Polk County does not require a host or manager to be on-site during stays. Such a rule would regulate how vacation rentals operate, which Florida preempts to the state under FS 509.032(7).
A mandatory host- or manager-on-premises rule is a vacation-rental operating standard, and FS 509.032(7)(a) preempts those to the state while (7)(b) bars local frequency/duration limits adopted after June 1, 2011. Polk County imposes no such requirement. Florida law does require licensed vacation rentals to designate a responsible party/agent reachable for complaints, but that is a state DBPR obligation, not an on-site-presence mandate the county enforces.
No county citation exists for absent hosts; failure to maintain a required state responsible-party contact is a DBPR licensing matter.
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