Home Business in Louisiana (2026)

In unincorporated Ascension Parish, a customary home occupation is permitted in any zoning district under UDC Section…

Bossier Parish zoning limits a home occupation to work performed only by family members living in the dwelling…

A home occupation in unincorporated Caddo Parish needs a certificate of occupancy, has to be run by a resident of the…

A home occupation is a Conditional use approved through the City-Parish, subject to all the Section 9.4.5 conditions…

Jefferson Parish zoning (Chapter 40) permits home occupations in residential districts. Section 40-3 defines a home…

Lafayette limits home-based businesses to the "A" Agricultural, "RS" Single-Family, and "RM" Mixed Residential…

Lafayette City-Parish allows home occupations by right in "A," "RS," and "RM" zoning districts within the city, and as…

Lake Charles allows a home occupation in any residential dwelling as of right under Sec. 24-5-207(1), so long as it…

A New Orleans home occupation must be conducted entirely within the dwelling, be clearly incidental and secondary to…

Shreveport requires a certificate of occupancy for any home-based business, renewed every two years, and confines it to…

Running a business from home in unincorporated St. Tammany Parish requires development plan review under Sec…

Terrebonne Parish lets residents run a home occupation from a dwelling only if it stays incidental to the residence…

Shreveport bans any sign, display, or activity that shows from outside a house that it's being used for a home-based…

A home-based business in unincorporated Bossier Parish may post only a nameplate of one square foot or less. Section…

Caddo Parish caps home-based business signage at one identification sign no larger than two square feet under the…

The City-Parish Unified Development Code is blunt about home occupation signs: no signage may be erected. Nothing may…

A home-based business anywhere in Jefferson Parish can display exactly one sign: a non-illuminated nameplate no larger…

A home business in Lafayette may display exactly one sign, and nothing else. Sec. 89-83(e) of the Unified Development…

Lafayette City-Parish's home occupation rules cap home-business signage at one flat, non-illuminated sign attached to…

A Lake Charles home occupation can advertise itself with only a single non-illuminated name plate under Sec…

A New Orleans home occupation may display one home occupation sign in accordance with CZO Article 24; additional signs…

A home occupation in unincorporated Tangipahoa Parish's residential districts is limited to one nonilluminated…

A home occupation in a Terrebonne Parish R-1 Single-Family District may display only a nameplate of one square foot or…

A home-based business in unincorporated Caddo Parish can host no more than four clients, patients, pupils, or customers…

Jefferson Parish limits how many customers a home-based business can see at once: computer training is capped at one…

Lafayette caps home-based business foot traffic hard: Sec. 89-83(g) allows no more than ten customer or service visits…

Home occupations in Lafayette Parish are capped at one client at a time and no more than ten customer or service visits…

Lake Charles bars certain home occupations, like artist studios and offices for professionals, from generating any…

A Shreveport home-based business may see no more than four clients, patients, pupils, or customers at any one time, and…

A home office or home occupation in unincorporated St. Tammany Parish cannot draw more traffic than a house normally…

Louisiana does not issue a cottage food permit. La. R.S. 40:4.9(A)(1)(a) instead switches off the state Sanitary Code…

Louisiana's cottage food exemption, La. R.S. 40:4.9, lets Shreveport residents sell home-prepared low-risk foods…

Louisiana issues no microenterprise home kitchen permit. LAC 51:XXIII.501(A) forbids operating a food establishment of…

La. R.S. 17:407.31 et seq. and 17:407.61 et seq. require statewide licensing of early learning centers and…

A nursery, day care or kindergarten needs board of adjustment approval as a special exception before opening in Bossier…

Unincorporated St. Tammany Parish caps a home daycare at eight children under UDC Sec. 100-5's "Day Care Home"…

Ascension Parish allows teaching, music instruction and day care as customary home occupations in any zoning district…

Caddo Parish's Unified Development Code permits Day Care Homes by right in nearly every residential zoning district…

The City-Parish UDC defines a Day Care Center as a facility caring for seven or more unrelated individuals for part of…

A Jefferson Parish resident can run a licensed home daycare for up to six children as a home occupation, but the…

Lafayette lists "child care facility, residential" as a permitted [P] home occupation in the "A," "RS," "RM," and…

A state-licensed home daycare serving six or fewer children is a permitted home occupation in Lafayette Parish's…

Lake Charles allows a home day care as a permitted home occupation under Sec. 24-5-207(3)(e), but caps it at nine…

A home daycare is not treated as a home occupation in New Orleans, so it cannot rely on the home-based business…

Shreveport's Unified Development Code permits a day care home by right in every residential zoning district. The single…