Cedar Park, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)
Key Facts
- Zoning status
- Prohibited in all 20 districts
- Definition section
- § 11.09.001, paraphernalia retail use
- Governing table
- Table 11.02.064 use table
- Max fine
- $2,000 per day (zoning)
Summary
Cedar Park's zoning code defines and lists "head shop" as a retail paraphernalia use in its citywide land-use table, but marks it prohibited in all twenty of the city's zoning districts, so no head shop can legally open anywhere in the city.
Head shop. Any retail establishment open to the public that presents, displays, or offers for sale paraphernalia, items, equipment, or products commonly used, intended to be used, or commonly known to be used, for the ingestion, inhalation, preparation, or injection of illegal substances, to include any device which has been fabricated, constructed, altered, adjusted, or marked especially for use in the smoking or ingestion of a controlled substance, notwithstanding that it might also be possible to use the device for some other purpose.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4973212; v14 updated 2026-06-25).
Full Breakdown
Article 11.09, § 11.09.001 defines a "head shop" as any retail establishment that presents, displays, or sells paraphernalia commonly used for ingesting, inhaling, preparing, or injecting illegal substances. Table 11.02.064, Nonresidential Uses by Zoning District, carries a dedicated "Head shop" row, and every one of the table's twenty district columns, Development Reserve, all five residential districts, all nonresidential/commercial districts, Hospital, the Public Services and both open-space districts, and the Mixed Use, Planning Area, and Entertainment Center districts, shows a ", " (prohibited) mark with no permitted or conditional-use column checked anywhere. The use is recognized and defined by the code but assigned no legal zoning location in the city.
Violations & Fines
Operating a head shop is a zoning code violation because the use has no permitted district; the Development Services Department can cite it as a class C misdemeanor under § 1.01.009, punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 per day the violation continues.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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