Business Licensing & Operations in Boone County, KY (2026)

3 rules for unincorporated Boone County, Kentucky.

Verified from official government sources

Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Boone County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Adult Entertainment

Boone County requires a sexually oriented business license and a separate employee license before anyone may operate or work at an adult bookstore, cabaret, arcade, motion picture theater, or similar business in the unincorporated county. Operating without one is a Class A misdemeanor.

Sexually Oriented Business License, Boone Co.

Significant Restrictions

Boone County Code § 111.04

(A) Business license. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a sexually oriented business in the county without a valid sexually oriented business license. (B) Employee license. It shall be unlawful for any person to be an employee, as defined in this chapter, of a sexually oriented business in the county without a valid sexually oriented business employee license, except that a person ...

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Secondhand Dealers

Boone County requires anyone buying, selling or trading second-hand or antique jewelry, coins, watches, diamonds, cutlery, or gold, silver and platinum items to keep a daily register of every article and seller, retain items unmixed for 72 hours, and never deal with a person under 18.

Secondhand Dealer Register, Boone County KY

Some Restrictions

Boone County Code § 113.01

It shall be the duty of all persons dealing in the purchase, sale or exchange of second-hand or antique jewelry, coins, watches, diamonds or other precious stones, cutlery, old gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals, or any other second-hand manufactured articles, composed wholly or in part of gold, silver, platinum or other precious metals to keep a daily register on a form provided ...

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Towing Companies

Boone County doesn't license towing companies, but County Code § 71.15 sets the rules a towing service must follow when a Sheriff's officer orders a non-consent tow from a public road, right-of-way or county-maintained lot in the unincorporated county, plus the conditions the owner must meet to get a towed vehicle released.

Boone County KY Non-Consent Towing Rules

Some Restrictions

Boone County Code §§ 71.15, 71.16

§ 71.15 TOWING/ STORAGE AND RELEASE OF VEHICLE. (A) An officer is authorized to have a towing service remove any vehicle to a storage facility when: (1) There is reason to believe that the location where a vehicle is parked or left standing, constitutes a public nuisance or a threat to the public health, safety or welfare; or (2) A third ticket involving the same vehicle has been issued within ...

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