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

Sec. 11-24 of the Leon County Code makes it unlawful to combine nude or semi-nude entertainment with any commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed, consumed, possessed, or merely available for sale or consumption, whether or not a sale actually occurs. Sec. 11-19 defines nude or semi-nude entertainment as the actual or simulated display of genitals, pubic area, buttocks, anus or anal cleft, or the display by a woman of the breast at or below the areola. The same section defines 'premises' broadly: it reaches not just the building itself but any structure or land within 300 feet of it that shares common ownership, control or possession, so a business cannot dodge the rule by staging entertainment in a separate building on the same lot.

Beyond outright nudity, Sec. 11-24 separately bans simulated sexual activity while dancing for a patron, sitting or straddling a patron's lap while touching or being touched, and using or maintaining any partitioned or screened area designed for private dancing or sexual contact; owners and operators are equally liable if they merely permit staff or patrons to do these things. Outside advertising that solicits or promotes the banned conduct is also prohibited. The Board of County Commissioners adopted the article, per Sec. 11-21 and 11-22, on findings that combining alcohol with nude entertainment increases criminal activity, moral degradation and disturbances of the peace, and depreciates the value of adjoining property, exercising the county's home-rule and alcoholic-beverage-regulation authority under Fla. art. 01(1)(o) and (w).