Florida Senate - 2017                              CS for SB 188
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senators Steube
       and Perry
       
       
       
       
       580-02662-17                                           2017188c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to vacation rentals; amending s.
    3         509.032, F.S.; authorizing local laws, ordinances, or
    4         regulations to regulate activities relating to
    5         vacation rentals only if such laws, ordinances, or
    6         regulations apply uniformly to all properties;
    7         providing applicability; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section
   12  509.032, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         509.032 Duties.—
   14         (7) PREEMPTION AUTHORITY.—
   15         (b) A local law, ordinance, or regulation may regulate
   16  activities that arise when a property is used as a vacation
   17  rental provided such regulation applies uniformly to all
   18  residential properties without regard to whether the property is
   19  used as a vacation rental as defined in s. 509.242 or a long
   20  term rental subject to the provisions of Chapter 83 or whether a
   21  property owner chooses not to rent the property. However, a
   22  local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation
   23  rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rentals of
   24  vacation rentals. This paragraph does not apply to any local
   25  law, ordinance or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011,
   26  except when such law, ordinance or regulation is being amended
   27  to be less restrictive A local law, ordinance, or regulation may
   28  not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or
   29  frequency of rental of vacation rentals. This paragraph does not
   30  apply to any local law, ordinance, or regulation adopted on or
   31  before June 1, 2011.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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