Doral, FL

Doral encourages Florida-Friendly landscaping and native plant use through its Land Development Code landscaping requirements. New development must meet minimum landscape standards…

Doral caps grass and lawn height at eight inches on improved property under Section 20-53(1) and limits weed infestation or bare patches to no more than 25 percent of any grass or…

Doral property owners must maintain the landscaping on the right-of-way strip in front of their lots, and Section 20-53(4) caps hedges running parallel to property lines at 14 feet…

No tree, specimen tree, or vegetation in a natural forest community can be removed in Doral without a permit issued under Miami-Dade County Code section 24-60. Section 71-5 hands…

Doral bans landscape irrigation between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily year-round and assigns fixed watering days by street address: even-numbered addresses water Thursday and/or…

Doral allows artificial turf in single-family and MF-1 yards, parks, and schools, but only with both homeowner association and city approval. Installation must be lead-free, fully…

Doral allows every building, new or existing, to add rainwater harvesting facilities like cisterns and rain barrels. Sec. 74-871 also lets the Planning and Zoning Director approve…

Miami-Dade County's Responsible Property Owner and Merchant Act defines "solid waste" to exclude "yard trash (except for compost piles)," so a backyard compost pile does not count as…

All swimming pool construction in Doral requires a building permit from the Building Department and approval from the Florida Department of Health (DOH). Doral is in the High-Velocity…

Doral enforces strict pool barrier requirements under the Florida Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act and the Florida Building Code. All residential pools must have a barrier at least…

Doral supports electric vehicle adoption and does not impose restrictive regulations on home EV charger installation. Florida law (F.S. 163.04) protects homeowners' rights to install…

Doral requires every vehicle parked on a city street, lot or garage to sit fully within the marked lines, pay any posted fee, and clear the space within 24 hours unless posted…

Residents impacted by limited street parking can petition the city manager to create a permit parking area if more than half the property owners in the area sign on. Only one on-street…

Doral bans leaving any wrecked, junked, partially dismantled or abandoned vehicle or vessel on public or private property. An enforcement officer weighs factors like missing tags and…

Doral has no red-yellow-blue curb color code; instead, its parking administrator marks curbs and pavement with signs or paint to designate scooter, moped, motorcycle and micro-mobility…

Doral bans storing or parking a commercial vehicle, trailer or heavy equipment in any residential zoning district under § 74-781(10), the same section that governs home-based…

Doral limits driveway and parking coverage in the front yard to 70 percent of that area under Land Development Code Section 77-85, counting pervious and impervious surfaces together…

Doral requires off-street loading bays sized to each commercial use under Land Development Code Sections 77-164 and 77-165, with the number of spaces set by building square footage…

Doral limits how residents store boats and recreational vehicles at home. Sec. 74-638 caps stored boats at 30 feet long, 102 inches wide and 13 feet six inches tall, one per lot…

Miami-Dade County prints the actual dollar ceilings a tow operator may charge when a vehicle is taken without the owner's consent. Section 30-476 caps a private property trespass tow…

Miami-Dade County bans overnight parking on any street marked with all-night parking signs, allowing only a 30-minute grace period except for physicians and emergency responders.

Doral treats any radio, TV, phonograph, or similar device played between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. that is plainly audible 100 feet from the source as prima facie proof of an unreasonably…

Doral restricts commercial lawn mowers, blowers, edgers, and other landscaping power tools to weekday hours of 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday hours of 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. under…

Doral's noise code bans keeping a dog, animal, or bird whose frequent, habitual, or long continued noise is plainly audible 100 feet from the property under § 26-128(3). Noise counts…

Doral's noise ordinance does not reach aircraft. Sec. 26-133(6) exempts locomotives, railroad equipment and aircraft from the city's noise article to the extent local regulation is…

Doral bans sound trucks, loudspeakers, and drums used to attract attention with loud noise on public streets under Code of Ordinances § 26-128(9)-(10), and separately limits amplified…

Doral limits construction noise to 6 a.m.-7 p.m. daily in business and industrial zones and to narrower weekday and Saturday windows next to homes, under Code § 26-128(14). No…

Doral's noise code bars sounding a vehicle horn for more than 60 seconds except as a danger warning, running an engine exhaust without an effective muffler, and driving a vehicle so…

Miami-Dade County caps sound from rural event venues, farm wineries, breweries and distilleries, and other agritourism uses in the AU Agricultural District at 70 dBA or 80 dBC…

Doral bars pet shops and pet dealers from selling dogs or cats unless the animal comes from a registered breeder, public shelter, or animal rescue organization. The Puppy Mill Cruelty…

On park property in Doral, Sec. 29-30(a) bans molesting, harming, trapping, hunting, shooting at, or capturing any wild bird, animal or reptile, and specifically prohibits removing or…

Doral bans veterinary clinics outright in its Downtown Mixed Use (DMU) zoning district, grouping them with pawnshops, tattoo parlors and adult entertainment uses as incompatible with…

Doral caps how many pets one property can hold. City Code § 3-29 makes it unlawful to keep more than ten domestic animals on a single premises, with no more than four of them dogs…

Doral bans animals running at large. City Code § 3-28 requires every dog and other animal, once off its owner's own property, to be on a leash or in a carrier and under a competent…

Doral restricts feeding of wildlife, particularly species that cause nuisance issues such as iguanas, muscovy ducks, and feral cats. Miami-Dade County and FWC rules prohibit feeding…

Beekeeping in Doral is governed primarily by Florida state law, which preempts most local regulation of managed honeybee colonies. Florida Statute Chapter 586 establishes statewide…

Doral follows the countywide pit bull ban repeal (October 2023). FL section 767.14 preempts breed-specific legislation. HOA and CDD communities may have their own pet breed or size…

Every dog and cat sold in Miami-Dade County must be microchipped before sale, with the seller registering the chip and notifying the County within 48 hours.

Miami-Dade requires groomers, including mobile groomers, to disinfect equipment and bathtubs between every animal or face a $200 civil fine.

Miami-Dade County requires sterilization of any dog found running at large more than twice, with violations affirmed on appeal; intact dogs also face steeper civil fines than…

Miami-Dade requires rabies vaccination for cats but never a license: cat registration is explicitly voluntary countywide, unlike the mandatory dog license.

Miami-Dade County bans possessing, maintaining, or controlling any wild animal, bird, reptile, or fur-bearing creature unless the owner already holds the required Florida Fish and…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade's RU-1 single-family zoning district, the county's most common suburban zoning, keeping poultry, fowl, bee hives, horses, cattle, or goats is flatly…

Any retaining wall in Doral needs a permit before it goes up. Section 74-214 requires permits for all walls and fences, Section 74-222 caps wall height at six feet in residential…

Doral requires a permit before erecting any wall or fence under City Code Section 74-214, and vision-obscuring walls, fences and hedges are held to fixed height, location and type…

Doral bans barbed wire fencing everywhere except business and industrial districts under City Code Section 74-221, and even there it must sit atop a wall or fence at least six feet…

Doral caps fences and walls in residential districts at six feet under City Code Section 74-222, but that limit drops to 2.5 feet within the sight-distance triangle at intersections…

Building a wall on a shared property line in unincorporated Miami-Dade requires the neighbor's consent before you finish the far side, or proof you tried.

Before Doral will register a short-term rental, the owner must acknowledge in writing that making noise above the city's limits is unlawful. Section 5-271(a)(5)e.ii ties that…

Doral's short-term rental program only covers stays of seven days to six months; anything shorter is barred outright. Section 5-271(a)(2) defines a 'short term rental or vacation…

Doral won't let an owner cycle a property through the short-term rental program indefinitely: section 5-271(a)(3) caps registrations at three per single-family, two-family…

Doral makes it unlawful to rent a single-family, two-family, multi-family, or townhome dwelling to a short-term occupant, or to offer that rental, without first registering the…

Doral fines short-term rental registration violations on an escalating scale under Sec. 5-271(c)(2): $500 for a first offense, up to $7,500 for a fourth or later violation within 12…

Doral charges a registration fee for every short-term rental application, with the amount set by city council resolution rather than printed in the code itself. Owners who rent out a…

Doral requires all short-term rental guest vehicles to be parked in the driveway. Street parking for short-term rental guests is prohibited. Property owners must certify compliance…

Doral regulates short-term rental occupancy under its Code of Ordinances. Occupancy limits are generally tied to the number of bedrooms and must comply with Florida Building Code…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade areas designated Estate or Low Density residential on the county's land use plan, the 'responsible party' running a vacation rental must actually live at…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, booking platforms like Airbnb must screen listings for a valid Certificate of Use and report monthly, but are shielded from joint liability if they…

Unincorporated Miami-Dade County requires vacation rental Certificate of Use applicants to attest that liability insurance covering guest injuries will be in effect at all times, since…

Miami-Dade does not impose a countywide primary-residence requirement on short-term rentals, but Florida statute §509.032 and Ord. 14-77 limit the county's ability to ban…

Doral bans open outdoor fires citywide, but Section 20-3 carves out a specific exception for cooking and recreational fires that expressly includes an outdoor fire pit. There is no…

Doral bans open outdoor fires citywide under Sec. 20-2 unless one of the seven exceptions in Sec. 20-3 applies, such as recreational cooking fires or fire-department-supervised debris…

Fireworks in Doral are governed by Florida Statute Chapter 791 and Miami-Dade County ordinances. Consumer fireworks (formerly called sparklers) are legal for personal use on designated…

Miami-Dade County requires NFPA-compliant residential single-station smoke detectors before the Building Official will issue a Certificate of Completion for any building built without…

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

Doral caps a home-based family day care at five children counting the operator's own preschoolers, and non-family children on top of that count cannot be older than 11. A state license…

Doral requires anyone running a business from home to get a home-occupation business tax receipt first and to meet Sec. 74-781's standards: the business must stay secondary to…

Doral bans any sign that reveals a home occupation or home-based business. Sec. 74-781(7) states no sign indicating the presence of the business may be located on or about the…

Florida's Cottage Food Law (F.S. 500.80) permits Doral residents to produce and sell certain homemade food products without a commercial kitchen license, with annual sales up to…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, a home-based business can't require suppliers to visit onsite, only customary deliveries are allowed, and total vehicle trips can't exceed 45%…

A shed or other residential accessory structure in Doral must be subordinate to the house it sits behind: it can't push the lot's total building coverage past the zoning district's…

Doral permits accessory dwelling units in certain residential zoning districts under its Land Development Code. ADUs must be subordinate to the principal dwelling, meet setback and…

Accessory dwelling units in unincorporated Miami-Dade County must be rented for at least one month at a time: guesthouses can't be rented separately from the main home, and neither one…

Miami-Dade County charges its countywide mobility impact fee on every building permit application, including new accessory dwelling units. Code Section 33E-14(d)(7) exempts accessory…

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…

Doral provides twice-weekly garbage collection and once-weekly yard waste and bulk item pickup for single-family residences through its contracted hauler. Garbage must be in sealed…

Doral's solid waste franchisee may only run curbside residential pickups between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., with no Sunday service except during emergencies or holiday schedule shifts…

Doral requires a city building permit before any commercial or multifamily property builds a garbage storage facility, and every new commercial building or multifamily project over…

Doral requires every garbage can, trash container and dumpster to be fully screened from neighboring properties and the public right-of-way with walls, fences or landscaping, and bars…

Dumping garbage, trash or any waste on vacant or occupied property, streets, alleys, parkways, parks, canals or lakes anywhere in Doral is unlawful under Section 32-72. The article's…

Doral classifies appliances, furniture, major tree-cutback debris and similar large crates as bulky waste and puts the generator, not the city, in charge of disposing of it. Section…

Every Doral apartment, condo or other residential building with four or more units must run a recycling program as of July 1, 2015, separating newspaper, glass, metal food and beverage…

Doral bars anyone but a city- and state-licensed recycling contractor from collecting designated recyclables from multifamily properties under Section 32-102. Section 32-103 backed the…

Miami-Dade's Yard Trash Management Ordinance bans mixing yard trash with garbage and requires bundles no longer than 3 feet and no heavier than 50 pounds; it applies countywide…

Doral does not have a just-cause eviction ordinance. All evictions follow the Florida Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (FL Statute Chapter 83). Landlords may terminate…

Every dwelling in Doral, rented or owner-occupied, has to meet the city's Minimum Housing Code. City Code § 5-61 sets minimum standards for sanitation, utilities, and safe occupancy…

Florida preempts local rent control under Statute 166.043. Doral cannot impose rent caps or limit rent increases. Landlords may raise rent by any amount at lease renewal or with proper…

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…

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 Statute 509.032(7) preempts local regulation of vacation rental bans, duration, and frequency, while FS 83.425 (2023) preempts local regulation of residential tenancies…

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…

Home cultivation of cannabis is illegal in Doral and throughout Florida. Florida law does not permit personal cultivation of marijuana, even for medical marijuana cardholders. Only…

Doral does not currently have licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Center (MMTC) dispensaries operating within city limits. Florida's MMTC licensing is controlled at the state level…

Florida preempts most local cannabis regulation under FL §381.986. Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers must locate at least 500 feet from public or private elementary, middle, or…

Florida MMTCs may deliver medical marijuana directly to qualified patients and caregivers anywhere in the state under FL §381.986 and OMMU rules. Miami-Dade cannot prohibit deliveries…

Doral regulates food trucks through its zoning code and special event permitting. Florida law (2020) preempts local business license requirements beyond the state DBPR license. Food…

Doral limits Class I and Class II mobile food trucks to the Industrial Commercial (IC), Industrial (I) and Industrial-Restrictive (I-R) zoning districts under Sec. 44-355. Trucks…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, mobile food operations cannot set up on a public sidewalk or right-of-way at all: they must vend from approved private property under a County…

Doral enforces no-solicitation signage. Solicitors must respect posted 'No Soliciting' signs and immediately leave properties displaying them. Violating posted no-solicitation signs…

Doral regulates door-to-door solicitation through its Code of Ordinances. Solicitors and peddlers must register with the city and obtain a permit before conducting door-to-door sales…

Doral's parks and recreation director sets and posts daily opening and closing hours for every city park under Code of Ordinances Sec. 29-44, and no one may remain after closing…

Doral has no juvenile curfew ordinance of its own, but Miami-Dade County's curfew applies county-wide. Minors under 17 must be off public places from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through…

Doral bans motor vehicle alarms from sounding for more than 30 minutes between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. if audible at 100 feet. Sec. 26-131 lets police remove offending vehicles from…

Doral bans air conditioners, pool pumps, exhaust fans, filters, and similar mechanical equipment from causing frequent, habitual, or long continued noise plainly audible 100 feet from…

Doral holds bar and nightclub operators strictly accountable for noise: under City Code Sec. 26-130, the business owner or manager, any performer or DJ producing sound, anyone…

Miami-Dade law requires stationary generators and other combustion engines to vent exhaust through a muffler that prevents loud or explosive noise, countywide.

Doral permits tattoo studios by right in its office, neighborhood commercial and corridor commercial districts, and as an ancillary use capped at 5 to 15 percent of floor area in…

A towing company must hold a city permit before recovering, towing or storing any vehicle from private property without the owner's consent, on top of its occupational business…

Doral bars anyone from offering massage for compensation without a state license under F.S. ch. 480, a city business tax receipt, and all other required approvals. Sec. 8-202 sets that…

Doral bans new tobacco, vape, smoking-device, consumable hemp and CBD retailers from locating within 2,500 feet of any K-12 school or place of worship, and within 1,200 feet of another…

Doral confines secondhand-goods retailers and pawnshops to existing shopping or office plazas inside the Industrial Commercial district under City Code Section 74-164, and bans them…

Doral confines pawnshops to the Industrial Commercial (IC) zoning district inside existing shopping or office plazas, bars them from sitting within 500 feet of Doral Boulevard or 1,000…

Doral confines adult bookstores, theaters, entertainment clubs and video stores to the industrial district and, under Sec. 74-556, keeps them 1,000 feet from schools, churches, parks…

Doral doesn't license standalone auto-repair shops in residential areas, but a home-based auto repair operation is squeezed by Sec. 74-781: all work must stay entirely inside the…

Doral runs no red-light cameras, but its council authorized automated speed detection cameras at 15 named schools after a June 12, 2024 public hearing, citing heightened safety risk…

Doral requires every shared micro-mobility device, including dockless rental scooters made available through kiosks or apps, to register with the Doral Police Department and display a…

Miami-Dade County bans stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle on any bicycle path at all times, and bars parking in an exclusive bicycle lane except for a momentary passenger stop.

Miami-Dade County bars Uber, Lyft and other transportation network company (TNC) drivers from picking up riders at designated taxicab stands, soliciting business on the street or…

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…

Every business or professional operating in Doral needs a local business tax receipt and certificate of use before opening, classified and priced by a fee schedule of over 100 business…

Doral bans launching or landing any drone, radio-controlled aircraft, or other aerial apparatus in or on city park land or waterways under Code of Ordinances Sec. 29-41. The rule also…

Miami-Dade County bans operating any recreational drone or model aircraft on, above, or within a defined buffer of any County airport. Section 25-11 of the Code of Miami-Dade County…

Miami-Dade County bans flying drones within one statute mile of runway ends and a half-mile of runway centerlines at every county airport, plus anywhere on or above airport property.

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

Doral requires every construction site to keep the fronting roadway and rights-of-way clean of dirt, sediment and construction dust, and to maintain NPDES-compliant erosion and…

Any development activity in a Doral flood hazard area, from grading to new construction, needs a floodplain development permit before work starts. Section 23-104.1 requires the owner…

Buildings in a Doral special flood hazard area must be elevated at least one foot above whichever is highest of three benchmarks: the base flood elevation, the back-of-sidewalk…

Doral runs a stormwater management utility under Chapter 47, Article II, billing every developed property a monthly fee based on impervious area. Single-family lots pay 1.0 equivalent…

Doral requires a permit before building a residential dock under City Code Section 74-285, with plans and specifications showing the structure's relationship to the seawall, property…

Florida regulates construction seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line through state permits, with uniform standards administered by the Department of Environmental Protection.

Doral requires every condominium and homeowners association community to file an annual emergency response plan that specifically spells out how private roads and access points will be…

Miami-Dade County Code Section 8-40 requires shutters and other opening-protection products to carry a high wind velocity zone approval from the Florida Building Commission, or a…

New and substantially improved homes in Miami-Dade's flood hazard areas must have their lowest floor built at or above the base flood elevation plus freeboard, not just to the federal…

Miami-Dade County adopts the Florida Building Code's High Velocity Hurricane Zone roofing requirements and Roofing Application Standards, but locally bars the prescriptive built-up…

Doral's park rules flatly bar loitering in or around any restroom or dressing room in a city park under Code of Ordinances Sec. 29-54(a). The same section also blocks unapproved paid…

Doral bans smoking and vaping in every city park except parking lots and areas expressly designated for it, under Code of Ordinances Sec. 29-58. A citation carries a flat $50.00 civil…

Miami-Dade County Code Section 21-31.4 makes it a criminal offense to aggressively beg or to obstruct pedestrian or vehicular traffic in any public place. 'Aggressively beg' covers…

Adults who control a residence face criminal penalties if they let an open house party happen there while a minor possesses or drinks alcohol or uses drugs, and they knew or should…

Miami-Dade County Code § 21-31.2 bans drinking or holding an open alcoholic-beverage container within 100 feet of any package store, food store selling alcohol, church, school, day…

Miami-Dade officers can issue a $100 civil citation instead of an arrest for possessing 20 grams or less of cannabis, countywide including all 34 municipalities, entirely at the…

Doral places sidewalk upkeep on the property owner: Code of Ordinances Sec. 30-3 requires every 'responsible party' to keep abutting sidewalks and the public right-of-way free of…

Anyone who digs, excavates, paves or otherwise obstructs or closes a Doral street or sidewalk needs a Maintenance of Traffic (M.O.T.) permit from the public works department first…

Doral bans any building or structure in a mapped street or public right-of-way, but § 83-20 lets the public works director approve two narrow encroachments: a drip-irrigation pumphouse…

Owners of vacant or unimproved lots in Doral carry six specific maintenance duties under Section 20-54: keep the lot clean and sanitary, prevent excessive weed and grass growth, grade…

Doral's code compliance director can declare a dilapidated, unsanitary, or vermin-infested dwelling unfit for human habitation under City Code § 5-103, placard it, order it vacated…

Doral bans camping on any public property citywide under Sec. 26-201, but before enforcing it an officer must first order the person to stop, offer a referral to medical, mental-health…

Florida HB 1365 (2024) prohibits sleeping or camping on public property statewide effective October 1, 2024. Miami-Dade enforces the ban, with citations and arrests possible after…

In Doral parks, Sec. 29-35(a) confines cooking fires to an approved grill, stove, fireplace or other suitable container, bars building or lighting any fire directly on the ground…

Doral regulates its downtown through the Downtown Mixed Use (DMU) zoning district, capping density at 25 units per gross acre, floor area ratio at 0.5 for the first floor, and building…

Doral lets residential developments add up to 30 percent more dwelling units above what their land use category normally allows if two-thirds of the bonus units are set aside as…

Doral requires a sidewalk cafe permit from the community development division before any restaurant sets up outdoor seating, under Sec. 8-42 and Sec. 8-45. The permit runs one year…

Doral requires advance permits through the Parks and Recreation Department for picnic shelters, indoor rental rooms and playgrounds, while large-scale events and festivals need a…

Doral requires a written permit from the chief of police before anyone conducts or manages a demonstration or parade with more than 50 participants. Applications are free but must be…

Doral requires a special event permit from the planning and zoning department before anyone stages a festival, concert, race, carnival or similar public gathering anywhere in the city…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, closing a street for a parade, procession, or block party requires a special event permit from the county's Department of Transportation and Public…

Filming or taking photos on publicly-owned property in Miami-Dade County requires a permit, and the County coordinates that permitting into the 34 municipalities that have signed…

Filming on any city-owned site, facility or right-of-way in Doral requires a permit from the city manager or a designee under Sec. 8-136(a). The permit process, set out in Sec. 8-137…

Doral exempts students and faculty filming exclusively for educational purposes from the general film permit requirement in Sec. 8-136(a). That carve-out sits in Sec. 8-136(b)(3)…

Miami-Dade County waives its public-property film permit for crews under three people only if their noise isn't frequent, habitual, or long and can't be heard past 100 feet: cross that…

Doral caps election signs at four square feet and four feet tall in residential districts, six feet tall in nonresidential districts, and requires them to sit at least five feet from…

Doral caps permanent window signs for commercial and retail uses at 25 percent of window frontage under Land Development Code Section 80-258(a)(6), limits illumination entirely, and…

A Doral garage sale sign is capped at four square feet, must sit at least five feet back from the right-of-way line (15 feet from an interior side line), and can go up only one day…

Doral exempts temporary holiday decorations from the sign permit requirement under Land Development Code Section 80-42(j), but only if they carry no advertising and stay up no longer…

Doral only permits off-premises billboards along the Palmetto Expressway, Dolphin Expressway and Florida Turnpike under Land Development Code Section 80-303, and each sign must sit…

Doral limits digital off-premises billboards, called automatic changing signs, to a citywide cap of four permits under Land Development Code Section 80-308, with each message held for…

Doral does not run a citywide rental inspection registry. City Code § 5-62 lets the city council designate specific 'conservation' or 'rehabilitation' areas for uniform Minimum Housing…

Tenants can file a complaint with the County's Minimum Housing Enforcement Officer, who investigates housing premises of four units or less and inspects with consent, an inspection…

Doral caps how much of a landscaped lot can be grass. Residential and mixed-use lots top out at 60 percent of required landscaped open space (50 percent of net lot area where none is…

Miami-Dade County requires water customers who use reclaimed water as an auxiliary supply to install a backflow preventer on their potable water connection, per WASD's cross-connection…

Doral's Land Development Code caps building coverage by zoning district: single-family districts SF-1 through SF-4 top out at 30 to 35 percent, SF-5 reaches 45 percent, and every…

Doral caps single-family building height at 35 feet across SF-1 through SF-5, allows up to nine stories or 100 feet in the densest multifamily district (MF-4), and ties commercial and…

Doral's Land Development Code fixes minimum yard setbacks by zoning district in one table: SF-1 and SF-2 lots need a 30-foot front yard, SF-4 and SF-5 drop to 25 feet, and every…

Doral's Land Development Code bars prohibited plant species from being newly planted anywhere in the city and requires removal of any already growing on a site covered by Chapter 71…

Doral caps what can be sold at its own events and facilities: City Code § 2-452 requires at least half of all food and beverages offered at a city event or city facility to meet strict…

Doral's Minimum Housing Code requires every property to stay free of rodent and vermin harborage. City Code § 5-139 bars breeding and infestation sites on exterior areas, and § 5-190…

Miami-Dade's contracted needle exchange program, authorized countywide under Sec. 2-78, must maintain written security procedures for every exchange site, including safe disposal of…

Florida lacks a specific bed bug statute, but landlords must maintain habitable rental units under FL §83.51. Miami-Dade Code Compliance enforces minimum housing standards under…

Doral caps garage sales at two per calendar year for each single-family home, multifamily building, or qualifying nonprofit. Every sale needs a free permit from the planning and zoning…

Doral protects any tree with a trunk 18 inches or more in diameter at breast height as a 'specimen tree,' with narrow carve-outs for certain county-listed species, nonnative fruit…

Doral requires street trees along every roadway at a maximum average spacing of 35 feet on center, planted with at least a 14-foot overall height, a four-foot clear trunk, and a…

Any tree with a trunk diameter of 18 inches or more counts as a protected 'specimen tree' under Miami-Dade County's tree ordinance, and removing one requires a Department permit even…

In Doral, no development activity can begin without a development permit backed by a development order under Land Development Code Sec. 53-183. The city carves out nine specific…

Doral requires licensed child care facilities to meet zoning-district rules under Section 74-342 plus outdoor-area and floor-area standards under Section 74-343. The outdoor play area…

Doral inspects construction under Sec. 53-420 against chapter 8 of the Miami-Dade County Code, giving the city authority to reject materials or suspend work, and scheduling the final…

Doral's green building chapter applies mandatory certification to any new building, reconstruction or land development project of 25,000 square feet or more, offering incentives of…

Miami-Dade County Code Section 8-10 requires an electrical permit for every appurtenance, apparatus, or piece of equipment installed inside or attached to a building, structure, lot…

Miami-Dade County Code Section 10-5 limits plumbing permit applications to contractors holding a current certificate of competency, with a narrow owner-occupant exception. A sole owner…

Miami-Dade County Code Section 14-62 requires most sprinkler systems, countywide in both incorporated and unincorporated areas, to meet strict fire-code standards, but expressly…

Doral permits solar collector panels as an accessory use in every zoning district under City Code Section 74-66, but installation must clear building, fire and life safety permitting…

Florida's Solar Rights Act (Statute 163.04) strongly protects homeowners' rights to install solar energy devices in Doral's many HOA-governed communities. HOAs cannot prohibit solar…

Doral limits illuminated off-premises billboards to no more than one foot-candle of light measured four feet from the sign under Land Development Code Section 80-307(2). Flashing…

Doral's land development code bars glare onto abutting residential property from any street, parking, or walkway lighting installed as part of a development. Sec. 74-466 sets a flat…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County, area lighting for parking lots, sports fields and security must be shielded, deflected and permitted before installation.

In unincorporated Miami-Dade County (UMSA), decorative yard elements on residential lots in the AU, EU, GU, and RU zoning districts must sit in front of the principal structure's…

Unincorporated Miami-Dade zones farmland AU, requiring 5 acres and 200 feet of frontage per lot and disclosing Right-to-Farm Act protection to buyers of AU land.

Sellers of AU-zoned or AU-adjacent land in Miami-Dade County must give buyers a signed statement warning that farm activity nearby is lawful and may be shielded from nuisance suits…

Miami-Dade requires every HOA, condo and co-op association to file an annual registration disclosing current special assessments, fees and financial statements to the County.

Every condominium, cooperative and homeowners' association governing residential property in Miami-Dade County must file a written registration with the Department of Regulatory and…

County zoning bars HOA architectural boards in townhouse, rowhouse and cluster-development districts from blocking temporary hurricane storm panels, but leaves HOA sign-off intact for…

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, §…

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…

Miami-Dade County's Historic Preservation Board can designate any building, structure, landscape feature, or archaeological zone as a protected individual site, district, or cultural…

Florida §500.90 preempts local bans on polystyrene foam containers in private commerce. Miami-Dade cannot ban Styrofoam at private restaurants. The county does prohibit polystyrene at…

Florida Statute §403.7033 preempts all local regulation of disposable plastic bags. Miami-Dade and its cities cannot ban or tax single-use plastic bags. Miami Beach passed a bag ban in…

A combined 3% county bed tax hits short stays under six months at hotels, motels, apartments and condos across Miami-Dade, with three cities carved out.

Miami-Dade cannot mandate paid sick leave or predictable scheduling for private employers. House Bill 433 (2024) preempts all local employment benefits, hours, scheduling, and leave…

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…

A County Code Inspector who finds a violation sets a correction deadline based on severity and practicality, then serves a written civil violation notice by mail, hand delivery, or…

Miami-Dade code inspectors don't work off a fixed clock. Section 8CC-3(d) has them weigh severity, danger, and ease of fixing the problem to set a reasonable correction deadline…

Miami-Dade County cites common Code violations, noise, unlicensed business activity, litter, animal offenses, as civil offenses under Chapter 8CC, with a published fine schedule from…

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…

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 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…