Wyoming, MI Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Distance from schools/churches/parks
- 500 feet
- Distance from other adult businesses
- 1,000 feet
- License required
- Sec. 14-35 adult business license
- Operating hours ban
- 2:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m.
- Performer distance rule
- 6 feet from patrons
Summary
Adult businesses in the City of Wyoming, Michigan, need a city adult business license and must sit at least 500 feet from churches, schools, parks, child-care centers, family-entertainment uses and residential zoning, and at least 1,000 feet from any other adult business, under Sec. 14-33.
Any existing building or land and building erected, converted or structurally altered for use for an adult business, must meet all requirements in this chapter and chapter 90 of this Code. In addition to requirements in chapter 90 of this Code; adult businesses must not be located or operated within the following specific distances: (a)Five hundred feet from a church, synagogue or other regular place of religious worship, public or private preschool, elementary school, or secondary school, public park, child care center, entertainment business that is oriented primarily toward children or family entertainment; boundary of any residentially zoned district; or any legal residential use not located within a residentially zoned district.(b)One thousand feet of any other adult business.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 26 Update 2).
Full Breakdown
Article III of Chapter 14 (Secs. 14-31 through 14-38) regulates adult businesses in Wyoming, Michigan, Kent County. Sec. 14-33 sets the spacing rule: an adult business 'must not be located or operated within' 'five hundred feet from a church, synagogue or other regular place of religious worship, public or private preschool, elementary school, or secondary school, public park, child care center, entertainment business that is oriented primarily toward children or family entertainment; boundary of any residentially zoned district; or any legal residential use,' and 'one thousand feet of any other adult business,' measured building-to-building or from the nearest residential-district lot line.
Sec. 14-35 requires a city adult business license before operating, with a scaled floor-plan sketch filed with the application, and bars any applicant or business-personnel member who has been convicted of prostitution, indecent exposure, criminal sexual conduct, human trafficking, liquor-license violations, sexual activity in public, or illegal drug sale from holding the license. Sec. m.
Violations & Fines
A violation of Article III, including operating without the Sec. 14-35 license, violating the Sec. 14-33 spacing rule, or breaching the Sec. 14-37 operating restrictions, is a misdemeanor under Sec. 14-38, punishable under the citywide Sec. 1-26 general penalty (up to $500.00 and 90 days). The article requires a knowing or reckless violation and allows a 'powerless to prevent' defense.
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Sources & Official References
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