Hialeah, FL

Hialeah does not prohibit artificial turf installation on residential property. FL Statute Section 373.185 supports water-efficient landscaping alternatives. HOAs cannot unreasonably…

Hialeah's occupied-property rule is separate from its vacant-lot rule: Sec. 78-33 makes the property owner, occupant and tenant jointly responsible for keeping the front, side and rear…

Hialeah follows Miami-Dade County's tree protection framework under County Code Section 24-49, which mandates protection of tree and forest resources. Removal of protected native…

Florida law (FL Statute Section 373.228) encourages rainwater harvesting statewide. Hialeah residents may collect rainwater from rooftops using rain barrels and cisterns without a…

Florida law (FL Statute Section 373.185) protects homeowners' right to install Florida-Friendly landscaping and prohibits HOAs and local governments from requiring traditional turf…

SFWMD two-day-per-week irrigation applies in Hialeah. Odd addresses: Wed/Sat. Even: Thu/Sun. Before 10 AM or after 4 PM. Year-round.

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…

Tree trimming in Miami-Dade County does not require a permit if done per ANSI A-300 standards. However, excessive pruning such as hat-racking, topping, or lion-tailing that effectively…

Sec. 58-47(a) of the Hialeah Code bars operating or playing a radio, TV, tape, record, CD, DVD, musical instrument or other sound device that creates a 'noise disturbance' beyond a…

Sec. 58-47(b) of the Hialeah Code presumes it a nuisance to operate or cause the operation of construction, drilling or repair tools and equipment between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m…

Sec. 58-48(c) of the Hialeah Code exempts 'any noise generated by the movement of aircraft according to applicable federal laws or regulations' from the city's entire noise article, so…

Hialeah makes it unlawful for any animal owner to let a pet disturb neighbors with habitual noise. Sec. 10-2(d) bars animals from causing 'annoyance, alarm or otherwise unreasonably…

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…

Miami-Dade County bars playing a vehicle stereo loud enough to be heard 100 feet away between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., and requires every vehicle exhaust to run through an effective muffler.

Leaf blowers and other power landscaping tools can't run outdoors at a residence between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. countywide.

Miami-Dade County bans loud radios, TVs and stereos audible 100 feet away between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., a rule enforced countywide unless a municipality has adopted its own noise…

Sec. 58-13 of the Hialeah Code makes it unlawful to park a motor vehicle, trailer, RV, moped, bus or vessel on a sidewalk, curb, a raised landscaped swale next to a sidewalk, or in a…

Florida Statute Section 366.94 promotes EV infrastructure and limits local restrictions on home charging installations. Hialeah residents need an electrical permit to install a Level 2…

Hialeah Code Sec. 98-2202 sets minimum off-street loading spaces whenever a building is newly constructed or an existing structure's floor area grows by 50 percent or more. Retail…

Hialeah Code Sec. 98-2206 makes it unlawful to leave an abandoned, junked or mechanically incapacitated vehicle parked on any public right-of-way, swale or other public property, and…

Hialeah follows Miami-Dade Code §33-124.1 for commercial-vehicle parking in residential zones: Cat. 1 (taxis/marked vans under 8 ft): max 2 per home; Cat. 2 (utility/landscape…

Hialeah adopted its own RV and boat rules in 2024 (Ordinance 2024-013, Chapter 98 zoning), not Miami-Dade Section 33-20. A residential property may keep only one RV and one boat, and…

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.

In UMSA's AU, RU-1, RU-2 and RU-3 districts, driveways and parking areas may be graveled, mulched or hard-surfaced; every other zoning district requires hard-surfacing.

Hialeah allows veterinarians to operate as a permitted professional-services use in the RO residential office district under Code Sec. 98-777, the same category as physicians and…

Hialeah bans keeping any wild, dangerous or undomesticated animal as a pet, from predatory mammals to reptiles and game birds. Sec. 10-2(a) makes it unlawful to 'harbor, maintain…

Hialeah bans keeping livestock, including chickens and other fowl, anywhere in the city except on property lawfully zoned agricultural. Sec. 10-1 defines livestock to include fowl…

Hialeah bars owners from letting any animal roam 'at large,' meaning off the owner's premises or beyond the owner's custody and control. Sec. 10-2(c) makes it unlawful to permit an…

Hialeah prohibits feeding wildlife that creates public nuisances, particularly feral cats, iguanas, and waterfowl. The city's warm climate and canal systems attract significant…

Florida law strips Hialeah of any power to regulate backyard beekeeping. F.S. § 586.10(1) preempts 'the authority to regulate, inspect, and permit managed honeybee colonies and to…

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 pet shops and pet dealers may sell only dogs and cats sourced from a registered breeder, public shelter, or registered rescue or hobby breeder: direct puppy-mill sourcing is…

Miami-Dade County caps dogs six months or older at 4 on lots under an acre, 6 on 1-2 acre lots, and 8 on lots of 2+ acres before a kennel license is required.

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's 1989 pit bull ban was repealed effective October 1, 2023 by state law. Florida now preempts all breed-specific legislation statewide. All dogs are regulated under…

Hialeah bars home offices from receiving customer or client visits entirely. Sec. 98-2030(c)(5) of the zoning code allows only deliveries of office supplies and repair or installation…

Hialeah allows a home office as a secondary use in R-1, R-Z, R-2, R-3 and R-4 zoning districts, capped at 200 square feet of living area, one per residence, and staffed only by…

Hialeah bans exterior signs or commercial advertising for home offices entirely. Sec. 98-2030(c)(6) allows no signs or other forms of commercial advertisement outside the residence…

Hialeah treats a licensed family day care home as a valid residential use in any residential zoning district under Sec. 98-2032. Capacity is capped by Sec. 98-2031 at groups as small…

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

Hialeah Code Sec. 98-2123 bans barbed wire fences outright in every residential zoning district, and Sec. 98-2122 outlaws electrified fences citywide except on industrial-zoned…

In Hialeah's industrial zoning districts, the city will not issue a building permit for a fence or wall between adjoining lots if it falls inside the mandatory five-foot, one-inch…

Hialeah caps residential fences, walls and hedges at four feet along the front lot line and six feet along side and rear lot lines under Sec. 98-2121. Near driveways and alleys, front…

Miami-Dade County requires a retaining wall or equivalent feature whenever site grading raises a lot more than 1.5 feet above the elevation of adjacent properties, per DERM's…

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.

Hialeah requires a building permit before any swimming pool or its safety barrier is built, under City Code Sec. 98-2021. No pool permit may be issued unless a safety-barrier permit is…

Hialeah strictly enforces Florida's Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act (FL Statute Section 515.29) and Florida Building Code pool barrier requirements. All residential pools must…

Hialeah caps a residential utility shed at 100 square feet and 8 feet tall, requires it to sit in the rear yard on a three-foot perimeter setback, bars plumbing or living use, and…

Hialeah ADU regulations follow Miami-Dade County standards. ADUs permitted in qualifying zones inside the Urban Development Boundary. HVHZ building code applies. Owner occupancy…

Garage conversions to ADUs in Hialeah follow Miami-Dade standards. Min 5,000 sq ft lot, 220 sq ft habitable. Building permits and HVHZ compliance required. Licensed contractors…

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…

Hialeah and Miami-Dade County do not impose annual night caps on short-term rentals. Florida Statute 509.032(7)(b) preempts cities from regulating the duration or frequency of vacation…

Florida law (FL Statute Section 509.032) requires STR operators to maintain adequate liability coverage. Hialeah STR hosts should carry at minimum $300,000 to $1,000,000 in liability…

Hialeah enforces occupancy limits for short-term rentals based on the Florida Building Code and local zoning regulations. Maximum occupancy is generally calculated by bedroom count and…

Hialeah short-term rentals (rented more than 3 times per year for periods under 30 days) must obtain a Miami-Dade County Certificate of Use (CU), DBPR vacation rental license under FS…

Hialeah STR properties must provide adequate off-street parking per zoning requirements. Vehicles must not block driveways or create neighborhood congestion.

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, the vacation-rental ordinance only covers stays under 30 days; renting a home or room for a full month or longer falls outside Section 33-28's…

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…

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…

Miami-Dade County denies Certificate of Use renewal to unincorporated-area vacation rentals with three or more code violations in 12 months unless outstanding violations are cured and…

Miami-Dade County bans outdoor amplified sound at unincorporated vacation rentals at any time and requires guests to follow the county's general noise ordinance, with fines up to…

Miami-Dade County collects a 6% Convention and Tourist Tax on short-term rentals: 3% Convention Development Tax, 2% Tourist Development Tax, and 1% Sports Franchise Tax. Combined with…

Hialeah enforces the Florida Building Code Residential Section R314 and NFPA 72 for smoke alarms. Alarms are required in every sleeping room, outside sleeping areas, and on each story…

Consumer fireworks in Hialeah may only be used on July 4th, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day per FL HB 1059. Aerial fireworks sale prohibited. Sparklers legal year-round.

Miami-Dade County bans all open outdoor fires countywide, including the 34 municipalities, unless the fire fits one of six narrow exceptions written into the code. DERM enforces the…

Miami-Dade County exempts small, contained recreational fires, three feet in diameter, two feet high, from its open-burning permit requirement, but larger bonfires need a 50-foot…

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

Hialeah parks are off-limits overnight: fenced or gated parks close when the gates lock and reopen the next day, while unfenced parks carry a straight 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. curfew…

Miami-Dade bars anyone under 17 from public and semi-public places countywide from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and midnight to 6 a.m. Friday night through Sunday…

Hialeah has no separate habitability code of its own: Sec. 50-26 adopts the substantive provisions of Miami-Dade County's Minimum Housing Standards Ordinance, County Code sections 17-1…

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 effectively bans local rent control. State law bars any city or county from imposing controls on rents, and the 2023 Live Local Act removed the old narrow exception that had…

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…

Hialeah caps secondhand goods dealer licenses at one per 4,500 residents citywide, requires a $100 annual license with a police background check, and mandates 30-day holds and detailed…

Anyone pawning or reselling gold, silver or platinum in Hialeah must hold a $100 precious metal dealer license from the business tax division, pass a police background check, and hold…

Every Hialeah smoke shop, defined to include retail tobacco, nicotine and vape dealers, must hold a state nicotine/tobacco dealer permit, post an under-21 warning sign, check ID unless…

Hialeah confines adult bookstores, video stores, motion picture theaters, relaxation spas, body-painting studios, exotic dance studios and encounter parlors to zones that already…

Tattoo parlors pay a $175 annual business tax under classification 812199T and must hold a biomedical waste permit from the Miami-Dade County Health Department before the city treats…

Wrecker companies doing city-initiated towing need a separate regulatory license on top of their occupational license, with an $800 application fee, employee background checks, and…

Miami-Dade County requires massage establishments to hold a Local Business Tax Receipt, taxed at $30 plus $3 per employee above ten, before operating anywhere in the county.

In unincorporated Miami-Dade (UMSA), you can only fix your own car at home, in daylight, and only minor work finished within 72 hours.

Hialeah Code Sec. 58-4(b) makes loitering a civil infraction, covering standing, remaining or sleeping on public streets, sidewalks, overpasses, bridges, parks or libraries in ways…

Smoking and vaping, including cannabis and hemp products under the chapter's own definition, are banned on all Hialeah park property, recreational facilities and public buildings under…

Sec. 58-10 of the Hialeah Code bans skateboarding outright on public sidewalks, parking lots, driveways and other pedestrian-traffic areas within every commercially zoned district in…

Hialeah bans soliciting money or anything of value at street corners and intersections citywide, and separately bars door-to-door solicitation of chattels or valuables in residential…

Alcohol is banned outright on Hialeah's parks, playgrounds, pools and recreation centers, with only the Milander Center allowed to serve beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages, and…

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 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…

Sec. 58-12 of the Hialeah Code bars operating a motorized scooter, a self-propelled seatless vehicle on three wheels or fewer that is not state-licensed, anywhere on city sidewalks…

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…

Miami-Dade County authorizes speed detection cameras in school zones only in unincorporated areas (UMSA) under a 2023 county ordinance implementing new state law, since there is no…

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…

New or substantially improved homes in Hialeah's special flood hazard areas must elevate the lowest floor to the ASCE 24 standard or eight inches above the crown of the road, whichever…

Hialeah runs its own Stormwater Utility, billing every developed residential and nonresidential parcel an ERU-based fee to fund citywide drainage systems. Miss the due date and a 10…

Any development in a Hialeah special flood hazard area, from new buildings to filling and grading, needs a development permit and must be reasonably safe from flooding under the city's…

Miami-Dade County requires a DERM environmental permit before building any dock, davit, boat lift, mooring or fender pile in tidal waters, with a streamlined short-form process for…

Miami-Dade County requires erosion and sedimentation controls for construction near rights-of-way or water bodies, spelled out in a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan that DERM must…

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

Hialeah Code Sec. 78-108 requires garbage, waste and recycling dumpsters serving multifamily, commercial or industrial property to sit in a screened, masonry-enclosed spot at least ten…

Hialeah's solid waste department collects recyclables every two weeks in city-issued containers, and every household account holder must separate and set out recyclables or face a…

The city's solid waste department has exclusive collection authority: Sec. 78-68 sets garbage pickup twice weekly, Sec. 78-62 sets recycling once every two weeks, and Sec. 78-70 sets…

Dumping trash or garbage anywhere in Hialeah, public or private property, is unlawful under Sec. 58-27, covering streets, alleys, rights-of-way, parks, canals and lakes. Violators face…

Hialeah runs a mandatory citywide residential recycling program: Sec. 78-63 requires every household account holder to separate recyclables into the city-issued container, and failing…

Hialeah dictates exactly where and when garbage carts go out: Sec. 78-69 requires placement on the swale or curb cut, three feet from the street edge and five feet from other objects…

Hialeah collects bulk yard waste, branches, grass clippings and palm fronds, once a month on alternating months, separate from regular bulk trash, up to eight cubic yards per residence…

Bulk trash pickup in Hialeah comes with a hard cap: Sec. 78-70 allows eight cubic yards per residence per collection day, placed clear of buildings, fences, poles and hydrants by at…

Miami-Dade County's Department of Solid Waste Management won't collect bulky waste from the curb until you first schedule a pickup, and it never hauls construction debris, dirt, rock…

Any march, motorcade, procession or parade that uses a Hialeah street, roadway or public right-of-way needs a permit approved by the city council under conditions the council sets for…

Reserving a picnic shelter or group gathering space at a Hialeah park requires an advance reservation for a specific date and time under Sec. 62-24(a); unreserved shelters can be used…

In Hialeah's CR commercial-residential district, outdoor seating at restaurants and cafes must close by 11:00 p.m. under Code Sec. 98-877(a)(9). Supper clubs and nightclubs get no…

Hialeah requires city council approval before anyone closes a street or hosts a gathering of 50 or more people, whether a block party, festival or rally. Sec. 18-27 makes it unlawful…

Any festival, street fair or commercial gathering of 50 or more people in Hialeah needs a city council-approved special event permit. Sec. 18-27 bars conducting a 'special event'…

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…

Hialeah requires every lot owner, improved or unimproved, to keep the parcel free of accumulated garbage, weeds, vines and debris. Grass or weeds taller than six inches is prima facie…

Hialeah requires every exterior building and wall surface to be properly painted or coated and kept free of chipping, cracking, discoloration or peeling. Maintaining any structure or…

Grilling and open-flame cooking in Hialeah's city parks is confined to picnic areas the recreation and community services department has specifically designated for that use. Sec…

Hialeah requires a hard-wired carbon monoxide detector on every floor of new residential construction that has habitable space, plus interconnected smoke detectors in every bedroom and…

Hialeah does not write its own building code; Sec. 14-2 adopts the Florida Building Code and specified Miami-Dade County code sections by reference as the city's construction standard…

Hialeah has no stand-alone local plumbing chapter; it adopts the latest Florida Building Code, including its Plumbing volume, by reference, with permit fees set through the building…

Hialeah requires every family day care home and large family child care home to comply with the city fire code and pass a $50.00 inspection, per Sec. 98-2033. A passing inspection…

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 requires most buildings, except single-family homes, duplexes, and small minor structures, to undergo structural and electrical recertification inspection once they reach a…

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…

Miami-Dade County fast-tracks permit review for green buildings certified or registered under recognized rating systems like LEED, instead of imposing a separate green building code.

Hialeah only allows storm shutters and similar hurricane protection to stay closed during a declared emergency, to cover a broken window for up to 30 days, to secure a business after…

Miami-Dade requires residents and businesses to secure outdoor loose objects the moment a tropical storm or hurricane advisory is issued, so they don't become windborne debris.

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…

Hialeah's R-1 one-family district sets a 20-foot front yard, side yards of at least 10 percent of the lot's average width (minimum 5'1", maximum 7.5 feet), and a 20-foot rear yard…

Hialeah caps building footprint at 43 percent of lot area in the R-Z residential zero lot line district under Code Sec. 98-830, the only zoning division in the code that states a…

Hialeah caps single-family homes in the R-1 one-family district at 2½ stories or 35 feet under Sec. 98-498. The R-2 one- and two-family district carries the identical cap, and Sec…

Hialeah residents who dispute a water or sewer bill because of a hidden leak must file written notice with the water and sewer department within 30 days under Code Sec. 94-195. The…

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…

WASD offers conservation rebates for replacing high-water-use turf with Florida-friendly landscaping, micro-irrigation, and rain sensors in unincorporated Miami-Dade and participating…

Hialeah still carries an A agricultural zoning district under Code Sec. 98-451, permitting farms, nurseries, greenhouses, orchards, dairies and cattle and poultry raising by right…

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…

Hialeah caps how bright a building can shine toward residential neighbors: Sec. 74-178 limits illumination on buildings facing homes to standard parking-lot wattage and requires…

Hialeah measures digital billboard brightness against ambient light rather than a fixed number. Sec. 74-150(i)(4) requires an automatic light sensor and caps output at no more than…

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

The business tax administrator decides disputed business classifications, unlisted businesses are taxed under the closest matching category, and owners get ten working days to appeal a…

Before Hialeah issues a license to any bar, nightclub or other establishment offering entertainment, Sec. 18-238 requires the space to be completely soundproof so that no noise from…

Sounding a car horn, alarm, or other vehicle signaling device with unreasonably loud, harsh sound, or for an unnecessary period is banned countywide under Miami-Dade's noise ordinance…

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

Hialeah requires every peddler or itinerant vendor to get a city license, provide a state sales tax ID, and display a city identification card with license number while working, under…

Hialeah respects residents' right to refuse solicitors through posted no-soliciting signs. Solicitors who ignore posted signs may face trespassing charges under Florida law. The city's…

Anyone who wants to break into a Hialeah sidewalk, street or right-of-way, or run pipe beneath one, needs a streets department permit first. The permit holder must restore the area…

Hialeah bars obstructing any part of the swale, the right-of-way strip between the sidewalk and street, or any street or public roadway, under Sec. 82-5 and Sec. 82-33. Property owners…

Hialeah puts the duty to keep abutting sidewalks, driveways, curbs and gutters safe on the property owner, occupant or agent, not the city. Owners must inspect and report unsafe…

Inside the Okeechobee Rapid Transit Zone overlay, Hialeah requires street trees along every street at an average 25-foot on-center spacing with at least a four-inch trunk diameter at…

Miami-Dade County requires a DERM permit before anyone trims, cuts, or alters a mangrove tree anywhere in the county, and bans top pruning of mangroves in coastal band communities…

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…

Hialeah's sign code exempts holiday decorations from the standard sign permit that every other sign in the city needs. Sec. 74-87(6) lets residents and businesses put up seasonal…

Hialeah's sign code caps most wall-mounted signage at ten percent of a building's facade, but window signs get a specific carve-out. Under Sec. 74-218(2), window and door signs escape…

Hialeah treats political campaign signs as a 'specific purpose sign' under Sec. 74-148(c)(3), capping them at 8 square feet and 2 feet in height, one per lot or per street frontage per…

On-premise LED signs in Hialeah are confined to industrial and commercial property with 100 feet of frontage, restricted to three commercial corridors, and may only advertise the…

Off-site billboards are banned everywhere in Hialeah except through the billboard replacement program in Sec. 74-150, which lets owners of existing legal nonconforming billboards…

Miami-Dade County bans erecting garage sale signs on any County-owned right-of-way; the Public Works Director can remove them on sight, and enforcement runs through Code Enforcement…

Hialeah food trucks may operate only on property zoned C-2, TOD, or NBD, or in the public right-of-way on a first-come basis, and must stay 500 feet from any gasoline station or…

Hialeah's peddler ordinance, which by definition excludes food truck operators, bars foot vendors from stopping to sell at a fixed sidewalk spot and from storing or displaying any…

Hialeah requires every mobile food dispensing vehicle to carry a current state Division of Hotels and Restaurants license and a city business tax receipt on board, plus site-plan or…

Redevelopment inside Hialeah's Neighborhood Business District (NBD) overlay, which covers the Palm Avenue and East 4th Avenue corridors near downtown, must follow adopted NBD design…

In Hialeah's NBD Neighborhood Business District overlay, developers earn density above the 32-unit-per-acre base, up to 70 units per net acre, and height above the 55-foot, five-story…

Hialeah limits garage and yard sales to two weekends per calendar year under City Code Sec. 98-1926. The sale must take place in a residential zoning district, on the premises of the…

Solar panels in Hialeah require building permits. All must meet HVHZ wind load. FL §163.04 protects right to install. FPL net metering available. HOAs cannot ban.

Florida law voids any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA agreement that bans or effectively blocks solar collectors on homes or condo units, and boards cannot deny installation…

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 confines radio-controlled and model aircraft, including hobby drones, to areas specifically set aside for that use inside every County park. Rule 15 of Section 26-1…

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.

Miami-Dade's Minimum Housing Enforcement Officer inspects rental dwellings countywide on complaint or owner request, not on a routine schedule, under the Minimum Housing Standards…

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…

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…

Filming or taking photos on publicly-owned or controlled property in Miami-Dade County requires a permit, issued by the County Mayor's designee for County sites and coordinated with…

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…

Miami-Dade County waives its film and photo permit fee for students and faculty producing exclusively educational content on county-owned or controlled property, provided the school…

Miami-Dade's minimum housing code makes occupants responsible for exterminating insects, rodents, and vermin in single-unit rentals, but shifts that duty to the owner when infestation…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Miami-Dade treats Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers as pharmacies under FL §381.986 pharmacy parity. Retail dispensing is allowed in commercial and business zones where pharmacies…

Florida prohibits home cultivation of cannabis for both recreational and medical use; only state-licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers may grow cannabis.

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…

Miami-Dade County bans the sale, propagation, planting, importation and transportation of about 60 listed invasive exotic species countywide, and requires removal from development…

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…