Eagle Mountain, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Business license fee
- $3,000 application plus $1,500 annual
- Employee license fee
- $300.00 annual
- Spacing rule
- 2,500 ft from schools, churches, parks, libraries
- Wrong-zone violation
- Class C misdemeanor
- Other Chapter 5.20 violations
- Class B misdemeanor
- Restricted hours
- Closed 1:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Summary
Eagle Mountain requires a separate sexually oriented business license under EMMC 5.20.040, on top of any zoning approval, and bars these businesses from locating within 2,500 feet of any school, church, library, playground or park under EMMC 5.20.050(O). Operating outside a zone that allows the use is a Class C misdemeanor.
O. Sexually oriented businesses may not be established within 2,500 feet of any public or private school, church, public library, public playground, school playground, or park (a “restricted facility”) as measured from the nearest entrance of the business premises by following the shortest route of either ordinary pedestrian traffic or, where applicable, vehicular travel along public thoroughfares, whichever is the closer to the property boundary of the restricted facility.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance O-34-2026, passed August 4, 2026).
Full Breakdown
030. 040: operating without a valid license, employing an unlicensed worker, or working without an employee license are each unlawful. 050(B). 050(O) sets a hard distance rule: a sexually oriented business may not be established within 2,500 feet of any public or private school, church, public library, public playground, school playground, or park, measured along the shortest pedestrian or vehicular route to the property boundary of that facility. 120 makes it a Class C misdemeanor to operate in a zoning district that does not specifically permit the use. 060(C). m. 050(J).
Violations & Fines
Operating without a valid business or employee license, or operating in a zoning district that does not permit the use, is a Class C misdemeanor under EMMC 5.20.120. Violating any of the other operating rules in Chapter 5.20, including employee-licensing and viewing-room standards, is a Class B misdemeanor under EMMC 5.20.180, and the city can also seek an injunction, with each day of continued operation counted as a separate offense.
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