Kissimmee, FL

Kissimmee limits building erection, excavation, demolition, alteration and repair work to 7 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays; noise from the work still can't exceed the…

Kissimmee bars residential noise that's plainly audible 15 feet from the property line between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.: audibility at that distance is itself the violation, no decibel meter…

Kissimmee caps outdoor noise by zoning use and time of day: 60 dBA for residential areas by day (55 at night), up to 75 dBA for commercial and office areas, measured at the property…

Kissimmee lets bars, restaurants and businesses run outdoor loudspeakers for continual use, but the speakers must shut down 10 p.m.-7 a.m. and stay 1,000 feet from a permitted special…

Kissimmee's noise ordinance carves out motor vehicles entirely: loud car stereos, exhausts, and engine noise fall under state and federal law instead of the city's own decibel limits…

Osceola County makes it unlawful for an owner to let an animal bark, howl, or make other objectionable noise repeatedly enough to disturb neighbors under Code § 4-31(a), and separately…

Aircraft noise is not regulated by Osceola County's noise ordinance at all. Sec. 9-110(h)(5) exempts 'locomotives and other railroad equipment, and aircraft' outright from every…

Osceola County sets no separate leaf-blower ordinance. Gas and electric lawn, garden and household maintenance tools, including leaf blowers, are exempt from noise limits only between…

Kissimmee caps all vegetation on landscaped property, grass, weeds, ground cover, at 12 inches above grade, measured with a ruler or tape measure rather than left to inspector judgment.

Kissimmee requires all trees, shrubs, and vines used to satisfy its landscaping code to be selected from the UF/IFAS Florida-Friendly Plant List, with at least half of all trees and…

Removing, altering or relocating a protected tree in Kissimmee requires a permit: reviewed with site plan or plat approval for new development, or a standalone application through the…

Kissimmee bans irrigation citywide between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. every day, with listed exceptions for micro-irrigation, new landscaping, hand watering, pool maintenance, and…

Kissimmee requires property owners to keep tree and shrub branches trimmed to at least seven feet above sidewalks and 14 feet above streets and alleys. The rule sits inside the city's…

Kissimmee requires every non-residential building to provide its own off-street loading and unloading zone, sized by building square footage, so delivery trucks do not block streets or…

Kissimmee bars parking in fire lanes, crosswalks, and intersections, within 15 feet of a hydrant, blocking a driveway, or against the flow of traffic; violators get a citation from a…

Kissimmee's downtown form-based code exempts electric vehicle chargers from the mechanical-equipment screening requirement that otherwise makes HVAC units, generators, and transformers…

Kissimmee caps outdoor recreational vehicles and trailers at a single-family, duplex, triplex or townhouse home to three total, limits placement between the dwelling and the street…

Kissimmee bans recreational vehicles and trailers of 30 feet or longer from residential streets entirely, and unoccupied RVs kept on a home lot must sit on a paved surface, not gravel…

Kissimmee bars abandoned, inoperative, wrecked, dismantled, or discarded vehicles from any property or right-of-way, and caps unlicensed vehicles at one per residential property.

Kissimmee prohibits parking, displaying, or storing vehicles on grass or other unpaved surfaces in residential front and side yards, with narrow exceptions for two spaces beside a…

Osceola County has no blanket overnight street-parking ban, but on-street parking requires an HOA-displayed permit, and you can't block driveways, park on vacant lots or the…

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…

Kissimmee confines veterinary clinics to specific commercial and industrial zoning districts and bans them outright as a home business anywhere in the city. Land Development Code Table…

Kissimmee has designated its entire corporate limits as a bird sanctuary under city code, though the ordinance does not itself spell out specific hunting or harm restrictions.

Kissimmee caps domestic fowl at three birds per property and requires a minimum one-acre lot to keep them, so most standard residential lots cannot legally keep chickens or other…

Kissimmee declares it a nuisance, and expressly prohibits, letting any domestic dog run at large within city limits. City Code section 6-20(c) exposes owners to the general penalty, up…

Kissimmee residential properties may keep up to five dogs and/or cats over four months old without a permit; keeping more triggers the city's kennel rules and requires city commission…

Osceola County has no breed-specific ban; instead, Code § 4-36 lets Animal Services classify any individual dog as 'dangerous' after an investigation and hearing, triggering mandatory…

Osceola County does not require every pet to be spayed or neutered, but County Code § 4-9(e) mandates sterilization once a fertile dog or cat has been impounded three or more times…

Osceola County bans traditional pet-store sales of dogs and cats: any pet shop must source every dog and cat it offers from an animal shelter or rescue, never from a commercial…

Osceola County bars leaving pet or community-cat food outside after dark because it can attract wildlife capable of carrying rabies, under Code § 4-31(h), though registered community…

Osceola County requires every cat four months or older to carry a rabies vaccination and a county license tag, but community cats, defined as free-roaming cats cared for by residents…

Florida law requires every beekeeper to register their honeybee colonies with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, obtain inspection certificates, and renew annually…

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) regulates exotic and captive wildlife statewide. Possession of Class I, II, and III wildlife requires FWC permits, and state law…

Kissimmee splits home businesses into two zoning tiers under Land Development Code § 14-6-7: "standard" home occupations, allowed by-right in any residential district with no client…

Kissimmee bans signage entirely for a standard home occupation, the by-right home-business category: Land Development Code § 14-6-7.A.3 states "no signs shall be permitted to…

Kissimmee allows family day care homes as a home occupation in residential zoning, but caps signage at one small placard, bars outdoor storage, and requires the use not add to…

Standard home occupations in Kissimmee cannot have any client presence on-site, with narrow exceptions for tutoring and licensed family day care, and are capped at ten vehicle trips…

Florida lets you make and sell certain non-hazardous foods from your Osceola County home kitchen without a state food permit, as a cottage food operation, as long as annual gross sales…

Kissimmee prohibits all open burning inside city limits unless the fire department issues a permit, bans yard-trash burning wherever curbside pickup is offered, and lets fire crews…

Kissimmee bans any LP-gas container over 1,000 gallons anywhere in the city and caps total residential propane storage at 1,000 gallons of aggregate capacity across all tanks on a site.

Kissimmee's minimum property maintenance code requires a working smoke alarm outside every bedroom or bedroom cluster and on every story of a dwelling unit, crawl spaces and…

Kissimmee allows recreational campfires and bonfires only if they sit at least 50 feet from any structure, stay enclosed in a noncombustible container or grill, and keep 25 feet clear…

Osceola County bans detonating, exploding or using fireworks anywhere in the unincorporated county unless the board of county commissioners has issued a fireworks permit for the…

Osceola County does not use California-style mapped wildfire hazard zones with construction mandates. Instead, wildfire risk is managed through Florida Forest Service coordination and…

Kissimmee requires a self-closing, self-latching barrier at least 48 inches tall around any private pool, spa, or hot tub deeper than 24 inches, under the city's property-maintenance…

A building permit is required to build a residential swimming pool in unincorporated Osceola County, and the pool must pass final inspection with at least one state-mandated safety…

Kissimmee allows one accessory dwelling unit per lot in most residential zoning districts, but the principal home must be owner-occupied with a homestead exemption, and the ADU is…

Sheds and other accessory structures in Kissimmee must sit at least six feet from the rear property line, meet side-yard setbacks, and stay under half the size of the main house under…

Kissimmee only allows an accessory dwelling unit where the main house is owner-occupied and holds a valid homestead exemption, so an owner who doesn't live on the property can't add a…

Osceola County has no dedicated 'tiny home' category. A permanent tiny house is treated as a dwelling that must meet zoning density, setbacks and the Florida Building Code; RVs…

Converting a garage into living space in unincorporated Osceola County is treated as an accessory living unit or added habitable area: it needs a building permit, must meet the Florida…

Front-yard fences in Kissimmee top out at three feet (six for open decorative or retaining designs), side and rear fences at six feet, and none may block corner sight-visibility…

Kissimmee exempts retaining walls from its standard three-foot front-yard wall height cap, but every retaining wall still needs a building permit under the same fences-and-walls…

Kissimmee requires a building permit to erect any fence or wall anywhere in the city, per Land Development Code § 14-6-5.A. Height caps follow: six feet in side and rear yards, three…

Kissimmee limits fences to specific materials, aluminum, treated wood, vinyl, iron, chain link, concrete, brick or stone, and bans barbed wire and electric fencing everywhere except…

Osceola County's LDC makes the fence owner responsible for correctly locating all property lines before building. The county does not require you to share cost with a neighbor…

Renting a Kissimmee home for less than 30 days is banned in residential districts unless it sits in an SRPUD or MUPUD short-term-rental overlay approved through the PUD process, a…

Building a new short-term rental or time-share development in Kissimmee requires at least two acres and 12 units, direct arterial or collector access, a landscaped buffer from…

No on-site host is required, but Osceola County (like most Florida jurisdictions) expects a responsible party or 24-hour local contact reachable to handle complaints. Florida bars…

No. Osceola County cannot require a short-term rental to be the owner's primary residence. Florida's FS 509.032(7)(b) bars counties from prohibiting vacation rentals or restricting…

Florida lets counties regulate parking for vacation rentals as long as the rule applies uniformly to all homes. Osceola County requires off-street parking for licensed short-term…

Florida law bars Osceola County from capping how many nights a year a short-term or vacation rental can operate, or from banning them outright. Fla. Stat. § 509.032(7)(b) preempts any…

Every short-term rental in unincorporated Osceola County, house, condo or room booked for six months or less, owes a 6 percent tourist development tax on top of the rent. Osceola…

Kissimmee's noise ordinance expressly covers noise from pick-up and delivery trucks operating under a business's control, holding commercial loading and delivery activity to the same…

Kissimmee classifies heating and air conditioning units as "intermittent noise" and holds them to the same property-line decibel limits as any other equipment: no separate HVAC…

Kissimmee's noise ordinance defines "plainly audible" to specifically include a rhythmic bass reverberation you can feel or hear through walls: officers don't need to identify the…

Kissimmee treats power generators as "continuous noise," subject to the city's decibel limits by land use: except gas-powered equipment gets a daytime exemption from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Kissimmee allows shuttering or boarding windows and doors only once the National Weather Service issues an advisory, and requires removal within 7 days after the storm passes.

Osceola County Code § 19-8 lets the county remove disaster debris from private residential communities after a declared emergency when the board finds an immediate threat to health…

Kissimmee requires any adult bookstore, adult theater, or adult dancing establishment to hold a city adult entertainment license before opening, on top of a strict 500-foot buffer from…

Kissimmee bars vehicle repair of any kind, including bodywork, detailing, washing and interior work, as a home occupation in any residential district: Land Development Code §…

Kissimmee limits pawnbroker licenses to five citywide while the population stays under 100,000, adding one more per 20,000 residents of growth after that, and bars any pawnbroker from…

Kissimmee requires junk and secondhand dealers to file a licensing application before opening, and secondhand vehicle parts, scrap metal, rags, and similar used goods must be stored…

To join Kissimmee police's non-consent tow rotation list, wrecker operators must hold a city license, provide fenced storage, and pass a fingerprint and felony background check.

Osceola County bans self-service tobacco and e-cigarette displays anywhere in the unincorporated county: cigarettes, vape devices and liquid nicotine must stay behind vendor-assisted…

Operating a food truck in Kissimmee requires a city business tax receipt renewed every year and a county or state health department license for the vending operation, per Land…

Kissimmee confines mobile food vending to the B-3, HC and IB zoning districts, and only on parcels anchored by a retail store of at least 50,000 square feet, per Land Development Code…

Kissimmee limits itinerant food vending carts to B-3, HC and IB zones, capped at 10 by 20 feet, operating only 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., under Land Development Code § 14-6-8.

Kissimmee's Minimum Property Maintenance Code requires every dwelling unit offered for rent to have a working deadbolt lock, sound doors and windows, and a clean, safe interior, with…

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…

Kissimmee residents must set trash and recycling carts at the curb no earlier than 6 p.m. the night before pickup and by 7 a.m. on collection day, then pull carts back by 8 a.m. the…

Dumping junk, trash, or other waste anywhere in Kissimmee besides a licensed disposal site is unlawful, punishable by a base $100.00 fine plus escalating code-enforcement penalties…

Kissimmee requires bulky items like furniture and large tree limbs to sit at least four feet from containers, mailboxes, trees and parked vehicles so the collection truck can reach the…

Kissimmee requires commercial dumpsters to sit on a concrete pad inside a six-foot enclosure of brick, block, or similar material, with tighter rules within 50 feet of a lake or canal.

Kissimmee limits bagged or bundled yard waste set out beyond the city cart to 60 pounds per bag or bundle, with bundles also capped at four feet long.

Kissimmee residential service includes one recycling container collected once a week alongside trash, but City Code § 32-67(3) requires only approved recyclables placed loose, never…

Kissimmee runs residential trash, recycling and yard waste pickup once a week on a set day, and City Code § 32-67 dictates exactly when containers can go out: no earlier than 6:00 p.m…

Kissimmee's basic residential trash service, set out in City Code § 32-66(a)(1), gives every household one garbage container, one recycling container and one yard waste container, all…

Kissimmee requires a floodplain development permit for construction, filling, or grading in FEMA-mapped flood hazard areas, with new lowest floors set at least 18 inches above base…

Kissimmee requires fill in special flood hazard subdivisions to raise the lowest floor at least 18 inches above the 100-year base flood elevation, exceeding the state minimum.

Kissimmee requires an early land preparation or site improvement permit before any grading, tree removal, or vegetation clearing, with limited exemptions for small residential lots and…

Kissimmee prohibits illegal connections and discharges to its storm sewer system, and requires construction, commercial, and industrial sites to control runoff and file erosion-control…

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

Kissimmee bans medical marijuana treatment centers outright: no dispensing, cultivation, or processing facility may locate anywhere within city limits under this local opt-out…

Osceola County bars a medical marijuana treatment center from locating within 250 feet of any school or licensed daycare, or within five miles of another treatment center, measured…

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

Downtown Kissimmee is regulated by a form-based code, not conventional zoning. Chapter 14-5 sets building placement, frontage, fenestration, and material rules across transect zones to…

Kissimmee lets planned unit developments earn a density bonus in five-percent increments for meeting design, open-space, tree-preservation or affordable-housing criteria that exceed…

Kissimmee bans drinking, carrying or possessing an open container of liquor, beer or wine in any public or semi-public place in the city, plus a 1,000-foot buffer around package…

Kissimmee bans skateboarding and roller skating outright on streets and sidewalks inside the downtown business district, and elsewhere only when it creates a hazard to motorists or…

Kissimmee bars loitering "in or around any restroom or locker room" inside city parks, boat ramps or piers, under City Code § 28-50(15). The rule is narrow: it targets restroom-area…

Kissimmee bans urinating or defecating in any public place, anywhere open to public view, or on someone else's private property without the owner's consent: no restroom exception…

Osceola County lets deputies issue a $100 civil citation, instead of a criminal charge, for possessing 20 grams or less of cannabis or cannabis paraphernalia under Code § 14-11…

Osceola County Code § 18-4 makes it unlawful to stand in or enter any public road, including medians and interstate ramps, to display information, distribute goods, or solicit business…

Kissimmee bans powered bikes, mopeds, scooters and go-carts from park courts, fields, paths and boardwalks, but carves out Class 1 and Class 2 electric bicycles on wide bike trails and…

Kissimmee requires new streets to include a bicycle lane or off-street path when the segment sits within two miles of a public school, or on any collector or arterial road.

Osceola County Code §§ 18-130 through 18-134 let shared micro-mobility devices such as motorized scooters operate on county rights-of-way only where the Board of County Commissioners…

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…

Ground-floor window signs in Kissimmee can't cover more than a third of the window, must sit in the top or bottom third, and the glass must stay at least 66 percent see-through.

Kissimmee caps political signs at one per candidate or issue per property, bars them from public property and utility poles, and limits display to 90 days before a candidate election…

Kissimmee limits electronic message-center signs to one change every four seconds with no scrolling or animation, and restricts them to non-residential lots on arterial or collector…

Kissimmee limits garage sale signs to one per lot, no larger than two square feet, displayed for up to three days per sale, placed on-site where the sale is happening, and…

Kissimmee lets commercial-grade accent and string lighting on non-residential buildings flash and change color only during temporary holiday displays; year-round accent lighting must…

Kissimmee requires one canopy street tree every 50 linear feet of the right-of-way landscaping strip on new or redeveloped streets, tied to plat and site plan approval.

Kissimmee's city arborist may designate specimen or historic trees, typically 30 inches DBH or larger, for protection anywhere in the city, regardless of location on a lot.

Any tree with a trunk four inches or more in diameter at breast height is a 'protected tree' under Kissimmee's code, and cutting, trimming or removing it without a city permit is…

Closing a Kissimmee street for a block party requires Development Review Committee approval under the city's special-events rule, with barricades, a 12-hour cap per closure, and…

Kissimmee defines a sidewalk cafe as an outdoor dining area attached to a licensed restaurant, but no part of it may sit within the public right-of-way.

Kissimmee requires a police-chief-issued permit before any procession, parade, demonstration or rally can march or proceed along a city street, with permits capped at three consecutive…

Food vendors at a Kissimmee street fair or festival held on closed right-of-way must be pre-approved by the Development Review Committee, with proof of a state FDACS food permit…

Kissimmee bans holding a rally, protest, entertainment, exhibit, organized event or other mass group gathering in any city park, boat ramp or pier without a permit from the city, under…

Kissimmee's property maintenance code requires every structure be kept free of insects and rodents, and splits extermination duty between property owners and occupants depending on…

Kissimmee requires outdoor fixtures to carry directional shields, reflectors, or lenses that aim and limit the light angle, and caps mounting height at 30 feet in parking lots.

Kissimmee caps site lighting at 0.5 footcandles at a residential property line and 1.0 footcandle elsewhere, and requires fixtures to conform to the Dark-Sky Association/IES Model…

Kissimmee requires a city manager permit before anyone builds, excavates, or installs facilities in a public right-of-way, conditioned on an application, site restoration, fees, a bond…

Kissimmee City Code holds two different people responsible for a broken public sidewalk. Whoever caused the damage must repair it under Section 38-52, and any abutting property owner…

A Kissimmee production permit application must spell out the necessity for closing any public street or sidewalk and for how long, one of thirteen required disclosures under the city's…

Anyone shooting a commercial motion picture, TV, or video production in Kissimmee involving city property, equipment, tents, or pyrotechnics must get a production permit from the city…

Florida's state-adopted building code sets which projects need a permit; in Kissimmee, starting work before obtaining one draws an automatic $100 fine plus a doubled permit fee.

Kissimmee charges a set fee schedule for every plumbing permit, starting at a $19 minimum issuance fee and running up per fixture, gas outlet, and irrigation head. Starting work before…

Kissimmee's Land Development Code sets site-design rules for child care facilities: dedicated pick-up/drop-off areas kept out of the public right-of-way, separated parking, and clear…

Kissimmee requires a paid city permit for electrical work under the state building code, and every occupied building's wiring must meet the Florida Building Code and NFPA 70, the…

Kissimmee bars door-to-door solicitors from ignoring a posted "no solicitors" sign, returning after being told to leave, and calling before 9 a.m., after 9 p.m., or any time on Sundays.

Kissimmee makes it unlawful to peddle or solicit door-to-door anywhere in the city without a current business tax receipt in hand. Getting one means a police background check…

Kissimmee limits building height by zoning district through Land Development Code Table 4-3 and Table 4-5, measuring most residential buildings in stories rather than feet. AC and RE…

Kissimmee caps how much of a lot can be covered by buildings and pavement through the impervious surface maximums in Land Development Code Table 4-3 and Table 4-5. Most single-family…

Kissimmee's Land Development Code sets minimum front, side, rear and street-side yard setbacks by zoning district in Table 4-3, ranging from 10 feet in RB-1/RB-2 up to 35 feet in AC…

Kissimmee's Agriculture and Conservation (AC) zoning district allows farming, open-space preservation and large-lot single-family estate homes on qualifying land: a zoning…

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…

Kissimmee's Land Development Code lets the city designate individual properties as historic landmarks, protecting structures at least 50 years old with historical merit through…

Kissimmee limits residential garage and yard sales to twice a year, three days per sale, measured against a January 1 to December 31 calendar year, under Land Development Code §…

Kissimmee limits vegetation on any lot, vacant or occupied, to 12 inches in height and treats overgrown weeds, debris, or pest-harboring conditions as a public nuisance.

Kissimmee's designated official can placard and order secured a vacant, vandalized, or unfit structure that isn't in danger of collapse, then bill the owner if they don't secure it…

Kissimmee city parks are open daily during hours posted at each park, and the city manager can close any park or section of one at any time for public safety.

Florida Statutes 877.20 through 877.25, the Juvenile Curfew Act, set a uniform statewide framework allowing counties to impose curfews on minors under 16 with specific hours…

Kissimmee bans camping or sleeping on any city-owned property or public right-of-way, including tents, bedding, or unsheltered lodging, with penalties up to a $500 fine, imprisonment…

Kissimmee's city manager decides how a business, profession, or occupation is classified for its annual local business tax receipt; disputed classifications can be appealed to the city…

Backyard gas and charcoal grilling is allowed in Osceola County, and contained-grill cooking is even permitted during a burn ban. Under the Florida Fire Prevention Code, charcoal or…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Florida 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…

Florida statute 163.04 prohibits any ordinance, deed restriction, or covenant from preventing installation of solar collectors. Local building permits are required but cannot…

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…