Pompano Beach, FL short-term rental registration

What Pompano Beach asks of you

• An annual permit is required to operate a short-term rental property in Pompano Beach.^[6]

• Operators must first hold a DBPR transient public lodging establishment licence, a Florida Department of Revenue certificate of registration, a Broward County business tax receipt and a city business tax receipt.^[6]

• The completed four-page application is submitted to the business tax receipt office with the appropriate fee.^[6]

• Once the application is processed, inspections are made by appointment with the twenty-four-hour contact person.^[6]

• Compliance with the city's rental housing code, the Florida Building Code and the Florida Fire Prevention Code is required before an initial short-term rental permit is issued.^[6]

• The short-term rental provisions were established by Ordinance 2017-50 and sit in chapter 153 of the Code of Ordinances, on rental housing.^[7]

What Florida asks wherever you host

These rules apply at this address whatever the city decides.

• Florida licenses vacation rentals itself. A house, townhouse or unit in a building of four units or fewer is licensed as a dwelling, a unit in a condominium or cooperative as a condominium, and the licence costs $150 plus $10 per rental unit plus a $10 hospitality education fee.^[2]

• A city cannot ban vacation rentals, nor regulate how long or how often you rent, unless its ordinance was already on the books on June 1, 2011. Ordinances adopted before that date survive untouched, which is why two neighbouring Florida towns can sit at opposite ends of the scale.^[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, and so is the seventh month onward once a guest has stayed and paid for six.^[3]