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

Section 11-84(a) states the core requirement flatly: no adult entertainment establishment may operate without first being granted an adult entertainment business tax receipt by the city department responsible for the program, and § 11-84(c) limits each receipt to a single classification, bookstore, motion picture theater, dancing establishment, or motel/hotel. Getting there takes a sworn application under § 11-85 covering ownership, any criminal convictions in the last five years, prior suspensions or revocations, and a scaled site plan, backed by a $250 nonrefundable application fee under § 11-86 that credits toward the first year's annual fee.

Section 11-89 routes the application to the police, building, fire and rescue, county health, and zoning departments for independent sign-off, and § 11-90(a) gives the city 14 days from proper filing to grant or deny; if that window passes without a denial, the applicant may begin operating. 20 for three. Section 11-101(a) is the spacing rule: no adult bookstore, adult dancing establishment, adult motion picture theater, or adult motel/hotel may sit within a 750-foot radius, measured property line to property line, of another such establishment, or of an on-premises alcohol establishment, hotel, motel, public lodging house, massage parlor, church, school, kindergarten, pawnshop, pool or billiard hall, public building, public park, dwelling, or property zoned R-1A, R-1B, R-1C, GU, R-2, R-3, RMH1, RMH2, RR, RE, or OR.

The city council may waive that buffer under § 11-101(b), but only after finding the use won't harm nearby property or the public interest, won't encourage a skid row, and won't conflict with an adopted redevelopment or land use plan. This article was rewritten in full by Ord. No. 24-2009, § 2, adopted June 9, 2009, which remains the operative text.