Cocoa Beach, FL short-term rental registration

What Cocoa Beach asks of you

• All vacation rentals in the city are required to register, and owners or authorized agents register online and pay a registration fee.^[6]

• Every owner registers personally or through an agent, on the forms the city or its third-party vendor provides.^[7]

• A separate registration is required for each vacation rental.^[7]

• Operating a vacation rental without registration is a violation, and every day of such operation is a separate violation.^[7]

• The only exception is providing accommodation to fulfill a contract that pre-existed the registration requirement.^[7]

What Florida asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Florida licenses vacation rentals itself. A dwelling license covers houses, townhouses and buildings of up to four units. A condominium or cooperative unit takes a condominium license instead. The license costs $150 plus $10 per rental unit, plus a $10 hospitality education fee.^[2]

• No Florida city may ban vacation rentals. It may not set how long or how often you rent either. The one exception is a local ordinance already in force on June 1, 2011, which still applies.^[1]

• State sales tax is due on every rental of six months or less. A bona fide written lease for more than six months of continuous residence is exempt. So is the seventh month onward once a guest has stayed and paid for six.^[3]