Lee County cannot cap how many nights or how often a vacation rental operates. FS 509.032(7)(b) expressly bars local ordinances adopted after June 1, 2011 from regulating the duration or frequency of vacation rentals, so there is no minimum-stay or annual-night limit in the unincorporated county.
The Florida preemption statute is explicit that a local law, ordinance, or regulation may not regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals unless it was adopted on or before June 1, 2011. Lee County has no grandfathered pre-2011 frequency ordinance covering the unincorporated area, so there is no annual night cap, no minimum-night requirement, and no limit on how many separate bookings a rental may take per year. A vacation rental in unincorporated Lee County may be rented as often as the market allows. The only duration line that matters is the tax boundary: stays of six months or less are transient and subject to the 5% Tourist Development Tax and state transient taxes. Incorporated cities may
There is no night-cap violation because no such county limit exists; the operative constraints are the state license and the transient-tax rules for stays of six months or less.
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