Gulfport, FL

Gulfport allows up to ten hens per property but bans roosters outright. Livestock and other poultry stay banned citywide under section 5-12.1, and hens must be fenced in the rear yard…

Gulfport bans keeping any dangerous or carnivorous wild animal, venomous reptile, or vicious domesticated animal inside city limits. Section 5-14 lists species by name, from lions and…

Gulfport bars feeding, trapping, hunting, capturing, or harming any wildlife on city-owned land, a rule that reaches coyotes along with every other wild species. Only the city manager…

Gulfport requires every dog on public property, or on private property without the owner's consent, to be restrained by a leash no longer than 20 feet. The rule covers streets…

Gulfport's zoning code files a veterinary practice under the 'office, business or professional' use, the same category as accountants and physicians, so a vet clinic can open anywhere…

Pinellas County doesn't mandate spay/neuter for every pet, but a dog impounded twice for running at-large within 24 months must be sterilized before its second redemption, and all…

No new pet store can open to retail-sell dogs or cats in Pinellas County; only commercial establishments already operating before January 1, 2022 can hold a retail sales permit.

Sec. 14-37 lets caregivers register community cats in unincorporated Pinellas County under a trap-neuter-vaccinate-return program. A sterilized, rabies-vaccinated, ear-tipped cat cared…

Pinellas County does not have a blanket wildlife-feeding ban, but state law and FWC rules prohibit feeding alligators, bears, sandhill cranes, and other protected species, while…

Pinellas County has no general pet microchip law, but every registered guard dog used by a guard service in the county must be permanently identified by microchip implantation.

Beekeeping in Pinellas County is preempted to the state under Florida Statute 586.10, which gives FDACS exclusive authority over registration, placement, and inspection of managed…

Pinellas County does not impose breed-specific restrictions; Florida Statute 767.14 preempts local breed, weight, and size bans, while Section 14-64 of the county code regulates…

Florida has no standalone hoarding statute; hoarders are prosecuted under Fla. Stat. 828.13 for confining animals without enough good, wholesome food and water, and under 828.12…

Gulfport bans non-operative or unlicensed vehicles from any public right-of-way or public property outright under Code Section 12-2(n). On private residential lots only one such…

Gulfport requires a city manager permit before placing any recreational vehicle on a residential lot under Section 21-2, and Section 21-4 confines it to the side or rear yard, limits a…

Gulfport's off-street parking code lets single-family and duplex homes park in a required front or rear yard, but confines multi-family parking to a screened rear yard only. Sec…

Gulfport designates specific streets as resident-only parking zones under Section 20-4.1, issuing up to two yearly decals per household to residents who show proof of address. Five…

Gulfport requires every commercial building generating delivery traffic to provide its own off-street loading space rather than use the street. Sec. 22-6.06(g) sets the minimum size at…

Gulfport bars parking, storing, or maintaining a commercial vehicle in any residential zoning district under Section 22-6.03(c), though the rule does not stop a commercial vehicle from…

Gulfport bars parking any truck or trailer on a city street for more than thirty minutes between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. without written permission from the police chief. The rule…

Pinellas County Code § 122-35 bars parking in front of any driveway, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, 20 feet of a crosswalk, on a sidewalk, median or bicycle path, but only on roads…

In unincorporated Pinellas County, every accessible parking space must be outlined in blue paint and posted with an above-grade disabled-parking sign, kept repainted by the property…

Unincorporated Pinellas County treats EV charging stations as an optional site element for any development, including multifamily projects: there is no mandate to install them.

Florida caps the drop fee a tower can charge at half the posted rate if the owner shows up mid-tow, requires a signed itemized receipt, and forces storage lots within 10 to 15 highway…

Gulfport bans operating any sound truck or sound-amplifying equipment for commercial advertising anywhere in the city, and separately bans running that equipment for any noncommercial…

Gulfport makes it unlawful to keep any dog that disturbs the neighborhood by barking and howling, and separately enumerates pet noise as a prohibited form of disturbance under its…

Gulfport bans loud radios, CD players and musical instruments between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. if the sound reaches a neighboring dwelling, and the city's general noise limit drops from…

Gulfport bans operating a motor vehicle whose load is loose enough, or whose brakes and other parts are worn enough, to cause excessive and unnecessary noise. The rule sits inside the…

Gulfport caps ambient sound at 65 dBA between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. and 55 dBA overnight from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., measured as A-weighted decibels from any private property…

Construction noise in Gulfport is barred between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, regardless of decibel level. Only…

Gulfport bans barbed wire fencing citywide except in C-1 and C-2 business districts, and bans electrified fences in every zoning district with no exception. Sec. 7-3(e)-(f) sets the…

Gulfport's only retaining-wall standard sits in the seawall chapter: Sec. 6-38 requires seawalls, bulkheads and retaining walls to be concrete construction meeting detailed engineering…

In Gulfport residential districts, Sec. 7-3(g) caps fences at six feet behind the front setback line and four feet in front of the main structure. A visibility triangle at street…

Gulfport requires a permit before building any fence. Sec. 7-3(a) makes anyone wanting to construct a fence disclose the height, material, contractor and location relative to property…

Florida's one statewide fence statute, §588.011, defines a legal fence as at least 3 feet high with three strands of wire on posts no more than 20 feet apart. Residential height…

Gulfport limits all outdoor recreational fires to clean-burning charcoal, coal, manufactured fire logs or untreated dry wood, and flatly bans burning treated wood, yard waste, paper…

Gulfport bans selling or discharging fireworks anywhere in the city except on the state-designated holidays Florida law names for lawful sale and use. On those days, discharge must…

A backyard fire pit in Gulfport must sit in a cleared area at least 15 feet from any structure and at least 5 feet across, and the flame itself is capped at 3 feet wide and 2 feet high…

Every landlord of a Pinellas County single-family home or duplex must install working smoke detection devices under Code § 22-296(8), which incorporates Florida Statute § 83.51(2)(b)'s…

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

A Gulfport homeowner may put one storage building up to 80 square feet and 8 feet tall in a required rear or side yard under § 22-6.03(a)(4); it must sit at least 3 feet from a rear or…

Unincorporated Pinellas has no general tiny-home ordinance. Tiny homes are permitted only inside a special-exception redevelopment of a legally nonconforming mobile home park in a…

Pinellas County requires that either the primary house or the accessory dwelling unit on a single-family lot be owner-occupied before an ADU can operate, per Code § 138-3210(c)(1)c…

Unincorporated Pinellas County caps accessory dwelling units at 1,000 square feet (750 in coastal storm or flood hazard areas), allows only one per lot, and generally requires the…

Gulfport property owners must prune and maintain their trees so they don't block a public right-of-way, visibility triangle, street light or traffic control device under Section…

Gulfport's vacant and foreclosed property maintenance rule, Code Section 27-6(b), lists artificial turf or sod designed for residential, commercial or industrial installation as an…

Removing any tree six inches or more in diameter at breast height, or removing, trimming or altering a mangrove, requires a free permit from Gulfport's community development department…

Gulfport enforces the Southwest Florida Water Management District's water shortage orders as city law under Sec. 11-63. Once the district declares a shortage, violating its irrigation…

Gulfport treats weeds, grasses or other vegetation over 12 inches tall as a public nuisance under Code Section 12-2(a), covering species like ragweed, burdock and sandspur but not…

Unincorporated Pinellas County lets multi-family developments count rainwater harvesting systems toward up to half of their required common open space, if the systems follow LID…

Unincorporated Pinellas County requires at least 60 percent of the plant material used to satisfy landscaping requirements on new development to be native varieties.

Gulfport bars any customer, client, employee, contractor or agent of a home occupation from ever visiting the premises, under § 22-6.03(d)(7). The business also can't generate traffic…

Gulfport allows a home occupation in any residential district only after the City Manager approves a home occupation license under § 22-6.03(d): the business must use no more than 25%…

Gulfport gives home-based businesses no exterior signage at all: § 22-6.03(d)(4) requires that no evidence of a home occupation be detectable from outside the dwelling or accessory…

Gulfport's zoning code defines a family day care home as an occupied residence that regularly provides paid child care, and it caps how many children the home may serve. An unlicensed…

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

Gulfport caps how many guest rooms a bed and breakfast may rent based on the building's gross floor area, from one room under 1,200 square feet up to six rooms above 3,600 square feet…

Gulfport's only recognized short-term lodging use inside a home is the owner-occupied bed and breakfast, and it cannot open by right. Code of Ordinances § 22-5.08(b)(8)d lists it as a…

Short-term rentals in unincorporated Pinellas County must provide one off-street parking space per bedroom, with no on-street or grass parking under Sec. 138-3232.

Pinellas County requires every unincorporated short term rental to designate one responsible party under Code § 138-3232(g)(5), reachable by phone 24 hours a day to handle inspections…

Short term rentals in unincorporated Pinellas County must observe quiet hours from 10:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. daily under Code § 138-3232(g)(3), or a stricter hour if the county's general…

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…

Building a swimming pool or spa in Gulfport requires a building permit under Code Sections 7-2 and 25-3. The permit fee for an in-ground pool, spa or above-ground pool is set as a base…

Pinellas County enforces the Florida Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act, which requires every new residential pool to have at least one approved safety feature to reduce the risk of…

Gulfport Code of Ordinances Section 22-20.11 makes it unlawful to plant any of fourteen invasive tree species listed in section 22-20.07(c) anywhere within the city limits, including…

Gulfport issues every property at least one recycling container and requires residents to use only city-issued bins for curbside recycling. Sec. 11-18 bars the solid waste collector…

Gulfport's authorized collector empties residential garbage containers twice each week under Sec. 11-17. Recycling containers and all commercial garbage containers get emptied at least…

Gulfport requires garbage and trash containers to sit at the alley property line if the property fronts an alley, or at curbside if alley pickup isn't practical. Containers cannot go…

Every property in Gulfport pays a monthly recycling fee under Sec. 11-21(b)(11), whether or not the owner or tenant ever uses the city-issued recycling container. Sec. 11-18(b)…

Gulfport bills bulk and special items separately from regular trash. A single large item runs $26, white goods $52 with doors removed first, tires $26 each and car batteries $14.50…

Dumping garbage, trash, or refuse on any Gulfport street, sidewalk, park, or another person's property is unlawful under Sec. 11-4, punishable by a class III citation, code enforcement…

Gulfport lets residents set loose yard waste like palm fronds and tree limbs curbside without a container, but pieces must be cut under four inches in diameter and four feet long. Sec…

New multi-family and nonresidential properties in Gulfport that use bulk containers or dumpsters must screen them in an enclosure invisible from ground level, per Sec. 11-13(b), with…

Before garbage goes out for pickup in Gulfport, Sec. 11-14 requires every container to be free of liquids, with wet garbage drained and wrapped in paper. Hotels and restaurants skip…

Gulfport bans carrying or drinking alcohol from an open container on any public street, sidewalk, park or beach in the city. The only exception is an outdoor seating area council has…

Gulfport prohibits operating a cycle, skateboard, roller skate or scooter on any public property the city designates off-limits under section 14-60, and riders under 17 must wear a…

Gulfport's loitering ordinance makes it unlawful to accost, approach or solicit others in any public place for begging, soliciting alms or soliciting for immoral purposes. The…

Gulfport's loitering ordinance covers refusing to identify yourself to police while wandering the streets without apparent purpose, blocking a sidewalk or roadway, and prowling on…

Gulfport bans cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products, except unfiltered cigars, on the municipal beach at all times, and inside athletic fields, sports facilities and…

Gulfport's public parks stay open every day from 4:00 a.m. to midnight under Section 17-21, with the city council able to set different hours for a specific park, posted on-site. A…

Gulfport bars anyone under seventeen from loitering, wandering or playing in streets, parks, beaches, docks or other public places between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. A parent, guardian…

Gulfport garage sale signs are capped at one four-square-foot sign on the sale property plus up to three two-square-foot signs on other private land with the owner's permission. No…

Gulfport prohibits any sign with electronic, mechanical or optical movement, including flashing, blinking or color-changing illumination. Sec. 22-17.08(a) exempts only traditional…

In the 49th Street Redevelopment Master Overlay District, City Code § 22-5.16(k)(12)h bans window signs "affixed by tape or other non-permanent methods," alongside box/cabinet signs…

Gulfport allows one political sign per ballot issue, candidate or position on a property, confined to private land. Sec. 22-17.09(a)(6) requires every political sign to come down…

Unincorporated Pinellas County only allows off-premises billboards on industrial-zoned land fronting I-275 or other federal-aid highways, capped at 50 feet tall and spaced at least…

Gulfport requires a permit before anyone builds, alters or removes a pier, dock, seawall, bulkhead, groin or jetty in the city. Sec. 6-34 makes unpermitted waterfront construction…

Gulfport requires a city council permit, granted only after a public hearing, before anyone digs a borrow area or fills or clears a lot. The application must include a registered…

Buildings exempt from the Florida Building Code in Gulfport's flood hazard areas must meet ASCE 24 flood-resistant construction. Accessory structures need flood-resistant materials and…

Gulfport requires a floodplain development permit before any grading, construction, or utility work begins inside a mapped flood hazard area. City Code Sec. 10.5-4.01 routes…

Gulfport bans illicit discharges into its storm sewer system under Sec. 11-93, backed by a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per offense. Every developed parcel also pays a monthly…

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

Gulfport bars sleeping, lying or reclining anywhere on a public right-of-way, sidewalk or alleyway under section 14-47, and separately bars sleeping on the beach, in parks or on other…

Any parade, street festival, carnival or similar public gathering in Gulfport expected to draw more than 600 people at one time, or over 5,000 in a single day, needs a permit from the…

Gulfport has no standalone block-party application form. Instead, Section 17-30 lets the city council, by resolution, temporarily suspend Code provisions and authorize city services…

Gulfport requires a fire marshal permit under Code Section 10-12 for any parade, festival, carnival, or public gathering expected to draw more than 600 people at once or 5,000 people…

Restaurants that want tables on the public sidewalk need an annual sidewalk cafe permit under Sec. 22-6.11. The permit runs October 1 to September 30, costs a council-set fee, and is…

Promoters of outdoor musical or entertainment festivals anywhere in Pinellas County, incorporated or unincorporated, must obtain a county permit at least 90 days before the event and…

Gulfport adopts the Florida Building Code, with amendments, as its building code under Sec. 7-1, and Sec. 7-2 requires a building permit for altering any building or structure. No new…

Gulfport's green building program under Article V of Chapter 7 is voluntary, not mandatory. Sec. 7-35 offers expedited permit review, and Sec. 7-38 cuts the building permit fee in half…

Gulfport adopts the Florida Building Code for all construction, and Sec. 7-1.1 limits every inspection, permit, and certificate of occupancy the city issues to verifying compliance…

Plumbing work in Gulfport needs a permit under Sec. 25-3(1)e., charged as a base fee plus a per-fixture fee. Homeowners can install their own plumbing without hiring a contractor by…

Sec. 26-37 sets the physical-plant rules a Pinellas County children's center must meet: local building, electrical and fire code compliance, plus numeric space ratios for indoor play…

Every Pinellas County short term rental must meet the smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector requirements of the Florida Building Code and the manufacturer's specifications before it…

Gulfport's green building program, adopted by Ordinance 2010-19, gives residential and commercial permit applicants fast-track plan review and a 50 percent permit-fee discount when…

Florida Statute 163.04 preempts HOAs in Pinellas County from prohibiting solar collectors, allowing only narrow placement controls within 45 degrees of due south that do not impair…

Solar energy systems are an allowed accessory use throughout unincorporated Pinellas County, but they must meet district lot-size and setback rules, plus extra height and glare…

Gulfport makes it unlawful to leave dirt, building material or waste on a street, sidewalk or parkway during or after construction. A related rule forces businesses selling messy…

Gulfport puts routine sidewalk upkeep, cleaning, sweeping, edging and clearing debris and vegetation, on the owner, lessee or user of the property next to it, while reserving actual…

Anyone digging into, breaking up, or building, repairing or removing a sidewalk in a Gulfport right-of-way needs a free city permit under Section 17-3, and must follow the city's…

Gulfport requires door-to-door sellers to be invited onto a private residence before knocking, and even invited solicitors may work only between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through…

Before knocking on doors to sell anything in Gulfport, a solicitor must get a badge from the police department: fingerprinting, photographing, a completed application and a $10.00 fee…

Anyone lending money in Gulfport against pledged personal property must hold a city occupational license as a pawnbroker before opening. City Code defines the trade and requires a…

Secondhand stores in Gulfport need a city occupational license before opening, priced by what they sell: $60.00 a year for clothing dealers and $80.00 for dealers in any other…

Gulfport requires a city adult use permit before any adult arcade, bookstore, theater, special cabaret or physical culture establishment can open, and bars these businesses within 300…

Gulfport requires a wrecking or towing service to carry an annual city business license under Code Section 13-34, priced at $40.00 unless the company already holds one of the higher…

Gulfport's zoning code lists auto repair among the home occupations it will not license. Sec. 22-6.03(d)(13)a bars auto repair, along with engine and machine repair, boat building…

Gulfport's zoning code does not license tattoo or body piercing shops directly, but it names them outright as a prohibited use within the Waterfront Redevelopment Overlay District, the…

Unincorporated Pinellas County does not license or regulate massage establishments locally. The county code defers entirely to Florida's Board of Massage Therapy and Chapter 480 of the…

Florida Statute 569.315 expressly preempts the regulation of the marketing, sale, and delivery of nicotine products and dispensing devices to the state, voiding most municipal…

Gulfport designates certain trees as 'specimen' or 'historic' by resolution, and a tree carrying that designation can never qualify for a removal permit under the criteria the city…

Gulfport bans planting fourteen named invasive species, including Australian pine, Brazilian pepper and melaleuca, and any replacement tree required after a removal permit must come…

Planting or removing a tree in a Gulfport right-of-way, public street parkway or other public property requires a permit from the community development department, and the city can…

Gulfport bans mobile food-dispensing vehicles from public rights-of-way and public property except under a special event permit approved by city council. On private land, food trucks…

Every mobile food-dispensing vehicle operating in Gulfport must be purpose-built for vending and licensed under whatever county, state or federal rules apply to the vehicle and its…

Pinellas County bars food carts and trucks that are fixed or parked at a site from sitting on pedestrian walkways or in areas required to stay landscaped, per Code § 138-3247(c)(2)d.3…

Gulfport caps garage sales at three consecutive days and six sales per property or person in any twelve-month period, with at least 60 days between sales on the same property. A free…

Gulfport's nuisance ordinance, Code Section 12-2, lists the conditions code enforcement most often cites: trash and debris, vermin harborage, dilapidated buildings and fences, foul…

A Gulfport code inspector who finds a violation gives written notice and a reasonable time to fix it under Code Section 12-19. If the deadline passes, or the violation repeats, the…

Gulfport's R-1 single-family zoning district requires a front yard at least 25 feet deep, a rear yard at least 25 feet deep, and each side yard at least 6 feet wide, under City Code §…

Single-family and duplex lots in Gulfport's R-1 zoning district may cover no more than forty percent of the lot with buildings, and must keep at least twenty percent as green space…

Single-family and duplex homes in Gulfport's R-1 zoning district are capped at thirty feet and two stories of living area under Code of Ordinances § 22-5.03(g). The R-1A and R-2…

Propane, butane or other liquid-fuel grills, camp stoves and similar cooking devices are excluded entirely from Gulfport's open-burning restrictions, so a gas grill can be used for…

Gulfport's foreclosure registration chapter requires banks and mortgage holders taking title to vacant real property to register it within 10 days and keep it free of weeds and brush…

Gulfport declares any dwelling that is unsafe, unsanitary, unfit for habitation or a fire hazard a substandard building under Code Section 23-21, illegal until repaired or demolished…

Gulfport designates historic landmarks, sites and districts by ordinance after a Historic Preservation Committee hearing, and once designated, alterations, demolition or relocation…

Chapter 23 requires every Gulfport dwelling unit to have a kitchen sink, tub or shower and water closet, hot water at 120 degrees or hotter, working heat capable of hitting 70 degrees…

Pinellas County does not impose rent control; Florida Statute 83.425 preempts all local regulation of residential rent, leaving Florida Statutes Chapter 83 Part II as the controlling…

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 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…

Gulfport opted into the state's Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act under Sections 20-43 through 20-46, authorizing traffic infraction detectors at intersections to catch drivers who run…

Pinellas County bans using a designated bicycle lane for anything except riding a bicycle in the same direction as traffic, on any county road whether it runs through a municipality or…

Pinellas County treats Class 1, 2, and 3 electric bicycles as ordinary bicycles on county-owned parks and trails, restricting them to designated bike trails and banning boardwalks…

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…

Gulfport bars any direct connection between a reclaimed water irrigation line and a customer's potable water pipes under Code Section 11-76(d)(7). Found cross-connections must be…

Gulfport's building official inspects dwelling units for fitness on his own initiative or after receiving a complaint under Code Section 23-20. Inspectors keep a record of every…

Unincorporated Pinellas County inspects every short-term rental before its first certificate of use and again every two years at renewal, checking life-safety compliance with bedroom…

Every business operating in Gulfport pays an annual occupational license tax under Code Section 13-34, with rates set by classification, from $200.00 for an abstract company to $625.00…

Gulfport's zoning code lists 'medical marijuana dispensing facilities' as a permitted principal use, by right, in the CL-1, CL-2 and CG commercial districts, and in the…

Home cannabis cultivation is illegal throughout Pinellas County under Florida Statute 381.986, which channels all medical marijuana production through licensed Medical Marijuana…

Within the 49th Street Redevelopment Master Overlay District, City Code § 22-5.16(j)(5) requires outdoor fixtures to be positioned so land beyond the parcel's boundaries is not…

Within the 49th Street Redevelopment Master Overlay District, City Code § 22-5.16(j) requires every light fixture to be a cut-off type that stops direct illumination above 40 degrees…

Gulfport's sign lighting rules bar floodlights or spotlights from shining directly onto neighboring property or into the eyes of drivers and pedestrians. Sec. 22-17.12(b) also forbids…

Gulfport's minimum housing code requires basement and cellar openings that could let rodents in to be screened or otherwise sealed under Code Section 23-61, and makes occupants and…

Pinellas County authorizes a contracted, single-operator sterile needle and syringe exchange program under F.S. § 381.0038(4). The operator exchanges used needles one-for-one at fixed…

Gulfport's Sec. 22-6.13 building design standards apply to every residential structure in the conservation overlay district and every multi-story building in the waterfront…

Pinellas County lets affordable housing developments earn a density bonus and development-standard flexibility during review, per Code § 138-3211(c)(2)a, provided the project is…

Recreational drones over Pinellas County are governed primarily by FAA rules and Florida Statute 330.41, with county authority limited to take-off, landing, and nuisance enforcement.

On county-owned or managed parks and preserves in unincorporated Pinellas County, no drone may take off or land without written permission from the Parks and Conservation Resources…

Commercial drone operations in Pinellas County require an FAA Part 107 remote pilot certificate, with Florida Statute 330.41 preempting most local in-air regulation.

Unincorporated Pinellas County caps low-frequency bass noise at 65 dB in the 31.5 to 500 Hertz octave bands whenever it's detectable on a neighboring parcel.

Bars, nightclubs and other commercial-zone businesses in Pinellas County can't exceed 66 dBA against a residential zone from 7 a.m.-11 p.m., dropping to 55 dBA overnight, under Sec…

Generators and similar equipment that must run around the clock near homes in Pinellas County need an acoustical enclosure during quiet hours unless they stay under 55 dBA, per Sec…

Unincorporated Pinellas County caps noise from a residential air conditioning, heating or ventilating unit at 60 dBA, measured at the nearest adjacent property line, at any time of…

Pinellas County levies a 6 percent tourist development tax on rentals of 6 months or less at hotels, motels, condos, timeshares, RV parks and mobile home parks, countywide including…

Pinellas County's Land Development Code treats commercial farming, raising crops, livestock, poultry or dairy for sale, as its own zoning use under § 138-3330, separate from backyard…

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…

Commercial filming and events facilitated by the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Convention & Visitors Bureau on county property require a permit issued by the county administrator or…

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…