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

Nassau County Code § 26½-4 makes it unlawful to operate a sexually oriented business in the county, or to work there as an employee, without a valid sexually oriented business license issued through the county administrator's office. The license classifications, set by § 26½-3, cover adult bookstores or video stores, adult cabarets, adult motels, adult motion picture theaters, semi-nude model studios, sexual device shops and sexual encounter centers. An application must include the applicant's legal name and aliases used in the past five years, a current address, proof of age, and a sworn disclosure of any conviction or guilty/no-contest plea to a 'specified criminal activity,' meaning sex offenses, drug offenses, incest, obscenity or distributing harmful material to minors within the prior five years.

Business applications also need a legal description of the property and a scaled floor-plan diagram. Under § 26½-6 the initial and annual renewal fee is $250 for a business license and $50 initial/$25 annual for an employee license. The county administrator must issue or deny a completed application within twenty days, issuing a temporary license immediately upon filing under § 26½-5. m. Monday through Saturday, or before noon on Sunday, per § 26½-13. Denial, suspension or revocation triggers a board of county commissioners hearing under § 26½-11, with the licensee entitled to counsel, evidence, cross-examination and a written decision within five days; an adverse decision doesn't take effect for thirty days and can be appealed to court.