Commissioners of Florida's Hillsborough County have paid a consultant $10,000 to determine whether strippers would be better regulated by licensing them.

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The proposal was crafted by Scott Bergthold, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based attorney whose firm specializes in crafting and defending adult business regulations, and would require licenses for strip club staff and performers the same as building contractors, cab drivers or real estate agents.

The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times report did not say where the licenses would have to be displayed.

However, if eventually passed, the law wouldn't affect the county's biggest city -- Tampa -- unless the city agrees to adopt the same rules, the newspaper said.

But City Attorney David Smith said the city wasn't interested in the county's plan.

"Since we have ordinances that work and have been upheld, we don't have as big a need to do something as the county does, apparently," Smith said. "So we will probably spend our time on other things that need our attention right now."