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Short-term rental rules in Mount Dora, FL
How Mount Dora regulates short-term rentals: the rules that apply, their sources, and pending changes.
Short-term rentals here are subject to registration, a lodging tax, or a small number of operating rules.
- general (non-STR-specific) rental registration + inspection program in force for all rental dwellings regardless of stay length (Ch. 22 Pt. VII, Ord. 2017-05)
- No STR-specific ordinance and no residential-zone exclusion — the Land Development Code Ch. III is silent on short-term, transient and vacation rental
- no municipal City lodging tax; the Lake County tourist-development tax is the county's device
Based on: Ord. 2017-05 amending Chapter 22, Part VII 'Real Property Rental Inspection' (successor to Ord. 2007-955 est.
Summary of the rule
It is prohibited and unlawful for any property owner or other person, firm, corporation or other entity to operate or cause to be rented any rental dwelling unit, either as lessor, owner or agent, without having first obtained a rental license... 'Rental dwelling unit means a structure or part of a structure used as a home, residence or sleeping place that is occupied by one or more tenants for which the owner is receiving, or is entitled to receive, rent or compensation in any other form.'
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