Running a business from home in Palmdale: the local rules

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

What Palmdale's code says

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Customer visits	No customers, clients or visitors may come for the business. Applies: Except for individual instruction, such as academic tutoring or music lessons. § 17.26.060 · code text There shall be no customers, clients, or visitors coming to the residence for purposes of the home occupation except for the purpose of individual instruction including but not limited to academic tutoring or music lessons;
Employees	Only residents of the home may be employed on the premises. § 17.26.060 · code text No one other than a resident of the dwelling shall be employed on the premises in the conduct of a home occupation;
Permit	A home occupation clearance. § 17.26.060 · code text No home occupation may occur and no approval for a home occupation shall be issued unless the procedures and criteria specified in this Title are satisfied. A current city business license. § 17.26.060 · code text The operator of a home occupation shall obtain and maintain a current business license from the City;
Businesses not allowed	sale or storage of firearms, ordnance, ammunition, or other weapons regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Applies: at the site of the home occupation § 17.26.060 · code text No home occupation shall include the sale or storage of firearms, ordnance, ammunition, or other weapons which are regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, at the site of the home occupation. auto repair, auto body, or engine work Applies: mobile businesses operating with a home occupation clearance § 17.26.060 · code text no mobile business operating with a home occupation clearance shall be allowed to conduct auto repair, auto body, or engine work;

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Home occupations need a home occupation clearance and city business license; no customers except for tutoring or lessons, and only resident employees.

Running a business from home in Palmdale

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