Tamarac, FL Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Tamarac folds street fair and festival vending into its business tax code rather than a stand-alone events ordinance. Article VI of Chapter 12, Circuses, Carnivals and Parades, requires anyone seeking a local business tax receipt for a circus, carnival, show or outdoor exhibition to file a special events application with the supervisor of local business tax receipts under Section 12-116. That application has to include a sworn affidavit that the landowner has consented to the event, a bond or other security to guarantee the site is cleaned of rubbish and debris afterward, and written approval from the building department, the fire department and every other city department that reviews special events permits.

Section 12-117 then bars the promoter from erecting a single tent, booth or other installation in a permitted area until the special events permit is approved and both the permit application fee and the local business tax receipt are paid in full; no equipment can even be brought onto the site before that payment clears. Because the permit runs through the business tax office rather than a parks or events department, a vendor or organizer who wants to sell food, merchandise or tickets at a street fair inside city limits is folded into the same review used for circuses and carnivals, meaning building and fire sign-off happens before any structure goes up rather than the day of the event.

The city commission can also waive the underlying local business tax for a nonprofit-sponsored circus, carnival or similar amusement event under Section 12-38(c), which conditions that waiver on the applicant producing an executed contract with the amusement organization showing at least fifty percent of net profits go to the applicant, but the special events application, cleanup bond and departmental approvals in Sections 12-116 and 12-117 still apply regardless of that waiver.