Hollywood, FL Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)

21 sets the conditions attached to a home-based local business tax receipt, and condition (B) states plainly that no current or prospective client or customer of the business shall be allowed on the home premises. The bar is absolute; there is no threshold number of visits, scheduled-appointment exception, or occasional-meeting allowance written into the section. The condition sits alongside the section's broader requirement that the home occupation remain undetectable from outside the house and not change the residential character of the community, and alongside the separate advertising restriction in (C) and the one-employee cap in (D).

A Hollywood resident whose business model depends on receiving customers at the property, such as a salon chair, tutoring sessions, or retail pickups, cannot structure that business as a home-based tax receipt; it needs a commercial location and the corresponding commercial local business tax receipt and zoning approval instead. Enforcement runs through the same office that issues the receipt: the Director of Financial Services can decline an application or revoke an existing receipt on evidence that clients are visiting the property, since the applicant certifies compliance with all listed conditions at the time of application. The condition traces to Ord. O-95-44 (passed 7-26-95), amended by Ord. O-2007-07 (passed 4-18-07).