Plymouth, MN Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

03 lists twelve licensed categories, including sexually oriented arcades, bookstores, cabarets, massage parlors, motels, theaters, escort agencies, nude model studios, and sexual encounter centers, and each is treated as a separate licensed use. 05 requires every such business to hold a City license before operating, with a 90-day window for existing businesses to come into compliance, and every owner with a 10-percent-or-greater interest must sign the application and pass a background check. 07 lets the City Manager deny a license for a disqualifying prostitution, obscenity, child-pornography, or criminal-sexual-conduct conviction within the preceding two years for a misdemeanor or five years for a felony, for zoning noncompliance, or for delinquent City taxes and fees.

03, Subd. 1 requires every sexually oriented use-principal to sit at least 250 feet from the property line of any residentially zoned parcel and 500 feet from a school property line, measured in a straight line from the closest building point, and bars two such uses from sharing one building or lot. 33, Subd. and noon on Sundays, and Subd. 1 keeps performers at least six feet from patrons on a platform raised two feet off the floor. 17.