Logan, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Chapter 5.29 of the Logan Municipal Code regulates sexually oriented businesses in Logan City, Utah. Section 5.29.070 makes it unlawful to operate one without both a general business license and a sexually oriented business license, and the license names the type of business it covers. Section 5.29.100 sets four categories: outcall services, adult businesses, seminude entertainment businesses and seminude dancing agencies. A premises can hold only one category, with a single exception: outcall services and a seminude dancing agency can share premises. Employees need their own sexually oriented business employee license under § 5.29.110.

Location is tied to zoning. Section 5.29.060 allows adult businesses and seminude entertainment businesses only in areas zoned for their use under the zoning ordinance. The chapter does not list districts, so the zoning ordinance itself decides where a given address qualifies. Seminude entertainment carries an added spacing rule in § 5.29.260: no location within 600 feet of a business licensed for the sale or consumption of alcohol. Section 5.29.270 bans the sale, storage, supply or consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises of any licensed sexually oriented business.

Applications go to the city business license administrator. Fees come from the fee schedule set by Logan municipal council resolution, and an application is not complete until every fee is paid (§ 5.29.130). Each business license applicant posts a $2,000 cash or corporate surety bond (§ 5.29.140). Fines are taken from the bond if unpaid ten days after notice, and the bond must be replenished within fifteen days of a draw. The administrator must approve a license within thirty days of a completed application unless a listed ground applies, such as an applicant under eighteen, unpaid city taxes or fees, a false answer, or a disqualifying sex-related conviction within two years for a misdemeanor or five years for a felony. Agency review can add no more than fifteen days, and the total cannot exceed forty five days. If an adult or seminude license is not disapproved in time, the city issues it pending completion of review (§ 5.29.160). Licenses run through December 31 and fees are not prorated (§ 5.29.170).

Adult businesses also face premises design rules in § 5.29.240: a scaled diagram with the application, an unobstructed view from a manager's station of every patron area except restrooms, no video equipment or merchandise in restrooms, and overhead lighting of not less than one foot-candle at floor level whenever a patron is present. Seminude venues under § 5.29.250 cannot have beds or sofas in most rooms and must separate employees from patrons by a solid barrier at least three feet high.