Brick, NJ Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Buffer distance
- 1,500 feet
- Protected uses
- Churches, schools, parks, homes, other SOBs
- Minimum fine
- $100 per offense
- Governing chapter
- Township Code Ch. 362
Summary
Brick Township bans sexually oriented businesses within 1,500 feet of churches, schools, parks, homes, and each other, per Chapter 362 of the Township Code.
It shall be a violation of this chapter if a person operates or causes to operate or allows to be operated a sexually oriented business:
(1) Within 1,500 feet of a place of worship.
(2) Within 1,500 feet of a school, whether public or private, or within 1,500 feet of any school bus stop.
(3) Within 1,500 feet of a boundary of growth area, village or rural development district or zone.
(4) Within 1,500 feet of any other sexually oriented business.
(5) Within 1,500 feet of any residential use, or zone.
(6) Within 1,500 feet of any public park or playground.
B. Measurements shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted to the nearest property line of the premises of a place of worship, a school, a boundary of a residential district, a public park or playground, a lot devoted to residential use or a school bus stop.
C. A sexually oriented business lawfully operating as a conforming use is not rendered a nonconforming use by the location, subsequent to the establishment of the sexually oriented business, of a place of worship, school, public area, residential district or residential lot within 1,500 feet of the sexually oriented business.
D.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4577344; v53 updated 2025-12-09; through 12-09-2025).
Full Breakdown
Under Township Code Chapter 362, a sexually oriented business cannot operate within 1,500 feet of a place of worship, a public or private school or school bus stop, a growth-area/village/rural-development district boundary, another sexually oriented business, any residential use or zone, or a public park or playground. Distances are measured in a straight line, ignoring intervening structures, from the building housing the business to the nearest property line of the protected use. A conforming business isn't rendered nonconforming if one of these uses moves in nearby afterward.
Violations & Fines
Violations are fined a minimum of $100 per offense; each day of unlawful operation, and each film, videocassette, or live-entertainment showing, is a separate offense under § 362-6.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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