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Running a business from home in Elk Grove

Elk Grove requires a business license for most home businesses and allows only a home office for out-call massage businesses.

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Key points

  • Home businesses: Elk Grove requires a business license for most home businesses and allows only a home office for out-call massage businesses.

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

What Elk Grove's code says

Elk Grove code What Elk Grove's code adds
Customer visits
  • No more than 8 visitors a day.
    Applies: Part-time shoe repair; counts visitors who drop off or pick up items.
    § 23.82.050 · code text
    Shoe repair, on a part-time basis, providing that no more than eight (8) visitors a day either drop off or pick up such items.
Employees
  • Up to 1 full-time employee.
    Applies: Cottage food operations; family or household members do not count.
    § 23.82.050 · code text
    Cottage food operations, consistent with the requirements of the California Health and Safety Code and limited to one (1) full time employee, not including a family member or household member of the cottage food operation.
Permit
  • A business license is required.
    Applies: Unless the business is specifically exempt elsewhere in the city's business license rules.
    § 4.02.080 · code text
    Unless specifically exempt elsewhere in this chapter, a business license shall be required for any business or activity operated or conducted as a home occupation, as home occupation is defined by EGMC Chapter 23.82.
Businesses not allowed
  • massage services at the residence (only a home office for out-call massage is allowed)
    Applies: Home office use associated with a massage business exclusively providing out-call massage services
    § 23.82.050 · code text
    No massage services or clients associated with the massage business are permitted at the residence.

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Elk Grove requires a business license for most home businesses and allows only a home office for out-call massage businesses.

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