Pompano Beach, FL Mobility & Curb Rules: Shared E-Scooter Rules (2026)

31, adopted by Ord. 2022-32 and passed March 8, 2022, does not set operating hours, parking corrals, or no-ride zones for shared scooters the way many Florida cities do; instead it bans the rental business model itself. 21(A) of the city's general offenses chapter, tying the rental ban to the same device definition used to regulate scooter operation on streets and sidewalks elsewhere in the Code. Subsection (B) is the operative prohibition: no person shall rent or make available for rent, or permit another to rent or make available for rent, a motorized scooter within the city.

The word choice, 'or permit another to rent,' reaches beyond a single scooter company to anyone facilitating the rental, including a landlord or business host that allows a scooter-share kiosk on its property. 99, while that individual penalty does not preclude the city from separately pursuing all available civil remedies against the business or corporate entity operating the rental scheme. That two-track structure signals the ordinance was written with dockless scooter-share operators, not casual peer-to-peer renters, as its real target, letting the city pursue injunctive or monetary civil relief against a company that drops scooters citywide without going through the individual-citation process rider by rider.