Las Vegas, NV Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- General rule
- No customer transactions on-site
- Exceptions
- Cottage food/cosmetics; dog/cat breeding only
- Customer cap
- 2 customers on property at a time
- Yard-sale carve-out
- Unlimited customers under LVMC 19.12.020(B)(1)
- Breeding condition
- Must also comply with LVMC Title 7
- Traffic limit
- No traffic beyond normal residential levels
Summary
Las Vegas home occupations generally cannot receive customers on-site at all. Only a cottage food operation, cottage cosmetics operation, or licensed dog/cat breeding approved under a Home Occupation Permit may have walk-in customers, and even those are capped at two people on the property at any one time under LVMC 19.16.180(G)(1)(c).
There shall be no transacting of business or offers to transact business with customers or clients who have come to the property except in connection with: A cottage food operation or a cottage cosmetics operation that complies with the following limitations: No more than two customers may be present on the property at any one time, except as permitted as part of a garage or yard sale ...; or The breeding of domestic dogs and cats, but only to the extent in compliance with the following limitations: No more than two customers may be present on the property at any one time; and The use must comply with all applicable provisions of LVMC Title 7;
Full Breakdown
Home occupations in Las Vegas are built around keeping customers off the property. LVMC 19.16.180(G)(1)(c) bars "transacting of business or offers to transact business with customers or clients who have come to the property" except for two narrow categories permitted under a Home Occupation Permit: a cottage food or cottage cosmetics operation, and the breeding of domestic dogs and cats. Both are capped at no more than two customers present on the property at any one time.
The cottage food/cosmetics exception has its own carve-out: the outdoor sale of food or cosmetic items may draw an unlimited number of customers, but only when run as a garage or yard sale under LVMC 19.12.020(B)(1)'s separate provisions, not as a standing retail operation. The pet-breeding exception requires the operator to also comply with all applicable provisions of LVMC Title 7, the city's animal code, on top of the two-customer cap.
Beyond the numeric cap, LVMC 19.16.180(G)(1)(f) requires that a home occupation "not create pedestrian, automobile or truck traffic in excess of the normal amount associated with residential uses in the district." Any home business that draws walk-in customers outside the cottage food, cosmetics or pet-breeding exceptions, or that generates noticeable traffic, exceeds what the Director can approve and is a permit violation.
Violations & Fines
Exceeding the two-customer cap, hosting walk-in customers for a business type not on the exception list, or generating traffic beyond normal residential levels violates the Home Occupation Permit's operational standards and is a misdemeanor under LVMC 19.00.090. The City may also review, condition, suspend or revoke the permit through administrative action, and can pursue nuisance abatement against a business that keeps drawing customers past what its permit allows.
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