Beaumont, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Chapter 5.60 of the Beaumont Municipal Code regulates adult-oriented businesses in the City of Beaumont, Riverside County, California, with the Police Chief as the permitting authority. Section 5.60.030 requires an adult-oriented business regulatory permit to operate one and a separate performer permit for anyone giving a live performance depicting specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities. Section 5.60.040 requires applications on a City form with a nonrefundable fee set by Council resolution, a scaled interior sketch, and a drawing showing any other adult-oriented business within 500 feet of a public entrance and any church, school, park or residential zone or use within 500 feet of the primary entrance. Permits cannot be transferred without a new application and a transfer fee.

The Police Chief grants or denies an application within 30 days after a properly completed filing, as Section 5.60.040 provides. Permits expire one year after issuance, and renewal requests must be filed at least 30 days before expiration. Denial grounds include false statements, an applicant under 18, an unpaid fee or a location that fails the zoning rules, and performers are also denied for listed Penal Code convictions unless the conviction is more than five years old. Section 5.60.050 sets operating standards: open only between 8:00 a.m. and midnight except for businesses also regulated by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, no one under 18 admitted, parking and entries lit to one foot candle from dusk to two hours past closing, and at least one security guard at entertainment businesses, with an added guard for each additional 35 persons of occupancy. Live entertainment happens on a stage at least 18 inches high and ten feet from patrons.

Location is set separately in Title 17. Section 17.12.030 bars the establishment or substantial expansion of an adult arcade, bookstore, cabaret, motel, motion picture theater, theater or sexual encounter establishment within 1,000 feet of another such business or of any religious institution, school or public park, within 600 feet of residential property, or within 300 feet of commercial property. Section 17.12.040 measures distance in a straight line from the closest exterior wall, and Section 17.12.060 limits a business to one flush sign unless the Planning Commission or City Council approves more.