Tulsa, OK Home Business: Customer Traffic Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Client limit
- 3 clients/customers at a time
- Approval required
- Special exception, Board of Adjustment
- Employees allowed
- 1 nonresident, only if no clients
- Governing code
- Tulsa Zoning Code § 45.100
- Max penalty
- $1,200 fine or 6 months jail
Summary
Tulsa caps type 2 home occupations at three on-site clients or customers at a time and requires special exception approval before clients can visit.
No more than three (3) clients or customers may be present at any one time on the site of a type 2 home occupation. Family members of the client or customer are not counted towards the three-person limit.4.A maximum of one nonresident employee is allowed with a type 2 home occupation if no customers or clients come to the site at any time. Home occupations that have clients, customers or students coming to the site may not have nonresident employees and vice-versa. For the purpose of this provision, the term "nonresident employee" includes an employee, contractor, business partner, co-owner or any other person affiliated with the home occupation, who does not live at the site, but who visits the site as part of the home occupation.5.Type 2 home occupations and all related activities, including storage (other than the lawful parking of passenger vehicles), must be conducted entirely within the principal residential building or an allowed accessory building.
Full Breakdown
Tulsa's zoning code splits home-based work into two types. Type 1 home occupations bar any clients, customers, or employees from visiting at all, only residents can work there. Type 2 home occupations, where customers or employees do come to the site, require special exception approval from the Board of Adjustment under Section 70.120 and cap the crowd at three clients or customers present at any one time, not counting their family members. A type 2 home occupation gets one nonresident employee, but only if no customers or clients ever visit, the code doesn't allow both at once.
Violations & Fines
Zoning violations are misdemeanors punishable by up to a $1,200 fine and six months in jail per offense; the city can also issue stop-work orders, revoke permits, and pursue injunctions under Section 85.040.
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