3 rules for unincorporated Hernando County, Florida.
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Neither Hernando County nor the City of Brooksville can control rent. Florida's 2023 Live Local Act rewrote Fla. Stat. §125.0103 into a flat ban, deleting the old housing-emergency exception, so no local government may cap rent increases on any Nature Coast rental.
Fla. Stat. §125.0103(2)
A municipality, county, or other entity of local government may not adopt or maintain in effect any law, ordinance, rule, or other measure that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents.
Hernando County cannot add local just-cause eviction protections. Fla. Stat. §83.425 preempts residential tenancy regulation to the state, so evictions across Spring Hill and Brooksville follow the same statewide process. Florida has no just-cause requirement, but self-help lockouts are illegal.
Fla. Stat. §83.425
The regulation of residential tenancies, the landlord-tenant relationship, and all other matters covered under this part are preempted to the state.
Hernando County runs no general registration or licensing scheme for long-term rentals, and Fla. Stat. §83.425 preempts local tenancy regulation to the state. A landlord's core duties, habitability, notice, and handling security deposits under §83.49, come from state law, not a county program.
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