Temple, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Tobacco Retail License (2026)
Key Facts
- Zone affected
- TMED overlay district only
- Use status
- Prohibited, item 13 of 14
- Governing code
- UDC Sec. 6.3.7.B
- Also banned there
- Pawn shops, tattoo studios, liquor stores
- UDC amended
- 07/07/2022
Summary
Temple's Unified Development Code lists "Vape Shop" as a prohibited use inside the TMED (Temple Medical and Educational) overlay zoning district, grouped with pawn shops, tattoo studios, and sexually oriented businesses.
In addition to those uses prohibited in Sec. 5.1.1, the following uses are prohibited in the TMED zoning district: 1. Auto parts sales; 2. Credit Access Business; ... 9. Sexually Oriented Business; 10. Tattoo Studio; 11. Body Piercing Studio; 12. Two-family dwelling (Duplex); 13. Vape Shop; and 14. Vehicle Sales and Service Uses as listed in the use table in Sec. 5.1.3.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Reformat).
Full Breakdown
Under UDC Sec. 6.3.7.B, the City of Temple prohibits vape shops, defined in the UDC as establishments allowing the mixing, display, or retail sale of electronic cigarette devices, nicotine solutions, or vaping liquids, as use #13 on a 14-item list of businesses barred from the TMED special overlay district near Baylor Scott & White Medical Center and Temple College. The ban applies only within TMED's transect zones and special districts, not citywide.
Violations & Fines
Operating a vape shop within the TMED overlay without a permitted use classification blocks issuance of a certificate of occupancy and can trigger zoning enforcement by Temple's Planning & Development Services Department.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a vape shop open in Temple's TMED district?
Does this ban apply to all of Temple?
Sources & Official References
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