Running a business from home in San Jacinto: the local rules

Each rule below links to the section of the San Jacinto Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What San Jacinto's code says

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Customer visits	No customers or clients may visit the site. Applies: Business, professional and sales offices, not including medical, dental and similar uses with regular patient visits. § 17.615.040 · code text provided that no in-person retail sales transactions are made on the premises and that no customers or clients visit the site, except as specifically allowed by this section. No more than 1 customer receiving services at any given time. Applies: Barber or beauty services. § 17.615.040 · code text Barber or Beauty Services with no more than one customer receiving services at any given time. No more than 1 pupil receiving instruction at any given time. Applies: Lessons in academics, music, voice, art, dance or similar activities. § 17.615.040 · code text Instruction in academia, music, voice, art, dance or similar activities with no more than one pupil receiving instruction at any given time.
Permit	A business license is required. Applies: A new business license is needed before changing to a different type of home business activity. § 17.615.100 · code text A change in the type of home occupation activity (e.g., a change from one allowed activity to another allowed activity) conducted by the original resident/permittee shall also require a new business license before conducting an allowed home occupation. Approval of the Riverside County Health Department is required. Applies: Home catering and food preparation businesses. § 17.615.040 · code text Home catering and food preparation businesses, subject to the approval of the Riverside County Health Department.
Businesses not allowed	adult businesses; alcohol sales; ammunition, explosives, or fireworks sales, use, or manufacturing; commercial breeding, boarding, grooming, harboring, kenneling, raising, and/or training of dogs, cats, or other animals on the premises; on-site carpentry and cabinet making; cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, testing or sale of cannabis or cannabis products; dance clubs/night clubs; commercial food preparation; fortune telling; lawn mower and/or small engine repair; noncertified massage practitioners; medical, dental and veterinary offices, clinics, and laboratories; mini storage; plant nurseries; private clubs; retail or wholesale sales of products stored at the residence; storage and/or sales of equipment, materials, and other accessories to the construction and service trades; tattoo and body piercing; television, radio, or appliance repair; tobacco/hookah lounges/parlors; tow truck services; vehicle repair, upholstery, automobile detailing, and painting; vehicle sales; welding and machining; and other similar uses determined by the Director not to be incidental to or compatible with residential activities § 17.615.050 · code text Irrespective of Section 17.615.040 (Allowed Home Occupations) above, the following uses are not incidental to or compatible with residential activities and are prohibited as home occupations:

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Home offices may not have client visits; barber services and lessons allow 1 customer or pupil at a time; a business license is required.

Running a business from home in San Jacinto

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