Provo, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

48 creates a Sexually-Oriented Business (SOB) Overlay Zone that is the only place an adult business or semi-nude entertainment business may locate. 030 sets the spacing rule: no sexually-oriented business may operate within 1,000 feet of a residential zone boundary line, the property boundary of any church, public park, public library, or school (Standard Land Use Code classifications 6811-6814), or the boundary of any property already holding an active sexually-oriented business license. The same 1,000-foot buffer runs both ways: a new church, park, library, or school cannot be established within 1,000 feet of an existing sexually-oriented business either.

Distance is measured in a straight line from the nearest point of the business property line to the nearest boundary of the protected use or residential zone. 37, limit signage to flat wall signs capped at one square foot per foot of building frontage, and display no merchandise or entertainment imagery visible from a public sidewalk. 48 locational requirements, tying the zoning buffer directly to the licensing decision. A temporary license issues immediately on a complete application and converts to a permanent license, or a denial letter, within 20 days.