Lodi, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

40 regulates adult-oriented businesses across eight articles. 020 sets the spacing rule: no adult-oriented business may locate within 1,000 feet of a church, school, playground, child care center, residentially zoned property, or another adult-oriented business, with distance measured in a straight line between the closest exterior walls of each use, ignoring intervening structures. 030 and may continue only under that section's limits. 310) require every adult-oriented business to hold a license issued by the chief of police. An applicant files with the chief of police, pays a nonrefundable application, investigation and licensing fee set by council resolution, and receives a 30-business-day temporary license once the application is complete; the chief of police must grant or deny a regular license within 30 business days of a complete filing, and a regular license runs one year and must be posted at the entrance.

410) separately requires every employee who performs in or works at the business to obtain an employee license, also valid one year, reviewed within 15 business days. , excluding patrons during those hours. 815 bans outcall adult-oriented business entirely, so specified sexual activity or nudity covered by the chapter must occur on licensed premises.