Tallahassee, FL

Tallahassee's Land Development Code sets no short-term rental occupancy cap by name, but it defines a family as a related household plus no more than two unrelated people, and treats…

Neither Tallahassee code uses the phrase short-term rental or vacation rental. Guest parking falls under the ordinary residential standard of two spaces per dwelling unit, plus the…

Florida law preempts the regulation of vacation rental licensing and inspections to the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), though local zoning and…

Florida imposes a 6% state sales tax, plus county discretionary surtaxes of 0.5 to 1.5%, on rentals of living accommodations for six months or less, applying universally to short-term…

Tallahassee names no number cap, but section 4-10(c) forbids keeping more animals at your property than can be properly maintained in a healthy condition. Odor, flies and vermin from…

Tallahassee's parks code makes it unlawful to kill, injure, harm, capture, chase, poison, or remove any wildlife, animal, bird, or egg on park grounds. Code of General Ordinances §…

Feeding or harboring an unsterilized, unvaccinated feral cat or dog is unlawful in Tallahassee under Section 4-105 of the Code of General Ordinances. The ban does not reach deer or…

Tallahassee requires every dog to be under its owner's direct control at all times, on or off the owner's property, under Section 4-103 of the Code of General Ordinances. Direct…

An animal reclaimed from Tallahassee Animal Services a second time must be spayed or neutered within 30 days, at the owner's expense, under Section 4-79(e) of the Code of General…

Tallahassee lets the mayor declare a rabies quarantine that requires every dog and cat to stay confined, and Section 4-102 authorizes police to kill any cat found unconfined during…

Tallahassee's Land Development Code lists veterinary services and animal hospitals as a principal permitted use in a wide range of zoning districts, from the Rural District's…

Tallahassee bans keeping livestock or fowl inside city limits under Section 4-5, but carves out a hen exception: non-commercial hens are legal if confined to a secure pen at least 20…

Any pet reclaimed from a Tallahassee Animal Services impoundment must be implanted with a microchip before it goes home, under Section 4-79(d) of the Code of General Ordinances. The…

Tallahassee's animal chapter regulates dogs by behavior, and no breed-specific provision appears anywhere in it. A dog that bites, attacks or menaces can be classified dangerous, which…

Leon County bans keeping any potential rabies-carrier wild animal as a personal pet. A narrow grandfather clause lets owners who already had one before June 1, 1988 keep it under a…

Leon County's urban-agriculture code allows honeybee colonies on community gardens and urban farms under Sec. 10-6.816(e)(4)b and (f)(4)b, but folds the actual standards into state…

Leon County bans retail pet stores from selling or offering to sell dogs, cats or rabbits, a puppy-mill ordinance meant to push buyers toward breeders, shelters and rescues instead…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances Sec. 20-109(b) lets the city manager set rules, procedures and fees for extended parking by residents in metered residential areas. It rides on…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances Sec. 20-79 caps passenger loading zone stops at three minutes and commercial loading zone stops at 15 minutes while the posted hours apply…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances Sec. 20-132 bars abandoning any vehicle anywhere in the city, and Sec. 20-134 gives property owners only 72 hours to remove a partially…

Tallahassee charges electric vehicle drivers by the kilowatt-hour at city-owned public EV stations, plus any parking-meter fee and an idle-time charge after a ten-minute grace period…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances Sec. 20-73 sets the default on-street parking rule: absent markings, every vehicle must park parallel to the right-hand curb and no more than 12…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances Sec. 20-81 makes it unlawful to park a truck or trailer over 20 feet long on a street in front of any residence, except for immediate pickup or…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances Sec. 20-78 bars parking next to any yellow or red curb on a city street unless a sign specifically says parking is allowed there. A police…

In Leon County's OR-1 Office Residential zoning district, off-street parking tied to any permitted non-residential use may not sit in the front yard between a building and the street…

Florida caps the drop fee a tower can charge at half the posted rate if the owner shows up mid-tow, requires a signed itemized receipt, and forces storage lots within 10 to 15 highway…

Tallahassee lets residents burn yard waste in a backyard campfire or contained fire pit without a city permit, but Section 10-2 of the Code of General Ordinances sets hard limits: an…

Tallahassee's own code sets no dates or hours for consumer fireworks. What it does do is exempt permitted fireworks displays from the sound limits, keep fireworks retail out of certain…

Tiny houses built in unincorporated Leon County get their own smoke alarm placement rule. Sec. 5-2.10(f) adds a local subsection, R314.3.2, to the Florida Building Code - Residential…

Open burning of yard waste and land-clearing debris in Florida requires authorization from the Florida Forest Service under Section 590.125, applying universally outside municipal…

The Florida Forest Service has statewide jurisdiction over wildfire prevention and suppression on non-municipal land under Chapter 590, Florida Statutes.

Required landscape areas in Tallahassee cannot use synthetic ground cover. Land Development Code Sec. 5-85(m)(10) states no visible plastic surface covers or synthetic plant material…

Required landscape buffers between conflicting land uses in Tallahassee must be at least 40 percent native species. Land Development Code Sec. 5-85(l)(4) sets that floor for canopy…

Every owner, agent, lessee or occupant of real property in Tallahassee must keep weeds, grass and underbrush cut to 12 inches or less under Code of General Ordinances Section 9-65…

Removing a protected tree in Tallahassee requires an environmental management permit under Land Development Code Sec. 5-83. Any tree of two inches DBH or greater counts as protected…

Trees and landscaping inside a Leon County sight triangle must be trimmed so drivers get an unobstructed view between two and ten feet above the road centerline. A tree can overhang…

Florida Statutes Chapter 373 grants water management districts authority to impose mandatory landscape irrigation restrictions that apply uniformly across all counties and…

Retaining walls in Tallahassee cannot exceed 15 feet in height, and any wall two feet or taller needs a building permit. Land Development Code Sec. 5-87(3) also requires walls spaced…

Tallahassee's fence ordinance bans barbed wire on residential fences, wood or metal sheeting not built for fencing, and masonry blocks or bricks stacked without mortar. LDC § 3-401…

Tallahassee treats any fence under four feet tall as a code violation under LDC § 3-401, alongside barbed wire and other unsafe fence materials. The rule is enforced as a public…

Along Leon County's protected canopy roads, you can't just repair or maintain an existing fence: the Land Development Code requires an environmental management permit application…

Florida's one statewide fence statute, §588.011, defines a legal fence as at least 3 feet high with three strands of wire on posts no more than 20 feet apart. Residential height…

A Tallahassee home occupation cannot generate more than two client, customer, or supplier vehicle round trips per hour, or ten per day, under Land Development Code Section 10-412(2)g…

Tallahassee lets residents run a home occupation in any zoning district, but Land Development Code § 10-412(2)f bars every trace of exterior advertising: no sign or other evidence of…

Home occupations are a permissible accessory use in every Tallahassee zoning district under Land Development Code Section 10-412(2), but only a resident can run one, it must stay under…

Leon County's land development code, Sec. 10-6.811, regulates day care centers and employer-based day care services but says plainly it does not apply to family day care homes. The…

Florida's Cottage Food Operations Act preempts local regulation, allowing home production of non-potentially hazardous foods up to a statewide gross sales limit.

A dog, cat or other pet that habitually barks, whines, howls, crows or cackles in an excessive, continuous or untimely way is a public nuisance under Section 4-10(b)(1) of the Code of…

In Tallahassee's OA-1 Airport Vicinity District, LDC § 10-254 flatly precludes residential and other noise-sensitive uses on parcels beneath aircraft noise contours reaching 65 DNL or…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances § 12-94(b) sets a nighttime noise curfew inside the mapped Urban Core: any sound unreasonably loud, raucous, or jarring and plainly audible to an…

Leon County bans unmuffled compression or exhaust engine brakes on Highway 27 North from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., with a $500 civil fine per violation.

Outdoor concerts need a temporary use permit, and at designated activity centers amplified events can run until 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Leon County limits construction, demolition and street-excavation noise to 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sundays, under Sec…

Leon County bars unreasonably loud noise from commercial premises that carries onto neighboring residential property between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Leon County bans loud gas blowers, power fans and similar internal combustion engines in residential and noise-sensitive areas between 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. under Sec. 12-56(12), but…

Tallahassee allows accessory dwelling units in all zoning districts if every standard in section 10-412 is met. An ADU cannot exceed 1,200 square feet of gross floor area under roof…

A shed or other accessory structure in Tallahassee must sit at least 10 feet from every property line, stay out of the front yard, side-corner yard, and required buffers, and keep 6…

Florida Statute 553.73 makes the Florida Building Code the single, uniform construction standard for all permanent dwellings statewide, including tiny homes, preempting cities from…

Tallahassee administers pool permitting through the Florida Building Code, which § 3-82 of the Land Development Code adopts by reference. The city then writes its own barrier…

Tallahassee has its own pool barrier ordinance, not just state law. Section 3-433 requires every outdoor residential swimming pool to be completely surrounded by a fence or wall at…

Standard residential service is weekly curbside garbage and recycling plus bulky waste and yard waste every other week. Put carts out no earlier than the day before collection and…

Tallahassee's Department of Solid Waste Services requires garbage and recycling containers to sit at least three feet from utility poles, fire hydrants, signs and irrigation equipment…

Tallahassee's Department of Solid Waste Services must issue every single-family home a recovered-material container when service starts, and it must do the same for apartment…

Tallahassee commercial establishments must contain their waste in a forktainer, roll-off container, or director-approved rear-load container, and must locate it where city trucks have…

Tallahassee caps every curbside yard waste pile at six feet long, four feet wide and four feet high, and limbs cannot exceed four inches in diameter or six-foot lengths. Section 21-488…

Tallahassee bans dumping solid waste or recovered materials on any street, alley, or public or private property unless it sits directly in front of the dumper's own address. The Code…

Once a Tallahassee resident sets recyclables out for collection, they become the property of the city, not the resident, and only the department's authorized collector may take them…

Leon County requires every improved property owner or occupant to deliver solid waste to the county's disposal system on the schedule the county sets, making use of the collection…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances § 12-91 makes it unlawful to stand, congregate, or assemble on sidewalks, street corners, or in and around parks and public buildings so as to…

Tallahassee's park code bans camping and overnight parking in any city park unless the parks director specifically authorizes it. Code of General Ordinances § 13-34(a)(21)-(22) sits…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances § 12-94(c) bars any alcohol-serving establishment zoned Central Core inside the Urban Core from producing outdoor amplified sound plainly audible…

Tallahassee caps trespass-towing fees by vehicle weight class, sets a $25 daily storage cap, and requires wrecker operators to hold a Leon County permit. Companies that skip the…

Tallahassee zones tattoo parlors out of two specific districts rather than banning them citywide. The Land Development Code excludes tattoo parlors from the personal-service uses…

Leon County requires anyone buying or selling secondhand precious metals or copper in the unincorporated area to keep a transaction register approved by the sheriff, verify each…

Leon County bans nude and semi-nude entertainment in any commercial establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed or even available, under Sec. 11-24. A conviction can…

Florida Statute 569.315 expressly preempts the regulation of the marketing, sale, and delivery of nicotine products and dispensing devices to the state, voiding most municipal…

Tallahassee limits reclaimed (recycled) water to approved uses like irrigation, fire protection, and dust control, and caps irrigation at two inches per week unless a nutrient…

When a city water meter sits on a private water system, Tallahassee code makes the property owner responsible for the pipe from the meter to the right-of-way or backflow preventer. If…

Any parade, rally, demonstration or assembly expected to draw over 50 people on a Tallahassee street, sidewalk or city property needs a permit from the Parks, Recreation and…

Anyone staging an outdoor public assembly in a Tallahassee city park needs a permit from the parks director first, under Code of General Ordinances § 13-71. Applications go in at least…

Tallahassee bans uncontrolled weed and grass growth and trash accumulation on any premises, occupied or unoccupied, under Code of General Ordinances § 9-61. Owners of vacant lots must…

Tallahassee's enforcement official can order repair, vacation or demolition of a dangerous building under LDC Article X. Repairs are ordered only below a 50 percent assessed-value…

In Tallahassee city parks, Code of General Ordinances § 13-34(b)(6) bars loitering in or near any structure or facility in a manner that would create a justifiable alarm for the safety…

A Tallahassee address that racks up more than three police-documented loud-noise occasions in six months can be declared a public nuisance under Code of General Ordinances Section…

Tallahassee's parks code makes it unlawful to discharge or deposit human waste anywhere in a city park except in toilet facilities the city provides. Code of General Ordinances §…

Tallahassee bans consuming or possessing an open container of beer, wine or liquor within 500 feet of any bar, club or package store licensed to sell alcohol, unless you are inside a…

Leon County outlaws possessing or using marijuana or any other controlled substance in county-controlled parks, with no exception for personal or medical use without county…

Inside Tallahassee's city parks, Code of General Ordinances § 13-34(a)(11)-(12) bars cooking food and setting or stoking any fire except where the city has provided facilities for it…

Tallahassee's Land Development Code sets exact hardware specs for exterior doors on new and substantially renovated residential buildings: a deadbolt, solid-core construction…

Tallahassee incorporates the Florida Building Code by reference to govern all building permits, from plans review to inspections. The Building Inspection Division, under the building…

Tallahassee requires a complete set of electrical plans before most jobs start, reviewed by the electrical inspection and electric departments. Single-family detached and duplex…

New buildings inside Tallahassee's T3, T4, T5, and Downtown Overlay zones must implement Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design energy-efficiency measures under Land Development…

Any patriarch tree in Tallahassee, defined as a state-designated patriarch or champion tree or an exceptional shade tree 36 inches or more in diameter, is a protected tree under Land…

Tallahassee names the live oak its official shade tree and the dogwood its official flowering tree, then protects specific tree classes by size and type under Land Development Code…

Tallahassee's Land Development Code sets aside a Rural (R) zoning district capped at one dwelling per ten acres to keep agriculture, forestry and grazing land from being broken up by…

Leon County's own Rural Zoning District rules state that a bona fide farm operation is exempt from local regulation on land classified agricultural, mirroring Florida's Right to Farm…

Tallahassee's Land Development Code caps impervious lot coverage at 40 percent for single-family homes in the Residential Preservation-1 (RP-1) and Residential Preservation-2 (RP-2)…

Tallahassee's R-1 Single-Family Detached Residential District caps building height at three stories, excluding any stories used for parking, under the development standards table in…

In Tallahassee's R-1 Single-Family Detached Residential District, LDC § 10-244 sets a 25-foot front setback, a 25-foot rear setback, a 15-foot side-corner setback, and 7.5 feet on each…

Landscape plans submitted for a Tallahassee environmental management permit cannot use any plant on the state's prohibited list. Land Development Code Sec. 5-85(m)(3) bars use of…

Tallahassee requires new residential construction in mapped flood hazard areas to sit at least two feet above the base flood elevation, per LDC § 6-62. The city bases its flood maps on…

Leon County requires a building permit before you install, replace, or remove impact-resistant window or door coverings on any structure.

Leon County requires storm debris to be sorted by type and stacked at the road's edge for county pickup, with strict placement limits.

Tallahassee applies the 2003 International Property Maintenance Code to every existing residential building through LDC § 3-486, setting the minimum habitability floor for rentals…

Fla. Stat. § 83.56 requires a 3-day notice to pay rent or vacate for nonpayment, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays from the count. For lease violations, the landlord…

Florida's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Chapter 83 Part II, exclusively defines lawful eviction grounds and procedures statewide, preempting cities from adding just-cause…

Under Fla. Stat. § 83.53, a Florida landlord must give at least 24 hours' notice to enter for repairs and may enter only at reasonable times, defined as between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m…

For a month-to-month tenancy, Fla. Stat. § 83.57 now requires 30 days' written notice (raised from 15 days by 2023's HB 1417). Breaking a fixed-term lease triggers landlord remedies…

Florida effectively bans local rent control. State law bars any city or county from imposing controls on rents, and the 2023 Live Local Act removed the old narrow exception that had…

Florida has no rent control and no statute setting a maximum rent increase or a dedicated advance-notice period. On a month-to-month tenancy, a new rent takes effect only through the…

Florida Statute 509.032(7) preempts local regulation of vacation rental bans, duration, and frequency, while FS 83.425 (2023) preempts local regulation of residential tenancies…

Florida places no dollar limit on residential security deposits, but it enforces tight deadlines. If the landlord makes no claim, the deposit must be returned within 15 days of…

Adverse possession in Florida requires 7 years of actual, continued, exclusive possession plus paying all taxes within a year and filing a return with the property appraiser (Fla…

Tallahassee requires new and substantially improved residential structures in a mapped flood hazard area to sit at least two feet above the base flood elevation, a full foot of…

Tallahassee requires a floodplain development permit before any development activity, including fill, grading, or structural work, inside the areas of special flood hazard shown on the…

Every environmental management permit application in Tallahassee must include a sediment and erosion control plan under Land Development Code Sec. 5-88. Sites cleared for more than 14…

Development that changes stormwater's predevelopment rate, volume or direction off-site needs approved treatment under Land Development Code Sec. 5-86. Wet detention ponds must capture…

Florida regulates construction seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line through state permits, with uniform standards administered by the Department of Environmental Protection.

Tallahassee caps window signage at 20 percent of a storefront's glass surface area before it becomes prohibited outright. Land Development Code § 7-32(15) exempts window signs…

Off-site billboards in Tallahassee are locked into five zoning categories along its commercial and interstate corridors, capped at 40 feet high, and pulled back at least 15 feet from…

Political signs in Tallahassee skip the sign permit process entirely as long as each one stays at or under 16 square feet. Land Development Code § 7-32(14) places them in Article II's…

Tallahassee bans new digital billboards outright, except through a narrow trade-in program. Land Development Code § 7-64(f) allows only six tri-vision signs and three variable message…

Tallahassee exempts holiday lights and decorations from its sign permitting system outright. Land Development Code § 7-32(7) places them in the same no-permit category as memorial…

Individual buildings, structures, sites, and objects that Tallahassee's Architectural Review Board finds historically or architecturally significant can be nominated onto the city's…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances § 20-50 still authorizes the city manager to run "traffic infraction detectors" (red-light cameras) under F.S. § 316.0083, but the city pulled…

Shared e-scooters and micro-mobility devices in Tallahassee run only under a city operating agreement and permit, capped at 15 mph, with the city manager empowered to geofence no-ride…

Tallahassee does not zone TNC pickup spots on city streets, where Florida's F.S. § 627.748 preempts local control, but it does regulate pickups at Tallahassee International Airport…

Florida flips the usual assumption: a golf cart is barred from public roads unless a county, a municipality, or a water control district has affirmatively designated that road for cart…

Digital billboards in Tallahassee can't glow as bright as their operator likes. Land Development Code § 7-64(f)(6)(g) sets numeric candela-per-square-foot ceilings for variable message…

When a non-residential or dense-residential project in Tallahassee sits next to or across the street from a protected residential property, Land Development Code § 10-427(c)(3)b caps…

Tallahassee applies dark-sky lighting standards to the Multi-Modal Transportation District's Transects T3, T4 and T5 under Land Development Code § 10-427(c)(1)b: development there must…

Tallahassee has no general door-to-door solicitor permit in its code. Selling on public ways needs a street vending permit from the city manager's office, and section 12-62 bans…

The Tallahassee code sets up no door-to-door solicitor permit and no no-knock registry. What it does regulate is roadside solicitation: section 12-62 bars handing anything to drivers…

Inside Tallahassee's Multi-Modal Transportation District, covering the T3, T4, T5 zones and the Downtown Overlay, a project can earn up to a 25 percent density or intensity bonus (35…

Every parcel inside Tallahassee's Downtown Overlay must follow the Downtown Regulating Plan set out in Land Development Code Sections 10-282 and 10-282.1: five maps, DT-1 through DT-5…

Tallahassee's business tax certificate rules require construction-trade applicants to hold a state certificate of competency matched to their license category, from master plumber and…

Tallahassee city parks close at dusk. Code of General Ordinances § 13-33 sets default hours of sunrise to sunset unless the parks director posts different hours, and lit courts can…

Florida Statutes 877.20 through 877.25, the Juvenile Curfew Act, set a uniform statewide framework allowing counties to impose curfews on minors under 16 with specific hours…

Tallahassee's general nuisance ordinance makes it unlawful to let trash, litter, debris or noxious matter accumulate on any property, occupied or not, and separately bans uncontrolled…

Leon County classifies a food truck as a 'mobile food service operation' under Sec. 10-6.817 only if it is self-contained, untethered to utilities, and moved off any single site within…

Leon County only lets a food truck skip full site-plan review if it clears eight strict tests under the land development code, and one of them is an outright ban on the right-of-way…

Leon County only recognizes a food truck as a compliant mobile food service operation if it sets up in a zoning district that already allows a restaurant, retail food-service use, or…

Leon County levies a 5 percent tourist development tax on every rental of six months or less at hotels, motels, resort motels, apartments, roominghouses, mobile home parks, RV parks…

Medical marijuana dispensing, cultivating, and processing facilities must sit at least 500 feet from any existing public or private school, measured property line to property line…

Leon County treats a medical marijuana dispensing facility as a permissible use in any zoning district that already allows a drug store or general retail commercial use. Before…

Florida prohibits home cultivation of cannabis for both recreational and medical use; only state-licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers may grow cannabis.

Every solar installation in unincorporated Leon County needs a building permit priced off the standard Development Support and Environmental Management fee schedule, with no surcharge…

Florida law voids any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA agreement that bans or effectively blocks solar collectors on homes or condo units, and boards cannot deny installation…

Leon County has no data-center-specific noise code, but its general noise ordinance caps commercial equipment noise reaching nearby residential property.

Commercial drone operations in Florida are regulated by federal FAA Part 107 and state law; local governments cannot impose additional commercial operation restrictions.

Florida expressly preempts local regulation of drones, reserving authority to the state and federal government, with limited surveillance and trespass exceptions.

Florida Statute 218.077 prohibits local governments from establishing a minimum wage other than the state or federal rate, preempting city and county living-wage ordinances except for…

Florida Statute 509.032(7) and broader employment preemption framework prevent local governments from requiring private employers to follow predictive or fair-scheduling rules beyond…

Florida allows permitless concealed carry of firearms by law-abiding adults under FS 790.01 and continues to issue concealed weapon licenses through FS 790.06, with both regimes…

Florida Statute 790.33 expressly preempts the entire field of firearm and ammunition regulation to the state, voiding all local ordinances and imposing personal civil penalties on…

Florida's open carry ban (FS 790.053) was struck down by the First District Court of Appeal in McDaniels v. State on September 10, 2025. The Florida Attorney General issued guidance on…

Florida Statute 790.25(5) allows any law-abiding person 18 or older to possess a concealed firearm in a private vehicle for self-defense, provided the firearm is securely encased or…

Florida cardrooms operate only inside licensed pari-mutuel facilities, dog tracks, horse tracks, and jai alai frontons, under a license from the Florida Gaming Control Commission. Fla…

Florida lets charitable, nonprofit, and veterans' organizations run bingo without applying for any state gaming license: the statute itself sets the eligibility bar and the limits. A…

Florida law exempts small-stakes card and tile games from gambling crimes under Fla. Stat. § 849.085, but only under strict conditions: winnings per hand can't exceed $10, the game…

Sports wagering is legal in Florida only through the Seminole Tribe's Hard Rock Bet platform, authorized under the state's gaming compact codified at Fla. Stat. § 285.710(13)(b)7…

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.3085, unpaid assessments become a lien on a parcel, and the homeowners' association may foreclose like a mortgage. Before recording the lien the association must…

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.303(2), Florida HOA board meetings must be open to members with notice posted at least 48 hours ahead. Section 720.306 governs member meetings and elections, §…

Under Fla. Stat. §§ 720.303 and 720.3035, a Florida HOA enforces its recorded covenants and architectural standards, but only where authority is stated or reasonably inferred in the…

Florida Statute 163.04 bars homeowner association deed restrictions and local ordinances from prohibiting clotheslines, solar collectors, or other renewable-resource energy devices in…

Florida law bars HOA declarations, articles, and bylaws from prohibiting Florida-friendly landscaping, defined by statute as drought-tolerant, water-conserving design. Section…

Florida law bars homeowners associations from stopping owners from flying up to two flags, each no larger than 4 1/2 by 6 feet, including the U.S. flag, Florida's state flag, military…

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.305, a Florida HOA may fine up to $100 per violation and $1,000 in the aggregate unless the governing documents allow more. The association must give at least 14…

A Florida association can foreclose an assessment lien in the same manner a mortgage is foreclosed, but only after two separate 45-day notices, and fines are largely off limits: a…

Florida limits how homeowners' associations can restrict renting out a home, but only in communities governed by Chapter 720, not condos or co-ops. Under Fla. Stat. § 720.306(1)(h), a…

Florida allows sobriety checkpoints, and the discretion of the individual trooper is what gets constrained. Fla. Stat. § 321.05(1) gives Florida Highway Patrol officers the power to…

Florida is an all-party consent state, but that rule reaches less far than it sounds. Fla. Stat. § 934.03(2)(d) makes interception lawful only when every party consents, while §…

Florida has no general stop-and-identify statute. The Florida Stop and Frisk Law, Fla. Stat. § 901.151(2), lets an officer temporarily detain you to ascertain your identity when…

Florida wrote the automobile exception into its statutes in 1927. Fla. Stat. § 933.19 adopts the United States Supreme Court's decision of March 2, 1925 in the Carroll case, reported…

Florida Statute 403.7033 preempts the regulation of disposable plastic bags by local governments, prohibiting cities and counties from enacting bans or fees on retailers pending a…

Florida Statute 500.90 preempts the regulation of polystyrene products by local governments, blocking cities and counties from banning expanded polystyrene foam food containers, cups…

Florida Statute 569.101 prohibits the sale or delivery of tobacco and nicotine products to persons under 21, aligning with federal law and applying uniformly statewide under the…

Florida is one of the states that says yes to underbody lighting in so many words. Fla. Stat. § 316.235(3) provides that any motor vehicle may be equipped with one or more lamps or…

Florida does not give dash cameras a windshield carve-out. Fla. Stat. § 316.2952(2) is written as a closed list of exactly four things that may be attached to, or located in or upon, a…

Florida bans lane splitting in so many words. Fla. Stat. section 316.209(3) states that no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows…

Florida treats an obscured plate as a crime, not a ticket. Fla. Stat. section 320.061(1) makes it unlawful to apply or attach any substance, reflective matter, illuminated device…

A driver of a private passenger vehicle may use a radar detector in Florida. No section of the Florida Statutes prohibits owning, carrying or operating one, and chapter 316, which…

Florida does not ban studded tires and does not restrict them to a winter season. The one wheel-surface provision in the traffic code, Fla. Stat. section 316.299, prohibits driving on…

Florida sets a separate light transmittance floor for each piece of glass rather than one statewide number. Side wings and side windows forward of or next to the driver must pass at…