Martin County, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

A defines 'adult business' broadly to cover adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult dancing establishments and adult motion picture theaters, plus any establishment whose employees display specified anatomical areas for consideration. C sets three separate 1,000-foot buffers, each measured by straight-line distance from the nearest point of the building housing the adult business to the nearest point of the protected use, without regard to intervening buildings: no adult business may open within 1,000 feet of any RE, RS, RM, MH, COR or Category B residential zoning district, or of a Rural, Estate, Low, Medium or High Density future land use boundary; none may open within 1,000 feet of another adult business; and none may open within 1,000 feet of a church or school, though that buffer lifts if the church or school itself has been at that location less than six months.

B layers on operating rules: all adult materials and any exposure of specified anatomical areas must stay inside the enclosed premises and out of view from doors or windows, no merchandise or signage depicting specified anatomical areas or sexual activity may be displayed where visible from a street, and the site needs a five-foot landscaped buffer with one tree per 50 feet along the street plus a four-to-eight-foot opaque fence, wall or hedge along adjoining private property. D separately makes it unlawful for an employee or patron to engage in specified sexual activities on or adjacent to the premises, or for an employee to touch a patron while exposing specified anatomical areas.