Daytona Beach, FL

Daytona Beach caps residential pet ownership to a fixed list of species and counts. City Code Sec. 14-12 allows only four adult dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs or ferrets, four…

In the Redevelopment Downtown - Beach Street Retail (RDD-1) district, Daytona Beach bars standalone veterinary hospitals and clinics. The Land Development Code allows one only if it…

Daytona Beach requires owners to keep dogs from leaving home unsupervised, either behind a secure fence, in a vehicle, or secured on a leash no more than eight feet in length once off…

Cats in Daytona Beach must be vaccinated against rabies every year and wear a city license tag, the same as dogs, under City Code §§ 14-15 and 14-16. Section 14-11(a) also bans letting…

Daytona Beach requires owners to spay or neuter any dog or cat six months or older unless they hold a $10.00 unaltered animal permit. City Code Sec. 14-19 lists narrow exemptions for…

Daytona Beach does not ban pet stores from selling dogs and cats, but City Code Sec. 14-13 limits home-based animal sales, bars sales from any business other than a licensed kennel or…

Daytona Beach caps household pets at four adult dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs or ferrets per residential dwelling unit, plus up to four adult house geckos, iguanas or birds of the…

Daytona Beach bans feeding pigeons only when doing so creates a public nuisance. City Code Sec. 14-21 defines the nuisance as droppings or feather accumulation, vermin attraction…

Daytona Beach's residential animal list in City Code § 14-12(c) covers dogs, cats, rabbits, geckos, birds and caged rodents, but leaves out chickens, other poultry and livestock…

Daytona Beach cannot enact breed-specific legislation. Florida law (FL §767.14) preempts all local breed bans statewide. Dogs are regulated based on behavior under the state Dangerous…

Beekeeping in Daytona Beach is governed by Florida state law (FL §586). The Florida Department of Agriculture preempts local ordinances that prohibit beekeeping except HOA rules…

Daytona Beach caps ambient noise at 10 dBA above background from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and 5 dBA above background overnight, with a fallback table of 60/55 dBA residential, 65/60 dBA…

Daytona Beach exempts construction-equipment noise from its noise ordinance only when the equipment runs with standard manufacturer mufflers, but that exemption disappears in…

Daytona Beach bans running leaf blowers, mowers, chain saws and other outdoor power tools in residential areas between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. City Code § 42-214(a)(3) names leaf…

Daytona Beach treats habitual or continuous barking, howling, whining or other bothersome noise lasting 15 minutes or more as a codified nuisance under City Code § 14-3, and § 14-11(b)…

Daytona Beach bars outdoor amplified sound equipment on nonresidential property within 1,000 feet of a residential area unless the operator holds a sound permit. Only restaurants/bars…

Daytona Beach bars shouting, whistling or other disruptive noise on public streets and running TVs, radios or stereos loud enough to disturb residential neighbors between 10:00 p.m…

Daytona Beach's noise ordinance does not reach aircraft in flight or airport flight operations: City Code § 42-213(5) exempts that noise entirely from the article's decibel limits and…

Volusia County bans unreasonable vehicle horns and unnecessarily loud car stereos as 'loud, disturbing and unnecessary' noise under Sec. 50-478(c)(1)-(2), enforced by the sheriff's…

On single-family lots in Daytona Beach's SFR-5 district, detached sheds and other accessory structures are capped at 20 feet tall and 50 percent of the main house's floor area under…

If a Daytona Beach homeowner rents out an accessory dwelling unit, the Land Development Code requires a written lease running longer than six months, which rules out nightly, weekly…

Daytona Beach requires that either the principal house or the accessory dwelling unit on the lot be owner occupied before an ADU can operate. The Land Development Code also caps every…

Daytona Beach allows one accessory dwelling unit per single-family lot under Land Development Code Section 5.3.C.32, capped at 500 to 800 square feet depending on lot size. Either the…

An accessory dwelling unit in unincorporated Volusia County can carry its own water, sewer, and electric meters, but Code of Ordinances § 72-277(e)(4) only triggers utility impact fees…

Florida Statute 553.73 makes the Florida Building Code the single, uniform construction standard for all permanent dwellings statewide, including tiny homes, preempting cities from…

Daytona Beach permits a family day care home only as an accessory use to a single-family dwelling, not as a stand-alone business. The Land Development Code confines the use to five…

Daytona Beach zoning treats a home occupation as an accessory use to the dwelling itself, capping the business at 20 percent of the home's living area, barring accessory structures…

Daytona Beach limits home-based businesses to professional and business services that don't bring clients or customers to the house, and the Land Development Code separately bars any…

A home-based business in unincorporated Volusia County gets no special signage allowance. Code § 72-283(4)a requires every home business to follow the same signage rules that apply to…

Florida's Cottage Food Operations Act preempts local regulation, allowing home production of non-potentially hazardous foods up to a statewide gross sales limit.

Daytona Beach treats parked commercial vehicles as outside storage and bans it: trucks over one ton and other commercial vehicles cannot sit on any public right-of-way or private lot…

Daytona Beach bans parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, in front of driveways, on sidewalks, and in intersections and crosswalks, and requires vehicles to park within 12 inches of…

Daytona Beach limits passenger curb loading zones to five minutes for expeditious passenger loading or unloading, and freight curb loading zones to 30 minutes for loading and unloading…

Daytona Beach bars RVs, boats, boat trailers and utility trailers from sitting in a residential front yard or street-side yard for more than 24 hours. The Land Development Code allows…

Daytona Beach bans storing an abandoned, junked or discarded motor vehicle on any public property or on commercial or residential private property. City Code § 42-111 lets the city…

Daytona Beach lets the city commission designate controlled residential permit parking areas where only vehicles displaying a valid decal or permit may park during restricted hours…

Daytona Beach requires driveways and off-street parking areas to be paved with asphalt, concrete, brick, pavers or another hard, dustless surface, not bare dirt or grass. Single-family…

Volusia County caps what a wrecker may charge for a tow that starts inside the county, but since Ord. No. 2024-25 the dollar figures are no longer printed in the code. Sec. 118-98…

Florida law protects condominium unit owners' rights to install electric vehicle charging stations in their designated parking areas under Fla. Stat. 718.113(8), while commercial…

Daytona Beach treats a fence as a "structure" under its Land Development Code, so building a fence requires a Building Permit issued by City staff under Land Development Code Section…

Daytona Beach bans barbed wire fencing everywhere except industrial zoning districts under Land Development Code Section 6.8.C.3, and even there it cannot run along an arterial or…

Daytona Beach doesn't cap retaining wall height outright, but Land Development Code Section 6.8.E requires any retaining wall to avoid disrupting natural surface water flow or harming…

Daytona Beach caps fences and walls at four feet in the front yard, between the front lot line and the front of the structure, and at eight feet everywhere else on the lot under Land…

Volusia County requires every fence or wall to show its finished side, not exposed posts or framing, to the neighboring lot or street. A homeowner can ask the zoning enforcement…

Daytona Beach bans automatic and manual lawn irrigation between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., every day of the year, as its permanent base-level water conservation rule. Overspray onto sidewalks…

Daytona Beach lets any property add an aboveground rainwater cistern as an accessory structure, but the Land Development Code fixes exactly where it can sit. Cisterns must sit directly…

Removing a protected tree in Daytona Beach, including historic and specimen trees or vegetation counted toward required landscaping, requires a Tree Removal Permit before any land…

No one may cut, trim, or remove a tree or shrub on Daytona Beach public property without prior city approval except in an emergency, under City Code § 86-201(a), and the city may…

Inside Volusia's Indian River Lagoon Surface Water Improvements and Management Zone, every new development must set aside at least 35 percent of the property as open space landscaped…

Volusia County declares grass, weeds, brush and undergrowth over 12 inches tall a nuisance on developed lots in the unincorporated county. Owners get 15 days after notice to cut before…

Daytona Beach bans burning solid waste anywhere in the city unless a federal or state burn permit authorizes it, under Sec. 78-5(1) of the solid waste chapter.

Fireworks are prohibited on all Volusia County beaches year-round, including designated holidays under FL HB 1059. Within the city, consumer fireworks are legal on July 4, New Year's…

Volusia County bans open campfires on its beaches and beach approaches but carves out a specific exception for portable fire pits. Sec. 20-114 also makes it unlawful to dump hot coals…

The Florida Forest Service has statewide jurisdiction over wildfire prevention and suppression on non-municipal land under Chapter 590, Florida Statutes.

Daytona Beach restricts short-term rentals to designated tourist zoning districts and redevelopment overlay areas (rentals under 6 months are prohibited in residential base zones), but…

Short-term rental properties in Daytona Beach must comply with city parking regulations under Chapter 94. Guest vehicles cannot park in the front yard of residential districts except…

Florida law preempts the regulation of vacation rental licensing and inspections to the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), though local zoning and…

Florida imposes a 6% state sales tax, plus county discretionary surtaxes of 0.5 to 1.5%, on rentals of living accommodations for six months or less, applying universally to short-term…

Daytona Beach follows Florida's strict pool barrier law (FL §515 Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act). All residential pools must be enclosed by a barrier at least 48 inches tall…

A small prefabricated above-ground pool at a single-family home in unincorporated Volusia doesn't need a county building permit at all, as long as it's under 24 inches deep and holds…

A Daytona Beach residence, family or household can pull no more than three garage sale permits in a calendar year, and each permit only covers daylight hours over three days or two…

Daytona Beach's Land Development Code fixes minimum yard setbacks separately for each residential zoning district in Article 4. In the Single-Family Residential-5 (SFR-5) district…

Daytona Beach caps principal dwellings in its primary single-family zone, SFR-5, at 35 feet under Land Development Code Section 4.2.B.3. The multifamily districts MFR-12, MFR-20 and…

Daytona Beach's Land Development Code caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings, with limits set per zoning district. In the Single-Family Residential-5 (SFR-5) district, the…

Daytona Beach runs a voluntary inspection program for residential rental properties under City Code section 26-296. Owners who opt in when registering get a Land Development Code…

Daytona Beach regulates vapor bars, hookah lounges and cigar lounges as 'smoking lounges' under City Code section 26-351, capping normal hours at 7:00 a.m. to midnight under section…

Daytona Beach requires secondhand dealers, precious metals dealers, pawnbrokers and junk dealers to pay an annual license tax before opening. City Code § 26-208, part of Article III's…

Daytona Beach regulates pawnbrokers as a category of secondhand dealer and caps title loan fees at 22 percent per month. City Code § 26-211(e) sets conditions for vehicle title loan…

Any wrecker towing a vehicle that originates in Daytona Beach must carry garagekeeper's and garage liability insurance, run trucks equipped to the city's specification list, and follow…

Daytona Beach requires notarized parental consent to pierce anyone under 18 and a local business tax receipt to pierce for a fee. City Code § 26-276 also confines tattoo and body…

Daytona Beach confines adult bookstores and adult theaters to its BA business district and bars them outright from every Redevelopment Area under Land Development Code Section…

Volusia County has no standalone massage-establishment license; the state's Board of Massage Therapy licenses individual therapists under F.S. ch. 480. What county code actually…

Development in a Daytona Beach flood hazard area needs a Floodplain Development Permit for structures exempt from the Florida Building Code, issued by the City's Floodplain…

Daytona Beach allows one private dock per waterfront lot, with a second dock possible once frontage reaches 100 feet. The Land Development Code caps dock height, platform size, and…

Before clearing, grading, filling, or building anything in Daytona Beach, developers must get a stormwater management plan approved under Land Development Code Section 7.2.M.2. The…

Daytona Beach requires an approved stormwater management plan before clearing, filling, subdividing or developing land that could alter runoff patterns. Larger sites must retain the…

Daytona Beach requires new construction in flood hazard areas to elevate the lowest floor at least 1 foot above base flood elevation, adopted as a local amendment to the Florida…

Volusia County's 47 miles of Atlantic coast are governed by the FDEP Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) per F.S. §161.053. Sea turtle lighting ordinance enforces F.S. §161.163…

Daytona Beach adopts the Florida Building Code, including its Plumbing chapter, by reference as its construction code, administered by City staff instead of a separate local plumbing…

A child care facility in Daytona Beach must sit at least 500 feet from any industrial zoning district or existing industrial use when it is the main use on the site, under Land…

Daytona Beach does not mandate green building, but LDC Section 6.20 rewards developments that adopt sustainable-development features with a menu of zoning bonuses, including extra…

Before occupying a new building in Daytona Beach, City staff must complete a final inspection within seven days of a written Certificate of Occupancy request under LDC Section 3.4.T. A…

Anyone who wants to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish or change the occupancy of a building or structure in unincorporated Volusia must first apply to the Chief…

Daytona Beach requires every solicitor, canvasser, peddler or transient merchant to get a permit and license from the permit and licensing division before doing business in the city…

Daytona Beach bans door-to-door soliciting wherever a resident or business posts a "no soliciting" sign, and separately limits licensed solicitors, canvassers and peddlers to 8 a.m. to…

Daytona Beach limits a garage sale to one sign of no more than four square feet, displayed only on the sale property and only during the permitted sale hours. The sign cannot go on a…

Window signs in Daytona Beach do not need a sign permit in most districts. The exception is commercial buildings in the city's redevelopment districts, where a window sign attached to…

Daytona Beach exempts holiday lighting displayed in November, December, and January from the City's exterior lighting standards in Land Development Code Section 6.9.B.2.d, as long as…

Daytona Beach allows digital, electronic message center signs only as an add-on to a permitted ground or wall sign under Land Development Code Section 6.10.J.6, with copy that can…

Daytona Beach does not license or count political signs separately: a 'Campaign Sign' is a sign for a candidate or ballot measure, and it is regulated as one of the City's ordinary…

Daytona Beach bans billboards citywide except within 100 feet of the Interstate 95 right-of-way, and even there they must clear spacing, height, and setback standards under Land…

Daytona Beach lets residents set out ordinary yard trimmings, palm fronds and limbs up to six inches thick and five feet long loose at the curb, without bagging, but bigger jobs must…

Daytona Beach requires recyclables to be rinsed and prepped before pickup and confines recycling bins to containers marked for recycling only, kept separate from trash containers under…

Daytona Beach bans depositing refuse on streets, in waterways, on someone else's private property, or anywhere in the city outside authorized collection under Sec. 78-4, backed by the…

Daytona Beach requires every owner, occupant, and tenant of property inside city limits to use the city's contracted refuse hauler for garbage, yard trash, and recyclables collection…

Commercial dumpsters, compactors, and roll-off containers in Daytona Beach must be screened on at least three sides and, for buildings built after January 1, 1972, set back 20 feet…

Daytona Beach lets residents set oversized household trash like furniture and appliances next to their regular container on normal collection days, but doors must be removed from…

Daytona Beach residents must roll mobile garbage carts to the curb no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the night before pickup and bring them back in by 10:00 p.m. on collection day, under City…

Before Daytona Beach crews will collect it, refuse must be prepared under strict rules in City Code § 78-41: garbage drained of liquids and bagged, trash bundled or bagged under 40…

Florida Statute 403.706(2)(a) requires every county to run a recyclable-materials recycling program built to hit a 75 percent recycling goal by December 31, 2020, stepping up from 40…

Daytona Beach requires a separate local business tax for each classification a business falls under. If an occupation, business, profession or privilege spans more than one category in…

A Daytona Beach restaurant or bar cannot run outdoor amplified sound within 1,000 feet of a residential area without a sound permit under City Code § 42-242. Permits run six months…

Daytona Beach exempts air conditioner noise from its citywide noise ordinance, but only while the unit runs to the manufacturer's specifications and American Refrigeration Institute…

Volusia County exempts backup generators from its noise limits, but only lets residents test or exercise them between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, under Sec…

Daytona Beach bars anyone under 18 from public places, semi-public places or businesses during youth curfew hours, generally 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights and 12:01…

Daytona Beach closes every city-owned and city-operated park, recreation, sports and leisure facility from one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise. Anyone who enters or…

Street fairs and festivals in Daytona Beach fall under the Outdoor Events Code, and City Code § 82-60(b) requires an organizer closing a street for a festival to give first right of…

Daytona Beach allows restaurants and bars to serve customers on the public sidewalk fronting their business, but only as an accessory use under Land Development Code Section 5.3.C.17…

Daytona Beach's Outdoor Events Code folds commercial filming into the same permit system used for parades and festivals. City Code § 82-1 defines filming activity as an outdoor event…

Daytona Beach defines a block party as a neighborhood gathering that closes a local street, and requires the outdoor event permit application to include a petition signed by at least…

Exclusive use of a Daytona Beach park, Jackie Robinson Ballpark, Municipal Stadium or Oceanfront Bandshell requires a facility use permit or agreement under City Code Chapter 82…

Daytona Beach requires a written outdoor event permit before anyone holds, manages, or conducts a parade on city property. City Code § 82-1 defines a parade as an organized march or…

Daytona Beach treats weeds, trash, undergrowth, and other refuse on any vacant lot or parcel as a public nuisance under City Code § 78-111 when the conditions could attract rodents or…

Daytona Beach declares foreclosed, abandoned real property a public nuisance and forces mortgagees to register it. City Code Sec. 22-46 requires registration with Code Enforcement…

During a declared state of emergency, Daytona Beach may enter private streets and rights-of-way inside any subdivision to collect storm debris blocking a right-of-way or utility…

Every new structure in Daytona Beach must set its finished floor at least 12 inches above the crown of the adjacent road, a citywide standard under LDC Section 6.23 that applies on top…

Volusia County requires opening protection, hurricane shutters or impact-rated glazing, on new single-family homes valued at $750,000 or more in the wind-borne debris region when the…

Any company that wants to rent shared scooters in Daytona Beach needs a franchise agreement with the city, plus $1 million/$2 million liability coverage. Riders must be at least 16…

Daytona Beach cyclists must keep both hands on the handlebars and both feet on the pedals, with no trick riding, on any city street. Sidewalk riding is banned in business districts but…

Volusia County defines an electric bicycle by the three-class system in F.S. § 316.003(23) and then regulates where and how e-bikes may operate on county beaches. Sec. 20-173…

Florida flips the usual assumption: a golf cart is barred from public roads unless a county, a municipality, or a water control district has affirmatively designated that road for cart…

Daytona Beach's Historic Preservation Board and City Commission designate cultural monuments and historic sites by classifying land as a Historic Overlay district. Under Land…

Daytona Beach's Land Development Code names seven invasive tree species as 'nuisance trees': Australian pine, Brazilian pepper, Chinaberry, citrus, eucalyptus, punk tree and women's…

Daytona Beach requires new developments within its reuse master plan area to install a reuse (reclaimed) water irrigation system and record deed restrictions banning potable water for…

A Daytona Beach customer whose water bill triples because of a hidden leak, not a running toilet, can get a partial refund. Section 98-33 lets Utilities average the three prior months'…

Daytona Beach requires a Non-Communications Facility (NCF) permit before anyone excavates, cuts, deposits material in, or places equipment in the public right-of-way, including…

Daytona Beach bars standing or gathering in a way that blocks sidewalks, streets or other public places, and gives police the authority to order violators to move on. Refusing that…

Each abutting property owner in Daytona Beach is responsible for constructing, reconstructing, repairing and protecting the sidewalk, curb, gutter and drainage structures within the…

Daytona Beach caps how much light a property can throw onto its neighbors. Outdoor lighting is measured in foot-candles at the lot line, with the strictest limit, 0.5 foot-candles…

Daytona Beach requires full cut-off, downward-directed fixtures for almost all exterior lighting under Land Development Code Section 6.9.F.2, caps pole and wall-mounted light height at…

Digital billboards along Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach cannot shine brighter than 5,000 nits during the day or 500 nits from dusk to dawn, and each display needs a light sensor that…

New development along collector streets and above in Daytona Beach must plant street trees between the curb and sidewalk, spaced 40 to 50 feet apart for shade trees, under Land…

Daytona Beach protects live oaks and bald cypress 36 inches or more in diameter as historic trees, requiring them to stay inside a tree protection zone and City Commission approval…

Daytona Beach's Land Development Code protects two tiers of trees: specimen trees (12+ inch DBH) and historic trees (36+ inch DBH live oaks, bald cypresses, or City…

Daytona Beach allows a solar energy system as an accessory use anywhere in the city, but the Land Development Code caps a roof-mounted system at 15 feet above the roofline, limits…

Florida's solar access law F.S. §163.04 strongly protects solar rights. HOAs cannot prohibit solar panel installations on members' properties. HOAs may only determine specific roof…

Daytona Beach's Land Development Code lists specific acts that count as Code violations, from unpermitted development to disturbing required landscaping, under Section 10.2. First-time…

Anyone can report a suspected Land Development Code violation to City staff under LDC Section 10.3.B. City staff record the complaint, investigate written complaints, and can enter…

Daytona Beach treats commercial filming on city property as a regulated outdoor event, and City Code § 82-56(b)(10) lets the city condition the filming permit on restricting sound…

A film production that needs a Daytona Beach street closed must, at its own cost and at least 20 days ahead, notify every abutting lot owner, obtain written consent from at least 50…

Filming motion pictures or videotape for broadcast on Daytona Beach streets, sidewalks, parks, or other city property is regulated as an outdoor event under City Code § 82-51…

Daytona Beach bans riding a skateboard, along with bicycles, tricycles, skates and any other toy vehicle, on or over the surface of the city's oceanfront boardwalk. Commercial pedicabs…

City Code § 62-37(a)(6) makes it disorderly conduct to loiter, crowd or congregate on a Daytona Beach street or sidewalk so as to unreasonably obstruct traffic, once a police officer…

Daytona Beach makes possessing 20 grams or less of cannabis, or cannabis paraphernalia, a citywide civil offense under City Code § 62-34. Officers can issue a civil citation with a…

City Code § 66-1 bans aggressive panhandling citywide and bars all panhandling within 20 feet of business entrances, ATMs, transit stops and city parking, within 100 feet of schools…

Daytona Beach bans drinking, or carrying an open container of, alcohol on any public right-of-way, sidewalk, street or alleyway, and on any city-owned or city-controlled land, building…

In the Redevelopment Beachside - Specialty Retail (RDB-2) and Gateway Residential/Mixed-Use (RDB-3) districts, Daytona Beach lets the City Commission raise the base 20…

To build above the standard floor area ratio or height cap in Downtown Daytona Beach's Central Business District (RDD-2), a developer has to meet Land Development Code Section…

Daytona Beach bans mobile food vending in all areas of the public right-of-way, including sidewalks and street parking strips. Only mobile produce vendors may stop in right-of-way…

Daytona Beach confines mobile food vending to private property with the owner's written consent under Sec. 103-2(c). Vending cannot occur on single-family or duplex lots, must stay 250…

Volusia County requires mobile food dispensing vehicles operating in unincorporated areas to get a conditional-use or special-exception permit before setting up, caps daily operation…

Daytona Beach zones existing farmland, plant nurseries, greenhouses and conservation land into a dedicated Agricultural (AG) district under Land Development Code Section 4.6.A. The…

Florida Statute 823.14, the Florida Right to Farm Act, protects established bona fide farm operations from nuisance suits and local ordinances that would inhibit standard agricultural…

Daytona Beach requires sharps like needles, razor blades and broken glass to be wrapped or boxed before disposal to protect collection crews, and flatly bars putting sharps out for…

Before Volusia County will approve a demolition permit, the Chief Building Official can demand proof, including a certified pest control operator's statement, that the building being…

Daytona Beach bans public camping and sleeping on all city-controlled property under City Code § 86-42, adopted in 2025 under Florida's F.S. § 125.0231 framework, but requires police…

Every owner of a one-to-four-unit residential rental property in Daytona Beach must register annually with the city under City Code section 26-294. Registration triggers a $40…

Daytona Beach enforces habitability through the International Property Maintenance Code, locally amended under LDC Section 9.2. A written correction notice for a dwelling unit must…

Rent control is banned in Florida under F.S. §125.0103 and §166.0445. Volusia County and all its cities cannot cap rent or enact rent stabilization. Landlords may raise rent by any…

Fla. Stat. § 83.56 requires a 3-day notice to pay rent or vacate for nonpayment, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays from the count. For lease violations, the landlord…

Florida's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Chapter 83 Part II, exclusively defines lawful eviction grounds and procedures statewide, preempting cities from adding just-cause…

Under Fla. Stat. § 83.53, a Florida landlord must give at least 24 hours' notice to enter for repairs and may enter only at reasonable times, defined as between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m…

For a month-to-month tenancy, Fla. Stat. § 83.57 now requires 30 days' written notice (raised from 15 days by 2023's HB 1417). Breaking a fixed-term lease triggers landlord remedies…

Florida has no rent control and no statute setting a maximum rent increase or a dedicated advance-notice period. On a month-to-month tenancy, a new rent takes effect only through the…

Florida places no dollar limit on residential security deposits, but it enforces tight deadlines. If the landlord makes no claim, the deposit must be returned within 15 days of…

Adverse possession in Florida requires 7 years of actual, continued, exclusive possession plus paying all taxes within a year and filing a return with the property appraiser (Fla…

Volusia County requires every late-night retail business, open any time between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., to run a working security camera during all business hours under Code § 26-36. The…

Volusia County treats yard figurines as a type of exempt sign: they're allowed without a permit only if they stay under four feet tall, no more than ten sit on a lot at once, and the…

Florida prohibits all home cultivation of cannabis, including for medical patients, under FL §381.986. Only licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers (MMTCs) may grow. Possession…

Florida preempts local dispensary zoning under FL §381.986: MMTCs must be treated as standard pharmacies. Volusia jurisdictions set 500-foot school/church buffers. Dispensaries operate…

Volusia County levies a 3 percent tourist development tax on every rental of a hotel, motel, apartment, condo, or similar unit rented for six months or less. Sec. 114-32 makes the…

Commercial drone operations in Florida are regulated by federal FAA Part 107 and state law; local governments cannot impose additional commercial operation restrictions.

Florida expressly preempts local regulation of drones, reserving authority to the state and federal government, with limited surveillance and trespass exceptions.

Florida Statute 218.077 prohibits local governments from establishing a minimum wage other than the state or federal rate, preempting city and county living-wage ordinances except for…

Florida Statute 509.032(7) and broader employment preemption framework prevent local governments from requiring private employers to follow predictive or fair-scheduling rules beyond…

Florida allows permitless concealed carry of firearms by law-abiding adults under FS 790.01 and continues to issue concealed weapon licenses through FS 790.06, with both regimes…

Florida Statute 790.33 expressly preempts the entire field of firearm and ammunition regulation to the state, voiding all local ordinances and imposing personal civil penalties on…

Florida's open carry ban (FS 790.053) was struck down by the First District Court of Appeal in McDaniels v. State on September 10, 2025. The Florida Attorney General issued guidance on…

Florida Statute 790.25(5) allows any law-abiding person 18 or older to possess a concealed firearm in a private vehicle for self-defense, provided the firearm is securely encased or…

Florida cardrooms operate only inside licensed pari-mutuel facilities, dog tracks, horse tracks, and jai alai frontons, under a license from the Florida Gaming Control Commission. Fla…

Florida lets charitable, nonprofit, and veterans' organizations run bingo without applying for any state gaming license: the statute itself sets the eligibility bar and the limits. A…

Florida law exempts small-stakes card and tile games from gambling crimes under Fla. Stat. § 849.085, but only under strict conditions: winnings per hand can't exceed $10, the game…

Sports wagering is legal in Florida only through the Seminole Tribe's Hard Rock Bet platform, authorized under the state's gaming compact codified at Fla. Stat. § 285.710(13)(b)7…

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.3085, unpaid assessments become a lien on a parcel, and the homeowners' association may foreclose like a mortgage. Before recording the lien the association must…

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.303(2), Florida HOA board meetings must be open to members with notice posted at least 48 hours ahead. Section 720.306 governs member meetings and elections, §…

Under Fla. Stat. §§ 720.303 and 720.3035, a Florida HOA enforces its recorded covenants and architectural standards, but only where authority is stated or reasonably inferred in the…

Florida Statute 163.04 bars homeowner association deed restrictions and local ordinances from prohibiting clotheslines, solar collectors, or other renewable-resource energy devices in…

Florida law bars HOA declarations, articles, and bylaws from prohibiting Florida-friendly landscaping, defined by statute as drought-tolerant, water-conserving design. Section…

Florida law bars homeowners associations from stopping owners from flying up to two flags, each no larger than 4 1/2 by 6 feet, including the U.S. flag, Florida's state flag, military…

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.305, a Florida HOA may fine up to $100 per violation and $1,000 in the aggregate unless the governing documents allow more. The association must give at least 14…

A Florida association can foreclose an assessment lien in the same manner a mortgage is foreclosed, but only after two separate 45-day notices, and fines are largely off limits: a…

Florida limits how homeowners' associations can restrict renting out a home, but only in communities governed by Chapter 720, not condos or co-ops. Under Fla. Stat. § 720.306(1)(h), a…

Florida allows sobriety checkpoints, and the discretion of the individual trooper is what gets constrained. Fla. Stat. § 321.05(1) gives Florida Highway Patrol officers the power to…

Florida is an all-party consent state, but that rule reaches less far than it sounds. Fla. Stat. § 934.03(2)(d) makes interception lawful only when every party consents, while §…

Florida has no general stop-and-identify statute. The Florida Stop and Frisk Law, Fla. Stat. § 901.151(2), lets an officer temporarily detain you to ascertain your identity when…

Florida wrote the automobile exception into its statutes in 1927. Fla. Stat. § 933.19 adopts the United States Supreme Court's decision of March 2, 1925 in the Carroll case, reported…

Florida Statute 403.7033 preempts the regulation of disposable plastic bags by local governments, prohibiting cities and counties from enacting bans or fees on retailers pending a…

Florida Statute 500.90 preempts the regulation of polystyrene products by local governments, blocking cities and counties from banning expanded polystyrene foam food containers, cups…

Florida Statute 569.101 prohibits the sale or delivery of tobacco and nicotine products to persons under 21, aligning with federal law and applying uniformly statewide under the…

Florida is one of the states that says yes to underbody lighting in so many words. Fla. Stat. § 316.235(3) provides that any motor vehicle may be equipped with one or more lamps or…

Florida does not give dash cameras a windshield carve-out. Fla. Stat. § 316.2952(2) is written as a closed list of exactly four things that may be attached to, or located in or upon, a…

Florida bans lane splitting in so many words. Fla. Stat. section 316.209(3) states that no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

Florida treats an obscured plate as a crime, not a ticket. Fla. Stat. section 320.061(1) makes it unlawful to apply or attach any substance, reflective matter, illuminated device…

A driver of a private passenger vehicle may use a radar detector in Florida. No section of the Florida Statutes prohibits owning, carrying or operating one, and chapter 316, which…

Florida does not ban studded tires and does not restrict them to a winter season. The one wheel-surface provision in the traffic code, Fla. Stat. section 316.299, prohibits driving on…

Florida sets a separate light transmittance floor for each piece of glass rather than one statewide number. Side wings and side windows forward of or next to the driver must pass at…