Bonner County, ID Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Bonner County Revised Code § 12-491 regulates adult entertainment uses as a land use under Title 12. Its stated intent is to provide appropriate locations that minimize impacts to the character of residential neighborhoods, to minimize exposure of such facilities to minors, to keep such uses from blighting the districts where they are permitted, and to provide measures that minimize incidents of crime associated with such uses.

Spacing is the core rule in subsection B.7. No adult entertainment use is permitted within five hundred feet (500') of the center of any of its public entrances to the center of any public entrance to any establishment serving or selling alcoholic beverages, and vice versa. It is also barred within two thousand five hundred feet (2,500') of the center of any public entrance to a school, library, church, park, playground, hospital, medical clinic, nursing home or daycare facility. Distance is measured along the shortest route along the street or highway between the points where lines perpendicular to the centers of the public entrances intersect with the street or highway.

Operating standards come with the spacing. Promotional materials depicting or describing specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities cannot be visible from areas open to the general public. Building openings, entries and windows must be located, covered or screened to prevent a view into the interior. Every entrance must be clearly and legibly posted with a notice that minors are prohibited from entering. No loudspeakers or sound equipment can amplify sound to a level discernible by the public beyond the building walls. Parking areas, walkways and building entries must be lit during all business hours to greater than one foot-candle on the surface, and all exterior areas must be kept free of litter. The section was adopted in Ordinance 501 on November 18, 2008. It applies in unincorporated Bonner County only.