost of entry in statute rather than setting it, which is a different answer and has to be read as one. Fees to be paid by applicants as required under this chapter may not exceed the following amounts: a. Fees: Maximum fee: (1) Establishment, original license $150.00 (2) Establishment, annual renewal $100.00 per year These are ceilings the board may not exceed, not the amounts actually charged — the board sets the real figure beneath them by rule, so an operator should treat $150.00 as the most an establishment license can cost, not the price.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-11-28(2) (what it costs to open — statutory MAXIMUM fees, not set prices) · verified Sep 6, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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North Dakota answers the compounded-semaglutide question in the definition, and neither limb reaches a clinic buying stock. "Compounding" means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device: a. As the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order or initiative based on the practitioner, patient, and pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice; or b. For the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing. Limb (a) needs a prescription order resting on the practitioner-patient-pharmacist relationship; limb (b) is research and is expressly not for sale or dispensing.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-15-01 (definition of “Compounding” — two limbs, one of them not for sale) · verified Sep 6, 2026
Stock held ahead of the order is permitted, and what may justify it is fixed. Compounding also includes the preparation of drugs or devices in anticipation of prescription drug orders based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. The anticipation must rest on prescribing already observed.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-15-01 (anticipatory stock is allowed, bounded by observed prescribing) · verified Sep 6, 2026
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