North Las Vegas, NV Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- NLVMC 17.20.030.F.7.b(iii)(7) and (iv)(8)
- General home occupation rule
- No house calls at the dwelling
- Office-track rule
- No customer/client visits at all
- Applies to office track
- Two-family, tiny house, multifamily units
- Enforcement
- 17.28.200 misdemeanor, up to $1,000/6 months
Summary
A general home occupation in North Las Vegas cannot make "house calls" at or in front of the dwelling, and an office run as a home occupation in a two-family, tiny house, or multifamily unit is barred outright from letting any customer or client visit the home for business.
(iii)(7)At or in front of the dwelling unit of the home occupation, there shall be no exterior display, no exterior storage of merchandise, inventory, equipment or materials, no exterior deposition of waste materials, except that which is placed at the curb the day of garbage pickup, no window display, including signage on the dwelling unit or vehicles, no house calls, nor other indication from the exterior that a dwelling unit is being used in part for any use other than that of a dwelling unit for purely residential purposes. ... (iv)(8)No home occupation shall allow for customers or clients to visit the dwelling for business purposes.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 146 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
b splits home-based businesses into two tracks with different client-contact rules. For standard home occupations (subsection iii), item 7 bars a long list of exterior business indicators, no exterior display, no exterior storage of merchandise or equipment, no window display or signage, and specifically "no house calls", at or in front of the dwelling, on top of a ban on any outside sign that the home is used for anything but residential purposes. a, the business must stay secondary to the home's residential character, and both require a home occupation permit from the Community Development Department and a current business license before opening.
In practice, a home occupation in a single-family or duplex-style dwelling can travel out to make house calls but cannot receive clients at the property, while an office-type home occupation in a multifamily setting cannot have client contact at the dwelling in either direction.
Violations & Fines
Allowing house calls or client visits in violation of F.7.b is enforced as a zoning violation under NLVMC 17.28.200: the Director issues a written correction order, appealable to the Planning Commission under Section 17.12.040.G, and an uncorrected violation is a misdemeanor carrying up to a $1,000 fine, up to six months in jail, or both, with continuing noncompliance counted as a separate offense each day.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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