West Jordan, UT Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Zoning
- M-2 zone only
- Spacing
- 600 feet from other SOBs and protected uses
- License
- Business license + separate SOB license
- Employees
- Separate SOB employee license required
- Categories
- One SOB category per license, limited exception
Summary
West Jordan confines sexually oriented businesses to M-2 zoning and requires 600 feet of separation from each other and from homes, churches, schools, parks, historic sites, medical facilities, daycares, and any alcohol-licensed premises under City Code section 4-2I-6. Operators and their employees must each hold a separate city license on top of the general business license.
4-2I-6: ZONING: It is unlawful for any sexually oriented business to do business at any location within the city not zoned for such business. Sexually oriented businesses shall only be allowed in areas zoned M-2. Businesses regulated by this article shall not be located closer than six hundred feet (600') to each other and not closer than six hundred feet (600') to any residence, religious facility, school, public park, historic site, medical facility, daycare center, and any facility which is licensed for the sale or consumption of alcohol.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-38: Code current through: Ord. 26-33, passed 6-23-2026).
Full Breakdown
Section 4-2I-5 makes it unlawful to conduct a sexually oriented business without both a city business license and a city sexually oriented business license, and section 4-2I-7 requires every sexually oriented business employee to separately hold an employee license before working in that capacity. Section 4-2I-8 limits a single license to one category of sexually oriented business (adult businesses, escort services, nude or seminude dancing agencies, nude or seminude entertainment businesses, outcall services, or seminude entertainment bars), with one narrow exception letting a business combine an outcall services license and a seminude dancing agency license at the same premises.
Section 4-2I-9 requires a special application beyond the standard business license form, including acceptable written proof every owner and employee is a legal adult and color photographs and fingerprints. The article states its purpose in section 4-2I-2 as regulating the time, place, and manner of sexually oriented businesses consistent with constitutional protections, and section 4-2I-4 clarifies nothing in the article permits obscene material otherwise prohibited by the code or by federal or state law.
Violations & Fines
Operating a sexually oriented business outside an M-2 zone, or within 600 feet of another such business or a protected use, violates section 4-2I-6. Operating without the dual city license required by 4-2I-5, or employing someone without the required employee license under 4-2I-7, is separately unlawful. Violations of Title 4 are enforceable as a class B misdemeanor under section 4-1D-2, and the city may also seek an injunction under section 4-1D-4 against a business operating in violation of the article.
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