Vineland, NJ Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Vineland regulates adult businesses through its peace-and-good-order chapter rather than a separate zoning license. Section 511-11, added in 1995 and amended in 1996, defines a sexually oriented business by reference to N.J.S.A. 2C:34-6, which covers adult bookstores among other sexually oriented uses, and caps their hours of operation at 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The section closes them entirely on Sundays and on any legal holiday, cutting a full day of trading off the week on top of the daily hour restriction.

Because this hours limit sits inside Chapter 511, Peace and Good Order, rather than inside the City's separate business-licensing chapters, a sexually oriented business does not receive a distinct adult-use permit from Vineland; instead, the Municipal Court of the City of Vineland enforces the hours restriction the same way it enforces every other Chapter 511 offense, including the chapter's prohibitions on disorderly houses, indecent exposure and indecent exhibitions. The hours restriction is citywide rather than confined to a particular zoning district, so it applies to a sexually oriented business anywhere the underlying use is otherwise lawful in Vineland, with the daily and weekly closure standing as the operative local control rather than a location-based buffer or spacing requirement.