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

Article II of Chapter 10 regulates adult entertainment in unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia only; Carrollton, Villa Rica and the county's other cities license these uses, if at all, under their own codes. Section 10-41 makes it unlawful to operate an adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater, adult dancing or erotic dance establishment without a permit from the county, and a permit does not excuse any activity that is otherwise illegal under state or federal law. Section 10-74 sets the siting rule: no permitted establishment may sit within 1,000 feet of any parcel used or zoned for residential purposes, within 1,000 feet of a church, school, government building, library, civic center, park or playground, within 1,000 feet of another adult entertainment establishment, or within 1,000 feet of any other alcohol-selling business, and the site itself must be at least three acres with 100 feet of road frontage, with distance measured airline from the closest property lines.

00 application and renewal fee set by § 10-49. The board of commissioners has 30 days to investigate under § 10-47 and may deny a permit for a disqualifying criminal record or if the site fails the distance test; a denial can be appealed under § 10-48. , bar dancers under 21, keep dancing at least ten feet from patrons on a platform raised two feet, and file an annual gross-receipts report by March 1 under § 10-71.