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San Bernardino County

San Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of Supervisors

In short

San Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of Supervisors issues 3 permits we publish for San Bernardino County, last verified 2026-09-27. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Liquor License — State ABC License; County Planning Review Fee Applies (San Bernardino County)only if it applies to youSan Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of SupervisorsNo feenot applicable at the county level — the license itself is issued and renewed by the state2026-09-27
Child Care License — State Community Care Licensing; County Fire/Building Inspection Fees Apply (San Bernardino County)San Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of SupervisorsNo feenot applicable at the county level — the license itself is issued and renewed by the state2026-09-27
General Business License — San Bernardino County positiononly if it applies to youSan Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of SupervisorsNo feenot applicable — per the Clerk of the Board, the County does not issue a business license covering the entire County2026-09-27

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

Liquor License — State ABC License; County Planning Review Fee Applies (San Bernardino County)

The County's own Business Information document lists 'Liquor License — Alcoholic Beverage Control, 951-782-4400,' the state agency, and names no county-level alcohol license or registration, so the County charges no fee for an alcohol license. The County does have one fee tied to state alcohol licensing: the County Fee Ordinance effective July 1, 2026 (County Code §16.0215A, Planning) prices a flat $907.00 'ABC letter of convenience or necessity' and a $301.00 'Record review,' charged when the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control requires the County's input on an application in an over-concentrated or high-crime census tract. The County's fee and business-information documents do not say whether an on-site or off-site alcohol use in an unincorporated commercial zone also needs a full Planning Division Conditional Use Permit, as it does in many California counties; confirm that trigger for a specific parcel with LUS Planning.

Child Care License — State Community Care Licensing; County Fire/Building Inspection Fees Apply (San Bernardino County)

The County's own Business Information document lists 'Family Care (Adult and Child) — Community Care Licensing, 951-782-4200,' a California Department of Social Services function, and names no parallel county childcare license, so there is no county childcare license fee. Childcare is not fee-free at the county level, though: SBCoFD charges a 'Day Care Facility — Group E Occupancy' mandated fire inspection fee of $425 (fee schedule effective July 1, 2026, recorded separately for the County), and LUS Building & Safety separately charges a $385 'Day care home-family inspection' fee (County Fee Ordinance effective July 1, 2026) — both county fees layered on top of the state license, not licenses in themselves. Under California's Family Day Care Homes preemption statutes (Health & Safety Code §1597.40 et seq.), a small family day care home (up to eight children) is a use permitted by right in any residential zone and cannot be made subject to a discretionary county zoning permit or CUP; a large family day care home (nine to fourteen children) is a permitted use subject only to limited, specified local standards; the County's fee documents add no San Bernardino County-specific implementation detail to that state framework.

General Business License — San Bernardino County position

No fee applies. San Bernardino County's own County Business Information document states verbatim: 'The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors does not issue licenses for businesses operating in the unincorporated area of the County... ' The Clerk of the Board's County Business Information sheet, revised 02/05/2026, states in the same passage that San Bernardino County does not issue a business license that covers the entire County, and the Clerk's Business Licenses page repeats both statements. A business inside any of the County's incorporated cities must instead check that city's own licensing. An earlier version of the Assessor's FAQ page (April 2025) said the Clerk's office still licensed four narrow categories (peddler, solicitor, private patrol, taxicab) in the unincorporated area; the FAQ as updated June 26, 2026 instead states that as of 2025 the Clerk of the Board no longer issues licenses for businesses in the unincorporated area. The Business Information sheet routes taxicab enquiries to the Sheriff's Department and lists the businesses handled by Land Use Services Code Enforcement, and the County Fee Ordinance prices the peddler/secondhand-dealer license and the home occupation permit under Code Enforcement, recorded separately for San Bernardino County. The Clerk's statement does not extend to Land Use Services, Environmental Health Services or the Fire Protection District, each of which charges its own specific fees recorded separately for the County.

Contact

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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.

  1. Business Licenses — the Clerk of the Board's own page stating that San Bernardino County does not issue a business license that covers the entire CountySan Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of Supervisors · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  2. County Business Information (revised 02/05/2026) — states that the Clerk of the Board does not issue licenses for businesses in the unincorporated area and that the County does not issue a business license covering the entire County, and lists the state agencies for alcohol and family-care licensingSan Bernardino County Clerk of the Board of Supervisors · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  3. County Fee Ordinance FY 2026-27 (effective July 1, 2026), County Code §16.0204 Building & Safety fees — sign construction fees and the Day Care Home-Family Inspection feeSan Bernardino County Land Use Services Department, Building & Safety Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  4. County Fee Ordinance FY 2026-27 (effective July 1, 2026), County Code §16.0215A Planning fees — Conditional Use Permit ($16,468) and Minor Use Permit ($8,420) initial deposits, sign permit fees, and the ABC Letter of Convenience or Necessity and Record Review feesSan Bernardino County Land Use Services Department, Planning Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
  5. FAQ, 'What if my business is located in an unincorporated area?' (page last edited April 24, 2025) — an older, superseded list of four narrow COB licence categories, cited only to show what changedSan Bernardino County (Applicant Resource Center) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-27
  6. Fee Schedule, Fiscal Years 2026-27, 2027-28 and 2028-29, Attachment A (first year effective July 1, 2026) — Community Safety Division construction/operational/mandated-inspection fees (Sections A-F) and Hazardous Materials Division CUPA/hazmat/UST fees (Section G)San Bernardino County Fire Protection District · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08

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