Plantation, FL Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

94. That preemption strips the city of authority to set its own technical, pricing, or siting standards for EV charging equipment beyond what state law allows. The section carves out one local requirement that survives preemption: an operator of an electric vehicle charging station must apply for a Local Business Tax Receipt in compliance with City Code Chapter 14, the same tax receipt any commercial enterprise in Plantation needs to operate. The code narrows that requirement with a specific carve-out of its own: charging stations restricted to private use by employees, provided the charging is offered at no cost to the employee, do not need a Local Business Tax Receipt.

In practice, this means a workplace that installs free chargers exclusively for its own staff can skip the city's business tax registration, while any station open to the public, to customers, tenants, or anyone charged a fee, must register with the city like any other commercial operation even though the underlying technical regulation of the charger itself is a state, not a city, matter.