Nassau County, FL Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Nassau County Code § 26½-15 imposes three affirmative duties on the operator of any sexually oriented business licensed under Chapter 26½. First, the operator must post conspicuous signs on the property stating that no loitering is permitted. Second, the operator must designate at least one employee to monitor activity on the property, either by physically inspecting it at least once every ninety minutes or by using video cameras and monitors that, if used, must run continuously whenever the business is open and be viewable from an operator's station.

Third, the operator must light the exterior of the premises well enough to support that visual inspection or video monitoring and to discourage loitering. The section separately bars any sexually oriented business from erecting a fence, wall or other barrier that would hide any part of its parking lot from view from a public right-of-way, so passersby and patrolling deputies can always see the lot. Failing to fulfill any of these duties is itself declared unlawful under § 26½-15(b), independent of whatever loitering actually occurs.

The provision sits alongside § 26½-14's interior monitoring and lighting rules for viewing rooms, and both are part of the same 2005 ordinance (Ord. No. 2005-10) enacted to control secondary effects of adult businesses in the unincorporated county.