Business Licensing & Operations in Dougherty County, GA (2026)

2 rules for unincorporated Dougherty County, Georgia.

Verified from official government sources

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

Adult Entertainment

Unincorporated Dougherty County requires a $1,000.00 annual license before operating an adult entertainment establishment, restricts such businesses to Commercial C-3 zoning, and bars locating within 1,000 feet of residential zones, churches, schools, day cares, parks, or another adult entertainment establishment under Code §§ 2-10-101 through 2-10-121.

Dougherty County Adult Entertainment License Rules

Significant Restrictions

Dougherty County Code §§ 2-10-103, 2-10-107

It shall be unlawful for any person, association, firm, partnership, or corporation to engage in, conduct or carry on, in or upon any premises within Dougherty County, an adult entertainment establishment without a valid adult entertainment license to do so. ... The annual license fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for an adult entertainment establishment shall be established and may be am...

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Massage Establishments

Dougherty County has no separate massage-establishment license; instead, Code § 2-10-2(d)(1) lists massage and physiotherapy among the licensed professions and taxes each individual practitioner who keeps a principal office in the unincorporated county a flat four-hundred-dollar annual occupation tax, replacing the employee-based schedule that applies to other businesses.

Dougherty County Massage Practitioner Occupation Tax

Light Restrictions

Dougherty County Code § 2-10-2

(1)Professionals. Each individual practitioner of law, medicine, osteopathy, chiropractics, podiatry, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, landscape architecture, land surveying, massage and physiotherapy, public accounting, embalming, funeral directing, civil, mechanical, hydraulic or electrical engineering or architecture who maintains their principal office in the county shall pay by c...

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