Bulloch County, GA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

5, Article II regulates adult entertainment establishments, defined to include adult bookstores, adult dancing and motion picture establishments, bath houses, escort bureaus and similar businesses. Sec. 5-26(a) makes it unlawful for any person, association, partnership or corporation to engage in, conduct or carry on an adult entertainment establishment in the unincorporated area without a license, and a license issued under the article never legalizes activity otherwise illegal under state or federal law. Sec. 00 application fee paid to the county clerk before the sheriff's department conducts a background investigation under Sec.

5-35, which can take up to 30 days before the board of commissioners considers the application. Sec. 5-30 sets locational limits: no adult entertainment establishment may sit within 1,000 feet of land zoned or used for residential purposes, within 1,000 feet of a church, school, college campus, government building, library, civic center, day care, park or playground, within 1,000 feet of another adult establishment, within 1,000 feet of an establishment licensed to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption, or in any zoning district other than as a conditional use in the general commercial (GC) or highway commercial (HC) districts.

Distance is measured by airline measurement between the nearest part of the establishment's premises and the closest property line of the parcel involved. 00 under Sec. 5-38, and the license may not be sold, transferred or assigned under Sec. 5-39.