Tuscaloosa, AL Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Sec. 2(a) defines the banned conduct in specific anatomical terms: exposing the pubic area, buttocks, anus, anal cleft, vulva or genitals, showing male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, or a female exposing any portion of the breast below the top of the areola, whenever that exposure happens inside a place holding a retail liquor license or a retail malt/brewed beverage license, or within the city's police jurisdiction outside the corporate limits. Subsection (b) extends liability to the licensee: a beer or liquor licensee is separately guilty of 'permitting' nude or nearly nude activity if it has control of the premises and knows, or has reasonable cause to know, that a performer is exposing themselves there, and it either permits the activity or fails to make a reasonable and timely effort to halt or abate it.

That means an establishment cannot simply claim ignorance once a complaint or citation puts it on notice. The section works alongside Sec. 00 plus up to six months of hard labor for the city. Sec. 2 itself was adopted by Ord. No. 3616 on May 6, 1993, and, unlike Sec. 1, applies with no stage-based exception, meaning full nudity is prohibited outright rather than merely channeled onto a controlled stage.