Port St. Lucie, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Chapter 113, the 'Adult Entertainment Code,' applies to ten defined classifications, including adult bookstores, adult theaters, adult cabarets, adult arcades, adult motels, escort services, adult performance establishments and adult encounter centers, and Sec. 20 makes it a misdemeanor to operate any of them without a department-issued permit specific to that classification; only one classification may be permitted per location. Sec. 00 nonrefundable application fee, with up to two 20-day windows to correct a defective application. Sec. 22 routes the application to the fire, police, building and planning and zoning departments for investigation, and Sec.

23 gives the department 45 days to grant or deny it; a denial within the prior nine months for the same location and facts blocks a new application. 00 annually under Sec. 00 transfer fee under Sec. 00 name-change fee under Sec. 27. Sec. 30 confines these uses to the IN Industrial District and imposes distance minimums measured property-line to property-line under Sec. 31: 1,000 feet from another adult entertainment establishment, 200 feet from a business that sells alcohol, 1,000 feet from a religious institution, 2,300 feet from a school or library, 250 feet from land designated residential on the future land use map, 500 feet from a recreation area, and 200 feet from a government facility or halfway house.

The department can suspend a permit for building, fire, health or zoning violations, or after repeat criminal convictions at the establishment, and can revoke it outright after a second suspension, barring the permittee from a new permit for five years under Sec. 29.