Palm Coast, FL Rental Property Rules: Rental Registration (2026)

Section 17-39 requires every owner of residential rental property to register within 60 days of the article's effective date, giving the City the owner's name, address, phone number, and the address of every rental unit being leased. Absentee landlords, defined in Section 17-38(c) as owners who don't live within Flagler County or a county abutting it, must also include a local representative designation under Section 17-40, while that designation stays optional for landlords who live locally. Owners must notify the City of any address or phone number change within 30 days, and registration renews annually alongside payment of the City's occupational license tax, starting in Fiscal Year 2005-2006.

The City Council sets the per-unit registration fee, and an absentee landlord's local representative also pays a separately set fee. Section 17-38(a) exempts hotels, motels, rooming houses, resort dwellings, bed and breakfast inns, manufactured housing developments, apartment units, and condominium units from the registration duty, so long as those uses have on-site property management and maintenance, as well as owner-occupied duplexes where the owner lives in the attached unit. Registered rentals also face periodic inspections under Section 17-41: an external inspection at least once every two years to keep the registration current, starting in Fiscal Year 2006-2007, and an internal inspection at least once every four years starting in Fiscal Year 2008-2009, plus a noncompliance re-inspection fee if a violation isn't fixed in time.