Rialto, CA Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

45 (as amended by SB 234) provides that the use of a home as a small or large family daycare home is a residential use of property and a use by right for purposes of all local ordinances, including zoning, and prohibits any local jurisdiction from imposing a business license, fee, or tax for the privilege of operating one. 78 defines a family daycare home as a facility regularly providing care for 14 or fewer children in the provider's own home for periods of less than 24 hours per day, with small family daycare homes serving eight or fewer children and large family daycare homes serving 7 to 14 children, counts that include resident children under 10.

040(D) states that the home occupation chapter does not apply to any child care institution, day care center, group home, or day care home duly licensed by the appropriate federal, state, or local agency. Providers must still obtain a state child care license from the California Department of Social Services.