Taylor, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Chapter 14, Article III has regulated sexually oriented businesses since Ordinance 99-25. Sec. 14-54 makes operating without a valid police-issued license an offense, and Sec. 14-55 lets the chief of police deny a license for reasons including unpaid city fees, disqualifying criminal convictions within specified look-back periods, or a manager's history of law-enforcement problems at a prior sexually oriented business. Sec. 00 survey fee for a first-time applicant to confirm compliance with the locational restrictions. Sec. 14-63's spacing rule is the core land-use control: a sexually oriented business cannot operate within 1,500 feet of a church, public or private elementary or secondary school, the boundary of a residential or historic district, a public park, a residential lot, a hospital, a child care facility, or another sexually oriented business, measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures.

Subsection (l) confines all such businesses to the M-2 zoning district under the land development code, and only with a special land use exception. Businesses lawfully operating before August 31, 1999 that fall out of compliance become nonconforming uses with a limited grace period, and can request a compliance-date extension from the zoning commission if they cannot recoup their investment, with appeal rights to district court under Local Government Code Chapter 211.