Woodbridge, NJ Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Closing hours
- 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. daily
- Separate SOB permit
- None written into this section
- Excluded uses
- Cabarets and juice bars (§ 3-14.2)
- Max fine
- $2,000 (Ch. 1 § 1-5)
- Repeat violations
- Each day is a separate offense
Summary
Woodbridge does not run a separate adult-business permit or spacing scheme. Instead, Township Code § 4-1.3 defines a sexually oriented business by its books, films, devices or live performances involving specified sexual activity, then forces every one of them to close between midnight and 8:00 a.m., with cabarets and juice bars carved out of the definition.
SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS Shall mean: A commercial establishment which as one of its principal business purposes, offers for sale, rental, or display any of the following: books, magazines, periodicals or other printed material, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or other visual representations which depict or describe a specified sexual activity or specified anatomical area... A commercial establishment which regularly features live performances characterized by the exposure of a specified anatomical area or by specified sexual activity... For purposes of this subsection, sexually oriented business shall not include cabarets and juice bars as defined in Subsection 3-14.2 of this Code. ... Hours of Operation. No sexually oriented business shall be open between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (2400 to 0800 hours).
Full Breakdown
Chapter 4's general hours-of-business rules single out sexually oriented businesses for their own closing window. 3 first defines the term broadly: a commercial establishment whose principal purpose is selling, renting or displaying books, magazines, films, video cassettes, or paraphernalia depicting a specified sexual activity or specified anatomical area, or one that regularly features live performances or films with that content. 2) out of the definition entirely, so those licensed liquor-serving venues are not swept in. m. Eastern Standard Time. There is no separate sexually oriented business license, no minimum distance from schools, churches or residences, and no zoning overlay written into this section; the regulation is purely a mandatory closing-hours rule layered onto whatever other license or zoning approval the business already needs. Enforcement rides on the same violation clause that covers the rest of Chapter 4's hours-of-business rules.
Violations & Fines
Violating § 4-1.3, including staying open past midnight, is enforced under § 4-1.4 and punished under the Township's general penalty at Chapter 1, § 1-5: up to a $2,000 fine, 90 days in the county jail, or 90 days of community service, with each day of continued violation counted as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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