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Short-term rental rules in Cape Canaveral, FL
How Cape Canaveral regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here operate under a registration or permit system with ongoing operating rules.
- mandatory annual vacation-rental registration (Ord. 10-2021)
- safety inspection required (initial + ongoing)
- local Business Tax Receipt required
- Deckard vacation-rental permit portal registration
- occupancy caps by dwelling square footage
- whole-unit-only (no individual-room rental); no commercial/event use
- 3-year booking-log recordkeeping requirement
- escalating unregistered-operation fines
Based on: Ord. No. 10-2021 (effective 2021-10-01); Code of Ordinances Sec. 110-486 (vacation rentals)
Summary of the rule
Ordinance No. 10-2021, codified at Sec. 110-486; vacation-rental program effective 2021-10-01 (post-2011, process-class)
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Pending legislation
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