Riverside has not enacted a local minimum wage, so the California statewide rate of 16.50 dollars per hour applies to almost all employees, with separate higher rates for fast-food and healthcare workers.
California Labor Code 1182.12 sets the statewide minimum at 16.50 dollars per hour as of 2026, indexed annually for inflation. Riverside has not exercised its home-rule authority to set a higher local floor. Industry-specific laws raise the floor for fast-food workers under AB 1228 and certain healthcare workers under SB 525. Tipped employees are not exempt from the full minimum wage in California. Many UCR-area employers also follow university-related living-wage standards on campus.
Paying below 16.50 dollars per hour, misclassifying workers as exempt, or violating fast-food or healthcare-specific floors exposes employers to back wages, penalties, and Labor Commissioner enforcement.
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RMC §7.35.010(B)(10) bars vehicle/motorcycle/motorboat/aircraft repair, rebuilding, modifying, or testing that disturbs across a residential line. Powered mo...
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Riverside Municipal Code Chapter 19.550 prohibits hazardous fence materials such as barbed wire, razor wire, and electrified fencing in residential zones, an...
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California SB 946 (Gov. Code §§ 51036-51039) decriminalized sidewalk vending statewide; cities may regulate but not ban outright. Riverside requires a Sidewa...
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Riverside Municipal Code § 9.08.090 prohibits model airplane flying, model rockets, and 'any game of a hazardous nature' inside any City park except where sp...
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Since July 1, 2022, Riverside's green cart is a combined organics cart: yard trimmings AND bagged food scraps go in the same brown-body/green-lid container p...
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Dumping trash, furniture, mattresses, construction debris, or yard waste on any street, lot, alley, or wash within Riverside violates both Riverside Municipa...
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