Business Licensing & Operations in Florida (2026)

Leon County bans nude and semi-nude entertainment in any commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold…

Okaloosa County bars new adult entertainment establishments within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, parks or other…

Osceola County confines adult bookstores, theaters and dancing establishments to the industrial general zoning district…

St. Lucie County bans nudity, simulated sex acts and straddle dances inside any bar, restaurant or club where alcohol…

Alachua County confines sexually oriented businesses, cabarets, theaters, sex shops, and media stores, to the BH, BA…

Bay County requires every employee of a sexually oriented business, bookstores, adult clubs, adult theaters and massage…

Boca Raton confines every adult entertainment establishment to the M-3 and W-1 zoning districts and then keeps them 300…

Boynton Beach regulates adult entertainment establishments under Sec. 13-59 and 13-60, layering operational rules, a…

Brevard County requires adult entertainment establishments to be licensed and keeps them at least 1,500 feet from…

Broward requires a county license for adult entertainment businesses in unincorporated areas and bars them within 1,000…

Cape Coral confines sexually oriented businesses to the Industrial (I-1) and Thoroughfare Commercial (C-3) zoning…

Any adult bookstore, adult theater, or adult dancing establishment in unincorporated Charlotte County needs a sexually…

Unincorporated Citrus County requires an adult entertainment license from the county administrator before anyone may…

Clay County requires a license before anyone can operate, manage, or work at an adult entertainment establishment or…

Cocoa confines adult entertainment establishments to the M-I Light Industrial and Warehouse zoning district and bars…

Collier County requires a permit before opening a sexually-oriented business and keeps it 500 feet from any…

Coral Gables confines adult bookstores, adult theaters, and massage salons to the Design District and bars them within…

Dade City confines sexually oriented businesses to CG, CBD and CH zones abutting State Road 52, U.S. 98 Bypass or U.S…

The Town of Davie requires a sexually oriented business license under Section 13-69 and confines these uses to the B-3…

Daytona Beach confines adult bookstores and adult theaters to its BA business district and bars them outright from…

Deltona licenses adult bookstores, theaters, escort services, and physical contact parlors, confining them to…

Doral confines adult bookstores, theaters, entertainment clubs and video stores to the industrial district and, under…

Escambia County confines adult entertainment establishments to C-2 zoned districts under Land Development Code section…

Unincorporated Flagler County confines adult entertainment establishments and sexually oriented businesses to the…

Fort Lauderdale does not license adult entertainment establishments, but it dictates how they operate: any place where…

Fort Myers requires an occupational license for adult bookstores, theaters, and performance establishments, and bans…

Franklin County confines adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters and adult retail stores to the C-2 zoning…

Gainesville won't let a sexually oriented business open within 1,000 feet of another sexually oriented business, a…

Gulfport requires a city adult use permit before any adult arcade, bookstore, theater, special cabaret or physical…

Hialeah confines adult bookstores, video stores, motion picture theaters, relaxation spas, body-painting studios…

Highlands County requires a sexually oriented business license from the county administrator before any adult arcade…

Hillsborough County bars new sexually oriented businesses within 2,000 feet of residential zoning, churches, schools…

Hollywood requires a separate Adult Entertainment License for each activity type an establishment offers, issued by the…

Sexually oriented businesses in Homestead can't open within 1,000 feet of a church, library, school, the boundary of…

Jacksonville requires a Sheriff's Office license for every adult bookstore, theater, or entertainment establishment and…

Jupiter enforces Palm Beach County's adult entertainment licensing code and layers on its own 750-foot spacing…

Kissimmee requires any adult bookstore, adult theater, or adult dancing establishment to hold a city adult…

Adult entertainment businesses in unincorporated Lake County need a license from the county manager under Sec. 3-28 and…

Largo requires an adult use license from the community development department for adult bookstores, theaters…

Unincorporated Lee County keeps sexually oriented businesses 1,000 feet from homes, schools, churches and similar uses…

Manatee County requires every sexually oriented business and each of its employees to hold a county license under…

LDR Section 3.53 bars an adult business from opening within 1,000 feet of any residential zoning district, another…

Melbourne requires a city license before anyone can operate or work at a sexually oriented business or adult…

Miami 21 confines adult entertainment establishments to the D2 Industrial transect zone and requires 1,000 feet of…

Miami Beach bans total nudity and sexual conduct at any alcoholic beverage establishment citywide and confines partial…

Miami-Dade County confines adult bookstores, theaters, entertainment clubs and video stores to the IU-1 industrial zone…

Miramar confines adult entertainment establishments to the Planned Industrial Development (PID) district and requires a…

Nassau County requires anyone operating or working at a sexually oriented business, adult bookstores, cabarets, motels…

New Port Richey requires an annual $1,000 adult use license plus a locational permit, and confines sexually oriented…

North Port requires a $2,000 annual adult use permit and confines adult businesses to the CG-S zoning district, 1,000…

Before an adult entertainment establishment can operate in unincorporated Orange County it needs a license granted by…

Orlando requires every adult bookstore, dancing establishment, motion picture theater, commercial physical contact…

Adult entertainment establishments and sexually-oriented businesses in Palm Bay need a city license and cannot locate…

Unincorporated Palm Beach County requires an Adult Entertainment license before any club, video store, or theater can…

Palm Coast confines adult entertainment establishments and sexually oriented businesses to the industrial zoning…

Pembroke Pines bars adult entertainment establishments within 500 feet of any residentially zoned district and…

Unincorporated Pinellas requires a license and permit for every adult use establishment and bars locating one within…

Plantation confines adult entertainment and sexually oriented businesses to the I-LP zoning district as a conditional…

Polk County requires every adult bookstore, theater, cabaret, or modeling studio to hold an adult use license before…

Pompano Beach confines sexually oriented businesses to a single zoning category and requires a 1,000-foot separation…

Port Orange requires a separate adult entertainment business tax receipt before an adult bookstore, adult theater or…

Adult entertainment establishments may open in Port St. Lucie only within the IN Industrial District, and only after…

A sexually oriented business (an adult use establishment under Sarasota Zoning Code Article IV, Division 4) cannot open…

Operating an adult bookstore, cabaret, motel, theater, model studio, sexual device shop, or encounter center in…

Satellite Beach requires a city license before an adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater, or adult dancing…

Seminole County requires anyone operating an adult bookstore, adult theater, adult motel, adult performance…

St. Johns County allows adult bookstores, theaters, cabarets and similar adult uses only as a Special Use under Land…

St. Petersburg requires a City-issued adult use license before operating any adult cabaret, arcade, theater, bookstore…

Sumter County Code § 13-572 confines sexually oriented businesses to zoning districts where Table 13-417A lists them as…

Tampa's zoning code keeps adult uses 500 feet from any residential or office district and 1,000 feet from each other…

Titusville requires any adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater, adult dancing establishment, or adult…

Volusia County confines adult bookstores and adult theatres to the I-1 industrial zoning classification and imposes…

West Palm Beach's zoning code keeps adult entertainment establishments at least 750 feet from any residentially zoned…

Winter Haven requires an adult entertainment permit before any sexually oriented business, adult bookstore, adult…

Chapter 117 of the Pembroke Pines code bans specified sexual contact inside any massage parlor and makes owners and…

Unincorporated Brevard requires a county license before any massage or leisure spa business opens, with an annual $250…

Coral Gables zoning confines massage establishments to an accessory use inside a beauty salon, medical clinic, or…

Doral bars anyone from offering massage for compensation without a state license under F.S. ch. 480, a city business…

Sec. 10-656(a) requires a separate county permit for every bathhouse or massage establishment location and for every…

Massage and bath parlors may operate only in Homestead's B-3 general commercial district, and only after the city…

Manatee County requires every massage establishment and therapist to hold a state Chapter 480 license on-site, keep…

Miami massage establishments need a $99 Business Tax Receipt, a licensed masseur or masseuse on duty at all times, and…

Orlando requires a massage therapist to hold a City Business Tax Receipt, and Section 36.35(163) won't let the City…

Plantation requires a City local business tax receipt for every massage establishment owner and every massage therapist…

Operating a massage parlor in Port Orange requires an occupational license from the city, background and employment…

A City of Sarasota business offering massage or body rubs outside licensed massage therapy needs a $972 adult-use…

Tampa regulates massage-style rub establishments under its 'bathhouse' permit division: a separate PDD permit is…

Alachua County allows a massage therapist or massage establishment as a limited use in the AP, BP, BR, BR-1, BH, BA…

Massage therapists in Boynton Beach must hold a Business Tax Receipt under SIC classification 7298, priced at $107.66 a…

Broward requires every massage establishment to keep a state-licensed masseur or masseuse on duty full-time whenever…

Cape Coral taxes a massage establishment at $33.00 a year and a self-employed massage therapist at $55.00, with the…

Deerfield Beach requires every massage establishment and every licensed massage therapist to hold a city local business…

Fort Lauderdale requires a business tax receipt for every massage establishment: $73.50 per year for the salon itself…

Every massage establishment in Hollywood must hold a Certificate of Use under § 3.23(F) and post it, along with each…

Anyone giving massages for pay in Jacksonville must hold a Florida massage therapist license, and Ordinance Code…

Every massage therapist working within Lakeland's city limits must buy an annual local business tax receipt under City…

Miami-Dade County requires massage establishments to hold a Local Business Tax Receipt, taxed at $30 plus $3 per…

Anyone opening a massage establishment in Pompano Beach must first obtain a city business tax receipt. The BTR schedule…

A massage establishment in Port St. Lucie needs the standard local business tax receipt under Code Sec. 111.45 Category…

Massage parlors and therapists in Safety Harbor must hold a local business tax receipt in a dedicated fee category…

Sumter County Code § 13-564 requires every massage establishment to employ or contract a therapist licensed by…

West Palm Beach requires massage businesses to hold both a business tax receipt and a certificate of use before…

Largo does not license massage establishments itself; the state's Department of Business and Professional Regulation…

Lee County does not license massage establishments itself: the state's Department of Business and Professional…

Volusia County has no standalone massage-establishment license; the state's Board of Massage Therapy licenses…

Fort Myers Code § 10-33 says the city does not regulate massage establishments; that authority belongs to Florida's…

Highlands County does not run its own massage establishment license. Code § 4-109 states the Board of County…

Okaloosa County does not license or zone massage establishments under its own code. Section 12-159 states the board's…

Palm Beach County doesn't license massage establishments itself: Code § 17-149 defers entirely to the state Board of…

Unincorporated Pinellas County does not license or regulate massage establishments locally. The county code defers…

Orlando's business tax code makes it unlawful for anyone but a person licensed to practice medicine or dentistry, or…

Tattoo parlors in Clearwater pay a $127.50 city business tax receipt under Appendix A section 100.000, and the…

Tattoo parlors and body piercing shops are confined to the Design District and must sit at least 1,000 feet from homes…

Davie confines tattoo establishments to the B-3 zoning district under a special permit, requires a permanent…

In unincorporated Flagler County, Florida, the Land Development Code names tattoo parlors and body piercing…

Fort Myers requires tattoo parlors to hold a $50 annual local business tax receipt, conditioned on approval from the…

Gulfport's zoning code does not license tattoo or body piercing shops directly, but it names them outright as a…

Hollywood classifies tattoo and body piercing establishments as adult businesses under City Code Article VI. Shops may…

Pembroke Pines treats standalone tattoo parlors as a designated use with strict distance buffers. Section 155.532 bars…

Tallahassee zones tattoo parlors out of two specific districts rather than banning them citywide. The Land Development…

Bay County requires anyone selling and applying temporary tattoos in the unincorporated area to post a specific…

Broward County's zoning code permits tattoo shops only in B-4 Commercial Redevelopment Overlay and C-1 Commercial…

Cape Coral has no standalone tax classification for tattooing: the business tax schedule directs tattoo services to be…

Daytona Beach requires notarized parental consent to pierce anyone under 18 and a local business tax receipt to pierce…

Deltona's zoning code confines tattoo shops to commercial and industrial land: permitted outright in the C-2, C-3, and…

Doral permits tattoo studios by right in its office, neighborhood commercial and corridor commercial districts, and as…

Fort Lauderdale has no stand-alone tattoo permit chapter; instead, Sec. 15-57 taxes a tattoo parlor as a Services…

Tattoo parlors pay a $175 annual business tax under classification 812199T and must hold a biomedical waste permit from…

Tattoo and permanent makeup businesses in Lakeland must hold a local business tax receipt under City Code § 18-67(244)…

It's illegal to tattoo a minor anywhere in Miami-Dade County unless a parent or guardian gives written consent first: a…

Anyone operating a tattoo parlor in Miramar must hold a city business tax receipt before opening, registering annually…

Tattoo parlors are a permitted use in Palm Bay's Neighborhood Commercial, Community Commercial and General Commercial…

Temporary tattoo and body piercing establishments in Palm Beach County must pass a county Health Department plan review…

Pompano Beach requires a Business Tax Receipt to run a tattoo parlor, body piercing studio, or permanent makeup…

Port Orange regulates tattoo and body art shops by adopting the Volusia County Health Department's 1998 Body Art Code…

Every tattoo artist and tattoo establishment operating in Port St. Lucie must hold a City business tax receipt before…

St. Petersburg treats tattoo parlors and body piercing studios as a distinct land use under the Chapter 16 zoning…

Volusia County's only tattoo-specific text sits inside its itinerant merchant licensing article: § 26-54(h) requires…

Escambia County does not run its own tattoo-shop permitting program: Florida's Department of Health licenses body art…

Okaloosa County Code § 15-3 does not license tattoo shops; it requires anyone who sells or applies a temporary…

Florida Statute 569.315 expressly preempts the regulation of the marketing, sale, and delivery of nicotine products and…

Coral Gables bars vape shops and vape-product retailers from operating within 500 feet of any school, with no variances…

Daytona Beach regulates vapor bars, hookah lounges and cigar lounges as 'smoking lounges' under City Code section…

Doral bans new tobacco, vape, smoking-device, consumable hemp and CBD retailers from locating within 2,500 feet of any…

Fort Lauderdale bars tobacco and vape retailers from selling to anyone under 21, requires ID checks and a posted…

Unincorporated Franklin County retailers cannot display tobacco products on open, self-service shelving. The…

Hollywood's code defines a smoke shop to include vape and e-cigarette retailers, and § 3.23(J) keeps every smoke shop…

Miami smoke shops must sit at least one mile from any other smoke shop or hemp retailer and 1,000 feet from schools…

Miami Beach retailers selling nicotine vaporizers or liquid nicotine must card buyers, avoid self-service displays…

Clay County does not issue its own tobacco retail license; state law under Chapter 569, Florida Statutes handles that…

Collier County bans self-service tobacco displays outside a restricted access area under Code Sec. 26-2. Cigarettes…

Davie bans selling or giving electronic vaporizers to anyone under 18, requires an ID check for buyers who look under…

Deerfield Beach does not license vape or nicotine-vaporizer retailers separately, but Section 46-39 makes it unlawful…

Unincorporated Flagler County does not issue its own tobacco retail license; that comes from the state under Fla. Stat…

Gainesville bans self-service tobacco displays under Code § 14.5-17: retailers cannot sell or display tobacco products…

Every Hialeah smoke shop, defined to include retail tobacco, nicotine and vape dealers, must hold a state…

Businesses in Hillsborough County that sell vapor-generating devices or vapor products must check government-issued ID…

Manatee County bars retailers from selling tobacco through open, self-service displays: under Code Sec. 2-19-82…

Miami-Dade County bans self-service display of e-cigarettes and other nicotine dispensing devices at retail, requiring…

Tobacco retailers operate by right across Miramar's commercial zoning districts with no special Land Development Code…

Nassau County bars retailers from selling e-cigarettes or liquid nicotine to anyone under 18 and from stocking them in…

New Port Richey requires smoke shops to keep smoking devices in a staff-only display area and post an entrance warning…

Osceola County bans self-service tobacco and e-cigarette displays anywhere in the unincorporated county: cigarettes…

Unincorporated Pasco County retailers cannot let customers grab tobacco products off open shelves. Under the county's…

Pembroke Pines does not issue its own vape or e-cigarette retail license: § 155.512 says regulating the marketing…

Plantation allows retail tobacco and tobacco-accessories stores, plus cigar bars, only where the underlying zoning…

Polk County bars retailers from selling tobacco products through open, self-service displays or vending machines unless…

Pompano Beach bans selling or furnishing nicotine vaporizers or liquid nicotine to anyone under 18 and bans…

Port St. Lucie bans selling e-cigarettes or liquid nicotine to anyone under 18 and forbids self-service displays of…

St. Petersburg City Code § 20-125 bans self-service merchandising of e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine, requires…

Any tobacco shop, vape store or tobacco-products retailer operating in West Palm Beach must hold a city local business…

Lake County does not issue its own tobacco retailer license; state law under Chapter 569, Florida Statutes, covers…

Boca Raton treats secondhand goods dealers as 'consignment shops' under Code of Ordinances § 8-58 and requires a…

Cape Coral requires anyone buying old, used, or secondhand gold, silver, or platinum to keep a police-approved register…

Charlotte County regulates junk and scrap dealers under its secondary metals recycler ordinance. Before buying any used…

Secondhand dealers buying, consigning or trading goods containing precious metals in unincorporated Citrus County must…

Coral Gables requires secondhand dealers in jewelry, precious metals, and coins, including pawnshops, to obtain a…

Broward County's Town of Davie requires every secondhand dealer, including pawnbrokers, to hold a valid license, log…

Recovered materials dealers operating in Deerfield Beach must register with the city at least 30 days before starting…

Secondhand and junk dealers in Deltona must show their state registration and obtain an annual city occupational…

Doral confines secondhand-goods retailers and pawnshops to existing shopping or office plazas inside the Industrial…

Fort Myers requires anyone buying, pawning, consigning, or dealing in secondhand goods to hold a city license, post a…

Gainesville requires anyone buying, consigning or pawning secondhand goods to hold a written permit from the police…

Hialeah caps secondhand goods dealer licenses at one per 4,500 residents citywide, requires a $100 annual license with…

Anyone buying, selling, bartering, or pawning secondhand goods in Hollywood needs an annual local business tax receipt…

Homestead bars anyone from operating as a secondhand dealer, including pawnbrokers and junk dealers, without first…

Junk dealers, junk gatherers, and secondhand dealers in Jacksonville must hold a Sheriff-issued permit before doing…

Lakeland requires every junk dealer and secondhand dealer, defined in City Code § 82-1, to obtain a license from the…

Miami Beach requires secondhand and junk dealers to register with the Florida Department of Revenue instead of…

Palm Bay secondhand dealers must file daily itemized reports with the Chief of Police on every item purchased, traded…

Palm Beach County requires a sheriff's-office permit before anyone buys, consigns, or pawns secondhand goods, with a…

Secondhand dealers in unincorporated Sarasota County must register each location with the Florida Department of Revenue…

St. Lucie County secondhand and junk dealers must hold a county business tax receipt, hold acquired goods 30 days…

West Palm Beach requires every secondhand goods dealer, consignment shop, or precious-metals buyer to hold a local…

Alachua County requires anyone buying, selling or dealing in secondhand jewelry, precious metals, coins or similar…

Boynton Beach requires secondhand and junk dealers to hold a Business Tax Receipt classified as a Used Merchandise…

Pawnbrokers, precious metals dealers, and secondhand dealers in unincorporated Brevard County operate under Florida…

Broward County adopts Florida's secondhand dealer law countywide and adds stricter local rules: a 30-working-day resale…

Selling antiques or used merchandise in Clearwater requires a $69.80 city business tax receipt under Appendix A section…

Collier County adopts Florida's secondhand-dealer law and tightens it: a dealer must hold any purchased item for 30…

Daytona Beach requires secondhand dealers, precious metals dealers, pawnbrokers and junk dealers to pay an annual…

Fort Lauderdale requires anyone buying, selling or trading secondhand goods, such as jewelry, electronics, tools or…

Secondhand stores in Gulfport need a city occupational license before opening, priced by what they sell: $60.00 a year…

In unincorporated Highlands County, anyone displaying used or secondhand merchandise outdoors, other than running motor…

Secondhand dealers, pawn-style flea market merchants, and precious-metals buyers in unincorporated Hillsborough County…

Kissimmee requires junk and secondhand dealers to file a licensing application before opening, and secondhand vehicle…

Leon County requires anyone buying or selling secondhand precious metals or copper in the unincorporated area to keep a…

Manatee County requires secondhand dealers buying regulated goods, jewelry, electronics, and household appliances, to…

Dealers who buy, sell or exchange secondhand or antique jewelry, watches, gold, silver or other precious metals in…

Miami requires a $320 Business Tax Receipt for secondhand dealers plus a separate $250 yearly police inspection fee and…

Junk dealers and scrap metal processors must pay a county business tax, keep detailed purchase records, and complete…

Anyone in unincorporated Nassau County who buys or sells old, used or secondhand gold, silver or platinum items must…

Orange County requires anyone operating a junkyard or buying and selling scrap metal, wrecked cars or other used and…

Osceola County requires every secondhand, antique and jewelry dealer to log each item bought or taken on consignment…

Plantation defines a secondhand dealer under Code of Ordinances Sec. 14-91 as anyone buying and selling used tangible…

Anyone buying or selling old, used or secondhand gold, silver or platinum in Polk County must log every transaction in…

Pompano Beach expands who counts as a secondhand dealer and layers extra recordkeeping onto Florida's Secondhand…

Port Orange requires every secondhand dealer, pawnbroker and junk dealer to hold an annual business tax receipt and to…

Secondhand dealers in Port St. Lucie need the same city business tax receipt pawnbrokers do, but Chapter 116 layers on…

Seminole County requires every secondhand precious metals dealer, pawn shop, jeweler or itinerant buyer of gold, silver…

St. Petersburg taxes secondhand merchants and junk dealers as separate business classifications under the Chapter 17…

Tampa classifies secondhand dealers as a 'regulated business' under Chapter 6, so operating one without a current city…

Anyone buying precious metals such as gold, silver, or platinum from private sellers in Titusville must keep a purchase…

Volusia County's secondhand-goods chapter regulates secondary metals recyclers more tightly than state law, capping…

Pawnbrokers in Tampa must hold a Florida Pawnbroker License under FS Chapter 539, charge no more than 25 percent…

Operating a pawn shop in Clearwater requires a city business tax receipt costing $420.70 under Appendix A section…

Every pawnbroker operating in unincorporated Collier County must hold a $100.00 local business tax receipt for each…

Coral Gables regulates pawnshops as secondhand dealers, requiring a police department permit before buying or trading…

Pawnbrokers in Deltona must hold a valid Florida state pawnbroker license before opening, with a separate license…

Doral confines pawnshops to the Industrial Commercial (IC) zoning district inside existing shopping or office plazas…

Anyone pawning or reselling gold, silver or platinum in Hialeah must hold a $100 precious metal dealer license from the…

Homestead licenses pawnbrokers as secondhand dealers under Article X of Chapter 16. Sec. 16-221 folds pawnbrokers into…

Pawnbrokers in Jacksonville need a Sheriff-issued permit, annual renewal, and detailed transaction records subject to…

Kissimmee limits pawnbroker licenses to five citywide while the population stays under 100,000, adding one more per…

Every pawnbroker doing business in Lakeland must file a sworn license application with the chief code enforcement…

Miami Beach requires every pawnshop to hold a state pawnbroker license before the city will issue a business tax…

Miramar confines pawnshops to conditional use approval in the B3 commercial district and bars them from operating…

New Port Richey zones pawn shops as a restricted personal service use, confined to the C-2 and Highway Commercial…

Okaloosa County's Pawnbroker and Secondhand Dealers Ordinance requires every pawnshop to keep a full transaction…

Palm Beach County requires anyone operating a pawnshop or buying/pawning secondhand goods to get a $350 sheriff's…

Pasco County pawnbrokers must hold a county occupational license and pay a $300 annual tax under section 102-97 of the…

Pembroke Pines does not run its own pawnbroker licensing scheme; instead Section 155.521 controls pawn shops through…

St. Lucie County pawnbrokers must hold a county business tax receipt and file every pawn transaction electronically…

Winter Haven requires pawnbrokers, junk dealers and secondhand dealers to hold a police-vetted permit, keep a daily…

Pawnbrokers in Boynton Beach must hold a Business Tax Receipt under SIC classification 5933, priced at $723.51 a year…

Brevard County requires pawnbrokers to hold a business tax receipt, but won't issue one until the applicant proves…

Broward County requires every pawnbroker to hold a $150 annual business tax receipt for each place of business before…

Cape Coral charges a pawnbroker a $110.00 annual local business tax, well above the $33-$55 charged for most…

The Town of Davie, Broward County, confines new pawnshops to freestanding buildings set at least 2,500 feet from any…

Daytona Beach regulates pawnbrokers as a category of secondhand dealer and caps title loan fees at 22 percent per…

Escambia County requires anyone operating a pawnshop in the unincorporated county to hold a local Business Tax Receipt…

Fort Lauderdale treats pawnbrokers as a category of secondhand dealer and makes them hold pawned gold, silver…

Fort Myers requires anyone operating as a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, junk dealer or precious metals dealer to hold…

Anyone lending money in Gulfport against pledged personal property must hold a city occupational license as a…

Every pawnbroker in unincorporated Hillsborough County must hold a business tax receipt from the County Tax Collector…

Martin County pawnbrokers must keep a complete transaction record open to police inspection and file monthly reports…

Miami pawn shops and secondhand dealers need a business tax receipt plus a yearly $250 police pawn shop detail…

Pawnbrokers countywide must hold a $300 local business tax receipt, keep a full transaction ledger, and report monthly…

Every pawnbroker operating in unincorporated Orange County must hold a local business tax receipt under Section 25-101…

Osceola County pawnbrokers must issue a loan receipt disclosing the interest rate, hold pledged property unaltered for…

Pinellas County pawnbrokers must hold every item they buy or take in pledge for 15 calendar days, log each transaction…

Plantation pawnbrokers must hold pawned or purchased items at least five days before resale under Code of Ordinances…

Pompano Beach adds its own restrictions on top of Florida's Pawnbroking Act for every pawnshop in the city. Code of…

Port St. Lucie requires every pawnbroker to obtain a city business tax receipt under Code of Ordinances § 116.04 before…

Pawnbrokers in Safety Harbor must hold a local business tax receipt, listed as its own fee category on the city's…

A pawnbroker doing business inside the City of Sarasota must hold a local business tax receipt in the "Pawn brokers"…

St. Petersburg classifies pawnbroking as its own taxed business category under City Code § 17-135, item (104): 'Lending…

Charlotte County bars vehicle repair, assembly, or storage work as a home occupation outright under Code Sec…

Fort Myers's home business rules expressly exclude repair shops, so residents in any zoning district cannot legally…

Gainesville Code § 26-138 makes it unlawful to perform major vehicle repair, removing an engine, transmission, or rear…

Gulfport's zoning code lists auto repair among the home occupations it will not license. Sec. 22-6.03(d)(13)a bars auto…

Hollywood's home-based business tax receipt flatly bars using a residence for manufacturing, storing, distributing or…

Kissimmee bars vehicle repair of any kind, including bodywork, detailing, washing and interior work, as a home…

Alachua County treats a home-based vehicle-repair operation as two rules colliding: home-based businesses may only park…

Broward's zoning code confines vehicle repair on residential property to a garage, bars body work and painting…

Coral Springs City Code Section 18-9 prohibits all major automobile repairs, engine work, transmission and brake jobs…

Doral doesn't license standalone auto-repair shops in residential areas, but a home-based auto repair operation is…

Hillsborough County lets residents repair their own vehicles at home as an accessory use, but most work must move…

Jacksonville's home-occupation standard bars customers from calling at the house and bans working out of a detached…

Miramar bans vehicle repair work in residential areas except on the owner-occupant's own privately owned car, and even…

Okaloosa County's home occupation rule bars any equipment or process that produces noise, vibration, glare, fumes, or…

Unincorporated Palm Beach County bars home-based businesses from performing paid repair services on-site, and caps work…

Pembroke Pines Code § 99.01 bans vehicle repairs in residential districts except when the owner or tenant repairs their…

Tampa bans most auto repair at home. City Code § 27-282.1 limits residential vehicle work to minor maintenance like…

Running a vehicle repair business out of a home is unlawful in Titusville under Sec. 13-76, and even repair activity…

Winter Haven's home occupation rule effectively forecloses at-home auto repair: Unified Land Development Code Sec…

Major vehicle, boat and truck repair shops in the Town of Davie can't operate within 100 feet of any land that's…

Largo lets residents work on their own inoperative vehicles as a hobby only inside a fully enclosed structure, or for…

Manatee County lets residents do minor auto work at home, but only on a vehicle they or a tenant actually own, limited…

In unincorporated Miami-Dade (UMSA), you can only fix your own car at home, in daylight, and only minor work finished…

New Port Richey bars home-based businesses, including auto repair, from storing hazardous fluids or parking…

Major vehicle repairs, spray painting, body work, or any mechanical fix that disables a car for 24+ hours, are illegal…

In the City of Satellite Beach, major vehicle or boat repairs at a home in a residential zone must happen inside a…

St. Petersburg classifies motor vehicle repair at a residence as a hobby, not a home business, under City Code §…

A home auto-repair operation in unincorporated Sumter County must run as an accessory home-based business: all parts…

West Palm Beach lets residents keep RVs, boats and oversized trucks at home, but Sec. 94-487 of the zoning code bars…

Tow truck operators working in unincorporated Miami-Dade must obtain a Wrecker Operator Permit from the Department of…

Broward County requires every towing and vehicle immobilization company operating countywide to hold a current…

Cape Coral caps what tow operators can charge for nonconsensual private towing and requires signed property-owner…

Collier County requires private-property tow and boot companies to keep an office and storage yard inside the county…

Wrecker companies that tow vehicles from private property without the owner's consent must hold a city regulatory…

Any wrecker towing a vehicle that originates in Daytona Beach must carry garagekeeper's and garage liability insurance…

Any company that tows unauthorized vehicles from private property in Deerfield Beach must hold a city business tax…

A towing company must hold a city permit before recovering, towing or storing any vehicle from private property without…

Fort Myers requires wrecker operators to register vehicles and hold a police-issued permit before towing cars from…

Anyone who tows vehicles off private property in Gainesville without the owner's consent needs a permit from the city's…

Wrecker companies doing city-initiated towing need a separate regulatory license on top of their occupational license…

Article III of the Highlands County traffic code sets a wrecker rotation system for nonconsensual towing, requiring a…

Hollywood tightly regulates non-consent towing from private property under Code of Ordinances Chapter 111. A wrecker…

Homestead only allows towing agencies that hold a current license under Miami-Dade County Code Section 30-464 and are…

Towing firms need a signed property-owner agreement filed with the Sheriff's Office before trespass-towing any vehicle…

Jupiter Town Code § 19-143 caps what tow truck companies can charge for non-consent tows and impounds, covering the…

To join Kissimmee police's non-consent tow rotation list, wrecker operators must hold a city license, provide fenced…

Lakeland requires every tow truck or wrecker operator to hold a city license before joining the police rotation list…

Any tow or immobilization company doing non-consent work in unincorporated Lee County needs a Sheriff's Office operator…

Leon County requires all trespass and nonconsensual towing-storage businesses to hold a sheriff-issued operating…

Melbourne Code § 56-43 sets no separate wrecker procedures; it expressly incorporates Florida Statutes Chapters 713 and…

A towing business must hold a city permit under chapter 106, article VI before removing any vehicle from private…

A tow truck operator cannot pull a vehicle off private property in Miramar without a $150 police-issued permit, a…

Nonconsensual and trespass tows in Nassau County may only be performed by a wrecker operator certified as 'qualified'…

Okaloosa County Code Chapter 12, Article VI governs towing or booting a vehicle from private property without the…

Companies that trespass-tow or immobilize vehicles from private property in Orange County must hold a county business…

Every company that trespass-tows or immobilizes vehicles for profit in Orlando needs a City business tax receipt plus…

Osceola County Code § 22-1 governs every nonconsensual and trespass tow that starts in the unincorporated county. A tow…

Pasco County regulates nonconsensual towing and vehicle booting through section 106-31.5 of its Code of Ordinances…

Before booting or trespass-towing a vehicle from private property in Pinellas County, a towing service must have a…

Towing companies on Plantation's police rotation must run a 24-hour operation under Code of Ordinances Sec. 12-42…

Port Orange runs non-consent towing through a single contracted wrecker service picked by competitive bid, and it is a…

Sarasota County's nonconsensual towing ordinance controls every non-consent tow off private property in the…

Tallahassee caps trespass-towing fees by vehicle weight class, sets a $25 daily storage cap, and requires wrecker…

Volusia County's wrecker ordinance (Sec. 118-91 through 118-103) regulates every nonconsensual and trespass tow that…

West Palm Beach only allows non-consent tows through its own contracted wrecker operator system. Code § 86-9(a) creates…

Alachua County Code § 51.395 caps what a towing company may charge for nonconsensual tows and storage originating in…

Tow operators working unincorporated Bay County cannot charge more than the maximum rates the county commission sets by…

Boca Raton imposes tougher rules than state law before a private property owner can order a non-consent tow. Outside…

Any company that tows vehicles in Boynton Beach and charges owners before releasing them must file its current rate…

Brevard County sets maximum wrecker fees by resolution and forces a one-hour vehicle release window on nonconsensual…

Charlotte County caps what tow operators can charge for nonconsensual towing, vehicle immobilization on private…

Citrus County caps what wreckers can charge for non-consent tows, private-property tows and accident-scene removals at…

Cocoa lets police impound illegally parked, abandoned or hazardous vehicles using the next available towing company…

Escambia County caps what tow operators can charge for nonconsensual tows, wrecks, and abandoned-vehicle removals. The…

Flagler County caps nonconsensual tow, storage and wrecker fees by resolution under Chapter 20, Article VI, and runs a…

Private lots and garages that immobilize or tow vehicles in Fort Lauderdale cannot get a city license on their own…

Gulfport requires a wrecking or towing service to carry an annual city business license under Code Section 13-34…

Non-consensual private towing from real property in Hillsborough County is capped at Board-set maximum rates and…

Lake County Code Sec. 15-7 caps what a wrecker company can charge for a nonconsensual tow in the unincorporated county…

Manatee County caps what a tow truck operator may charge for a non-consensual tow and bars bars and restaurants from…

Martin County sets maximum non-consent towing and storage rates by resolution, and wrecker operators cannot charge…

Tow operators in Miami must comply with Florida Statute Sec. 715.07 plus Miami-Dade County Chapter 30 wrecker…

North Port requires any towing company that charges before releasing a vehicle to file its current rate schedule with…

Palm Bay requires wreckers towing a vehicle from private property without the owner's consent to report tow details to…

Non-consent tow companies operating in unincorporated Palm Beach County must post reflective tow-away signs at every…

Before a property owner or towing business can non-consent tow a vehicle from quasi-public property in Pembroke Pines…

Polk County caps what tow truck operators can charge for nonconsensual tows made from private property or requested by…

Pompano Beach caps wrecker and towing rates at Broward County's adopted schedule and bars anyone but the city's…

A Port St. Lucie property owner can have an unauthorized vehicle towed from private property only if the tow company…

City of Sarasota wreckers must comply with Chapter 33's towing ordinance and state law before hooking a vehicle, file…

In the City of Satellite Beach, wreckers that tow a vehicle parked on private property without the owner's consent…

Seminole County caps what any towing service can charge for a non-consensual or trespass tow that originates in the…

St. Lucie County caps what tow truck companies can charge for nonconsensual tows and requires a signed property-owner…

St. Petersburg requires any towing service that tows a vehicle parked in the City to accept cash, debit card, or any…

Sumter County caps what wrecker operators can charge for non-consent tows, adopting the maximum towing and storage…

Tow operators in Tampa must register with Hillsborough County, follow maximum non-consent towing rates set by county…

Winter Haven has no separate municipal towing code. Instead, Code of Ordinances § 18-126 adopts the Polk County Towing…