Escambia County and Pensacola cannot set minimum-night stays, annual night caps, or limits on how often a home is rented. Florida law expressly bars local rules on rental duration or frequency.
FS 509.032(7)(b) states that a local law may not regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals. So Escambia County cannot impose a minimum-night stay, a maximum number of rental nights per year, or a turnover cap through any rule adopted after June 1, 2011—one reason weekend beach rentals are common on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key. The only nightly-related limits that actually bind are private HOA or condo minimum-stay covenants, which are enforced by the association rather than the county.
The county imposes no night-cap penalties because such limits are preempted; only private HOA or condo minimum-stay covenants carry enforcement.
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Escambia County's Nuisance Abatement Ordinance (Code ch. 42, art. VI) treats overgrown weeds, grass, and shrubbery as a nuisance in the unincorporated county...
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