Business Licensing & Operations in Augusta-Richmond County, GA (2026)
5 rules for unincorporated Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia.
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Adult Entertainment
Augusta-Richmond County confines adult entertainment establishments to LI Light Industrial and HI Heavy Industrial zones, and bars them within 1,000 feet of churches, schools, parks, child care facilities, residential districts, and other sexually oriented businesses.
Augusta-Richmond Adult Business Zoning & Spacing
Significant RestrictionsAugusta-Richmond County Code, Tit. 6, Ch. 1, § 6-1-9
No adult entertainment establishments shall be located in any zone other than one designated as "LI" Light Industrial or "HI" Heavy Industrial under the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance for Richmond County, as incorporated in the Augusta-Richmond County Code, Title 8, Chapter 5. In addition, no adult entertainment establishment or use restricted hereunder shall be located; (a) within 1,000 feet o...
Massage Establishments
Augusta-Richmond County requires anyone operating a massage therapy business to hold a current operator's license, with a separate massage therapy license required for each practitioner performing treatments on customers.
Augusta massage establishment license
Significant RestrictionsAugusta-Richmond County Code, Tit. 6, Sec. 6-4-2
Any person desiring to own, operate, conduct or carry on, in Augusta, Georgia, the business of offering or providing massage therapy, before doing so, shall have in his possession a then current operator's license. A licensee holding an operator's license under this chapter is not authorized or licensed to actually perform the massage therapy on customers of the massage therapy business unless ...
Secondhand Dealers
Augusta-Richmond County requires every broker, book dealer and dealer in precious metals or gems to hold a business tax certificate under County Code Tit. 6, § 6-6-3 before opening, on top of the standard Title 2 tax certificate. Applicants pay a regulatory fee, submit a sworn application listing every partner's criminal history, and file daily transaction reports with the Sheriff's Office.
Augusta-Richmond County Secondhand Dealer License
Significant RestrictionsAugusta-Richmond County Code, Tit. 6, §§ 6-6-3, 6-6-4, 6-6-5(b)
Any person, firm or corporation who does business in Richmond County as a Broker, Pawnbroker, Book dealer, Dealer in Precious Metals or Gems, or Itinerant Dealers in Precious Metals or Gems shall, before engaging in such business, obtain a business tax certificate in accordance with Title 2, Chapter I of the Augusta Richmond County Code. ... Where this chapter imposes a greater restriction upon...
Pawnbrokers
Augusta-Richmond County requires every pawnbroker to post a $5,000 bond under County Code Tit. 6, § 6-6-15 before opening, on top of the business tax certificate all secondhand dealers need. Pawnbrokers must hold pawned goods for 30 days, post a three-ball sign, and let Sheriff's deputies search the premises without a warrant.
Augusta-Richmond County Pawnbroker Licensing Rules
Significant RestrictionsAugusta-Richmond County Code, Tit. 6, §§ 6-6-15, 6-6-18(a), 6-6-22
In addition to the business tax certificate required by section 6-6-3 herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of pawn broking within Richmond County without giving bond, with two (2) good and approved securities, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), conditioned to make good all damages sustained by the carelessness, neglect or unfair dealing of such lic...
Towing Companies
Augusta-Richmond County lets the Sheriff's Office control wrecker calls at accident scenes, barring any tow company from soliciting business roadside unless the Sheriff dispatched it there.
Augusta-Richmond County Non-Consent Wrecker Rules
Significant RestrictionsAugusta-Richmond County Code, Tit. 6, §§ 6-7-1, 6-7-2
The manner and means of wrecker service at accident scenes in Augusta, Georgia, shall be administered and governed by the sheriff. ... No wrecker service, its agents, servants, employees or individuals, shall stand on or in the proximity to a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting employment of business for the towing of a vehicle or vehicles at an accident or wreck scene without havin...
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