Hinds County, MS Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

02) to Industrial I-2 zoning districts, the county's heaviest industrial classification. The site must be directly accessible from a state highway and the business must operate from a single-occupancy commercial building meeting all Hinds County Building and Safety Codes; it cannot share a building with another adult business. The building must be tied into the water and sewer system of a municipality or certificated utility, meaning private well-and-septic sites do not qualify. Operators must post all state and county licenses and permits, along with the minimum admittance age, on the entry doors.

02 as a straight line from the nearest wall of the adult-business building to the nearest property line of the protected use, from eleven categories of sites: churches and places of worship, schools from pre-K through college, government facilities, platted residential subdivisions, occupied residential lots outside a subdivision, parks and recreation facilities, libraries and historic sites, licensed day cares, hospitals and clinics, nursing homes, and any other adult entertainment business. 03 measures the business-to-business gap between the closest exterior walls of each structure. Section 2701 states the purpose is dispersing these uses to avoid secondary effects like concentrated late-night traffic, not suppressing protected speech.

Any use, structure or zoning change of this kind requires review by the Hinds County Department of Permit and Zoning before a certificate is issued.