Kern County
Kern County Sheriff's Office, Licensing Unit
In short
Kern County Sheriff's Office, Licensing Unit issues 1 permit we publish for Kern County, last verified 2026-10-02. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Business License (Massage Establishment / Massage-Related Business)only if it applies to you | Kern County Sheriff's Office, Licensing Unit | Massage Establishment: $166.00 initial, $75.00 annual renewal (Kern County Code Table 5.04.160, line 15). A business providing massage or related services other than a dedicated massage establishment: $136.00 initial, $75.00 annual renewal (Table 5.04.160, line 16). | annual, terminating one year after issuance (Kern County Code §5.04.210) | 2026-10-02 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
General Business License (Massage Establishment / Massage-Related Business)
Kern County Code §5.04.020 enumerates the specific business types that need this Title 5 license in unincorporated Kern County: loose vehicle parts dealer, carnival, circus, fortuneteller/clairvoyant, itinerant peddler, locksmith, weapons dealer, taxicab service/driver, shooting galleries/games of skill, swap meets, commercial photographer without a fixed place of business, temporary business, street vendor, and massage establishment. None of the other nine tracked industries — restaurant, coffee-shop, food-truck, retail-store, childcare, fitness-studio, contractor, auto-repair, veterinary — appear on that list, so a salon is the only tracked industry this chapter reaches, and only when it operates as a 'massage establishment' or provides massage or related services beyond the barber/cosmetologist exemption described in the Home Occupation and Massage Establishment Permit records below. A massage establishment also needs the separate Ch. 8.70 Massage Establishment Permit from Public Health Services before this license issues, per §5.04.020 item P. The license term runs one year from issuance under §5.04.210, and §5.04.080 requires Kern Planning to confirm zoning-ordinance compliance before this license is granted, which is billed as the separate Zoning Compliance Review companion fee recorded next.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Kern County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
- Website
- www.kernsheriff.org/
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Kern County Code Chapter 5.04 (Business Licenses Generally) — the enumerated list of licensed business types in §5.04.020, the Massage Establishment and related fee table in §5.04.160, and the annual term in §5.04.210Kern County, via Municode (Kern County Municipal Code) · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
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