Miami-Dade County, Florida Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Miami-Dade County, Florida and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that most of this county says yes, provided you hold a Certificate of Use before the listing goes live and keep renewing it yearly. The catch is that Miami-Dade isn't one jurisdiction at all. It's 34 incorporated cities, towns and villages wrapped around a large unincorporated area, and the county's short-term rental ordinance stops dead at every one of those city lines.

So the first thing to settle is whose rules you're under, because the distance between them is enormous. A house in unincorporated Miami-Dade can be rented nightly once that certificate is in hand, and there's a clear process behind it with an inspection and a published list of standards. A house a few blocks away inside Miami Beach can't be rented short-term at all if it's a single-family home, and no fee or permit changes that answer. Unfortunately, plenty of buyers find that out after closing rather than before.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly in 2026: how to tell which jurisdiction you're in, what the county's certificate involves, the sworn paperwork behind it, the 13 percent of tax that comes off a booking, the state framework above all of it, and who to call when your situation doesn't fit the form. Every figure below comes from Miami-Dade County's own pages, the Florida Statutes or the Department of Revenue, checked in July 2026, and where I couldn't confirm something on an official page I've said so. Before you buy on the strength of a nightly rate, though, run the property through BNBCalc first.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Miami-Dade County

Settling that jurisdiction question turns out to be the easy part, thankfully, because there's a shortcut for it. Look at the folio number on your tax bill. The county's own vacation rental FAQ, archived in March 2023, says the county regulations reach the unincorporated area only, which is the folios beginning with 30.

If yours starts with anything else, you're inside a municipality, and the county's short-term vacation rentals page sends you straight to that city: "the owner or responsible party must contact the respective municipal government for its regulations."

Assuming your folio does start with 30, then the law you're operating under is Section 33-28 of the Miami-Dade County Code, adopted as Ordinance 17-78 in October 2017 and amended by Ordinance 20-8 in January 2020. It calls a vacation rental any dwelling or residence, condominium and cooperative units included, rented in whole or in part to someone for less than 30 days or one calendar month, whichever is shorter. Rent your spare room for a weekend and you're inside it. That's the whole test.

Notice the second half of that definition, though, because it catches people who haven't taken a booking yet. A property merely "advertised or held out to the public" as available to a transient occupant is a vacation rental too, which is why the county wants the certificate before you publish rather than before your first guest arrives.

One provision inside that ordinance then rewrites the business case for a large slice of the unincorporated county. Under subsection (D)(4), a vacation rental in any area the county designates Estate or Low Density residential has to be a home where the responsible party lives more than six months a year. Renting it out while you're living there is expressly allowed, so a spare room or half a duplex still works. What doesn't work is the absentee model.

That designation is the difference between a rental business and a hobby, so do check your parcel on the county's land management map before you commit to anything. The line is a hard one, though. The ordinance says outright that the residency rule doesn't reach areas designated Low-Medium, Medium, Medium-High or High Density, while the archived FAQ adds that vacation rentals are otherwise fine in the Residential Communities, Business and Office and Office Residential designations.

Municipal addresses raise a different question, and the answers spread wide. Miami Beach sits at the hard end, where the city's vacation rental page confirms that rentals shorter than six months and a day are prohibited in all single-family homes under Resiliency Code section 7.5.4.13(d)(E), and in many multifamily buildings under section 7.5.4.11(a).

Miami Lakes lands in the middle, having rewritten its short-term rental division in March 2025 so that a vacation rental certificate of use costs $500, renews at $500, and expires every September 30 whichever month you got it.

Neither of those is the county's rule, mind you, and neither would surface if you only read the county's page.

The city line decides it.

Then comes the layer that isn't government at all, which in a county this full of condominiums catches more owners than zoning does. Your association can restrict rentals on its own authority, and Section 33-28 makes you notify the board and follow its policies anyway.

Florida hands you one narrow protection here, in section 718.110(13) of the Florida Statutes: an amendment banning rentals, altering their duration or limiting how often you may rent "applies only to unit owners who consent to the amendment and unit owners who acquire title to their units after the effective date of that amendment." Buy into a building that already restricts rentals, though, and you're bound from day one.

Keep in mind that the county's application also makes you acknowledge what hosting can do to your homestead exemption. Under section 196.061, renting all or substantially all of a homesteaded dwelling counts as abandoning the homestead, although your exemption for that year survives unless the property is rented more than 30 days per calendar year in two consecutive years.

That second year is where owners get hurt, since nothing visible happens the first time round.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Miami-Dade County

Assuming your folio, your land use designation and your association all clear, there's still the licensing to get through, and it's where the county gets specific. The certificate has to be in hand "prior to listing and advertising the property on any peer-to-peer platform," in the county's own words. You apply to the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, an inspection gets scheduled once you do, and a new certificate is needed every year.

The ordinance does soften the wait, mind you, and it's the one generous provision in the whole section. Section 33-28(C) lets a property be offered as a vacation rental immediately upon submission of the application, unless and until it's later rejected or revoked for failing inspection.

So your clock starts when you file, not when the certificate lands.

What I can't give you is a current price. The county's live page carries no dollar figure and points you at its Certificate of Use office on 786-315-2660 instead, while the numbers circulating in search results trace back to a page the county has taken down. The last figure Miami-Dade published itself, on that FAQ archived in March 2023, was $136.17 covering the certificate and the required inspection. Treat it as a floor from three years ago, and make the call before you budget.

The cost of getting caught first is published, though, and it's worse. Once a citation issues under Section 33-28, the county adds a violation fee of $231.90 plus double the cost of the certificate to the price of getting legal.

Holding the certificate then commits you to operating standards, and these are the ones that get inspected, complained about and cited:

• Occupancy runs to two people per bedroom plus two more per property, capped at 12 overnight, excluding children under three. Daytime numbers go four higher, to 16, with "overnight" running 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. The Florida Building Code occupant load overrides all of it whenever it's lower.
• Someone has to answer the phone at 3 a.m. The responsible party must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to resolve any issue at the rental, and that person's name, address and phone number go on the certificate.
• Guests get two vehicles between them, in the driveway or a designated on-site space, or on the street or swale directly in front where there is none.
• No outdoor amplified sound, at any time. Not late at night, not on a Saturday afternoon. The county noise rule in Section 21-28 applies on top of that.
• A pool needs at least one safety feature from section 515.27 of the Florida Statutes, meaning a barrier, cover, alarm or door latch, in place before anyone under six uses the property. Community pools, such as a condominium's, are excepted as the Director decides.
• Post the certificate inside the unit where guests can see it, showing the responsible party's details and the maximum occupancy.
• Keep a guest register with the names and dates of stay of every occupant and invitee, open to County inspection.
• Notify the association, and give guests written notice before they occupy of the noise, nuisance, parking, waste and common-area rules.

Three or more violations of Section 33-28 inside the preceding 12 months triggers the provision that ends most operations. The Department won't issue or renew your certificate unless every outstanding violation and lien is cleared and you post a $10,000 bond, and it notifies your booking platform of the property and the violation dates too. Get cited again within 12 months of posting that bond and the bond is forfeited, the certificate is revoked, and it can't be reissued for a year.

The county certificate is one of four registrations, mind you, and the other three are easy to forget until a tax notice arrives. Florida requires a state vacation rental licence from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants under section 509.241, issued as either Vacation Rental Dwelling or Vacation Rental Condo.

As of July 2026 the Division's lodging fee schedule puts a single unit at a $50 application fee plus $170 for a full year, or $90 for a half year, with a $10 Hospitality Education Program fee on top of whichever you land on.

After that you register with the Florida Department of Revenue for sales tax and take out a Miami-Dade Local Business Tax Receipt, which the county lists among the things you need before the tax side can be set up. I couldn't confirm what that receipt costs, since the Tax Collector's page returned a server error on every attempt, so it's another call rather than a figure for the model.

Required Documents for Miami-Dade County Short-Term Rentals

Since the certificate stands or falls on that application, it's worth getting the paperwork right the first time. It's signed under oath, and Section 33-28(C)(1) lists what has to be in it. Several items are statements you swear to rather than documents you upload, which sounds lighter than it is, because subsection (C)(2) then makes you keep the licences and records behind every one of those statements and hand them over on request.

• The address and legal description of the property, plus the owner's name, address and phone number.
• The name, address and phone number of the responsible party, and a statement that they have the owner's permission and authority to act.
• The name and contact information for every platform the rental is or will be listed on.
• A statement on taxes, saying either that you'll remit the county business and tourist taxes or that a platform will.
• A statement of whether the whole property or only part of it, a room or rooms, is the rental.
• A statement that liability insurance will be in force whenever the property is used as a vacation rental, acknowledging that a standard homeowner's or renter's policy may not cover that use.
• An acknowledgment that you've received, and passed to the owner, information explaining that vacation rental use could cost the homestead exemption.
• A count of how many times, and for how many days in total, the property was used as a vacation rental in the previous calendar year.
• Acknowledgments that the property must be registered with the Florida Department of Revenue, licensed by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and kept in compliance with the standards in subsection (D).

Be aware that a careless application carries its own penalty rather than a polite request to try again. Providing false or misleading information is grounds to deny or revoke the certificate outright. You can appeal that to a hearing examiner under chapter 8CC or section 1-5 of the code, though it's a much worse position than filing a fortnight later with the right documents.

So keep the register, the insurance certificate, the state licence and the tax registrations together in one folder. It's unglamorous, and it's exactly what the inspector asks to see.

Do keep the receipts.

Miami-Dade County Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to set up, and in Miami-Dade it arrives as five separate charges from two governments. Two belong to the state and three to the county, which matters because they're filed in different places on different forms.

Charge	Rate	Collected by
Florida sales tax on transient rentals	6%	Florida Department of Revenue
Miami-Dade discretionary sales surtax	1%	Florida Department of Revenue
Convention Development Tax	3%	Miami-Dade County (RER Business Section)
Tourist Development Room Tax	2%	Miami-Dade County (RER Business Section)
Professional Sports Facilities Franchise Tax	1%	Miami-Dade County (RER Business Section)
Total across most of the county	13%	state and county combined

The state half comes from the Department of Revenue's own material. Its GT-800034 brochure makes rentals of living, sleeping or housekeeping accommodations for six months or less taxable at the general 6 percent rate, while its current discretionary sales surtax chart puts Miami-Dade's surtax at 1 percent with no expiration date against it.

The county half, then, is the 6 percent that the county's tourist and restaurant taxes page splits three ways, into a 3 percent Convention Development Tax, a 2 percent Tourist Development Room Tax and a 1 percent Professional Sports Facilities Franchise Tax.

Three cities break that pattern, so make sure you check yours before you set a rate on your listing. Surfside and Bal Harbour sit outside all three county taxes and charge a 4 percent municipal resort tax instead, which lands them at 11 percent all in. Miami Beach pays the Convention Development Tax but neither of the other two, then adds its own 4 percent tax on room rent, so it comes to 14.

Which is why the Department of Revenue's DR-15TDT rate table records the local option rate as 4 percent for Surfside and Bal Harbour, 7 percent for Miami Beach, and 6 percent for the rest of the county.

Now for the part that saves most hosts a monthly filing. Miami-Dade has agreements with several platforms to collect and remit these taxes, and it names them: Airbnb, HomeAway and its affiliates including Expedia, Vrbo and VacationRentals, and misterb&b. Rent solely through one of those and, in the county's words, you are "not required to register for Convention & Tourist tax."

Take a direct booking, though, or list somewhere without an agreement, and that flips entirely. You then register yourself and remit on everything the covered platforms didn't handle, and nobody splits that bill for you. Airbnb's occupancy tax help page does at least name what it handles, listing the same three county taxes with the Tourist Development and Professional Sports pieces marked as not applying in Miami Beach, Bal Harbour and Surfside.

Once you're registered, you've then got a filing rhythm to keep, and it's monthly and unforgiving. Returns and payment fall due on the 1st and go late after the 20th of the month following each period, a return is required even in a month with no bookings, and the minimum penalty on a delinquent return is $50. Late tax runs 10 percent per 30 days, with interest calculated daily.

Two smaller mechanics are worth knowing about. Filing on time and electronically earns a collection allowance of 2.5 percent of the first $1,200 of tax due, capped at $30, while since October 1, 2025 the county charges $10 for not filing electronically and $10 for not paying electronically.

Watch out for one more thing. The county's page says filings, payments and account management move to a new Convention and Tourist Tax Hub starting September 24, without printing a year next to that date, so confirm which system is live before your first return.

Longer stays fall out of the tax altogether, though only on paper. The exemption covers rent paid by someone who entered a bona fide written lease for continuous residence longer than six months, so the lease itself is what carries you. And if you're already behind, the county's voluntary disclosure programme waives penalties in most cases for taxpayers it hasn't contacted yet. That's a better door than an audit.

Potential Tax Deductions

Florida has no personal income tax, so there's no state return to deduct anything on, which makes the arithmetic friendlier here than in most states. Your deductions live on the federal return instead, where the usual rental expenses apply: cleaning, platform fees, insurance, repairs, utilities and depreciation.

Two Miami-Dade specifics belong in the model rather than in a nasty surprise next spring. The homestead exemption you might lose under section 196.061 is a property tax cost rather than an income tax one, and on a Miami-Dade house it can dwarf a year's deductions. The guest register, meanwhile, doubles as your substantiation for nights rented, so it earns its keep twice over.

Florida Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Those county and city rules only make sense once you see the state law underneath them, because it explains both what Miami-Dade can do and what Miami Beach gets away with. Section 509.032(7)(b) of the Florida Statutes says a local law "may not prohibit vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation rentals." That's the protection you're leaning on.

It carries a grandfather clause, though, and that's the whole story of Miami Beach. The preemption doesn't reach local laws adopted on or before June 1, 2011, which local governments may continue to enforce. Miami Beach's prohibitions predate that cutoff. So it keeps them. Miami-Dade County's ordinance only dates to 2017, which is why all the county can do is regulate.

Everything off the ban and frequency axis stays local either way, mind you, which is how zoning, life safety, building code, noise, parking and waste all remain fair game, and how Section 33-28 got as long as it is without colliding with the statute.

Above all of that sits the state licence, and it reaches every property in the county alike. Section 509.242(1)(c) defines a vacation rental as a condominium or cooperative unit, or a single-family through four-family dwelling, that's also a transient public lodging establishment, so each one needs a licence from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants, renewed annually.

Whether you count as transient at all, though, is the test that was rewritten most recently, and it's the most useful state-level change of the past two years. Under Chapter 2025-113, the 2025 session's SB 606, effective July 1, 2025, a rental is transient once it's rented more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 consecutive days, counted in days rather than calendar months.

The old presumption based on what the operator said they intended is gone. Intent stopped counting. So rent your place four times a year for a fortnight each and you're a vacation rental, whatever you meant to be.

Two legislative pushes that still get quoted as law never became law, and both are worth knowing about because stale 2024 advice is everywhere. The 2024 package that would've added statewide registration, platform regulation and broader preemption passed both chambers as SB 280 and was then vetoed on June 27, 2024. More recently, SB 658 would've required water-safety features at licensure for rentals near pools, and it passed the Senate 37 to 0 in February 2026 before dying in Messages in the House on March 13, 2026.

Neither is in force. So plan around the law as it stands rather than as it nearly was. For the wider picture, our Florida short-term rental guide covers the state framework in full, the Orange County guide shows how differently the Orlando market handles the same statute, and the Collier County guide covers the Naples side of the state.

Does Miami-Dade County Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

A penalty schedule only means something once somebody applies it, and Miami-Dade applies this one along two tracks. The quieter is by far the more effective.

Start with the loud one, which is complaint-driven code enforcement. A neighbour calls 311 or emails the county, the Neighborhood Compliance Division investigates, and operating without a certificate draws a civil penalty of $100 for a first offence, $1,000 for a second within 24 months, and $2,500 for a third and any after that. Those penalties accrue rather than settling at a fixed number, so unpaid fines plus enforcement costs can end up as a lien on the property. The charges stack.

Five percent of everything collected then goes to the county's Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which tells you plainly how the county frames the whole question.

One quirk of Florida law works in a host's favour. Under section 125.69(4)(b), a county code inspector "may not initiate an investigation of a potential violation of a duly enacted code or ordinance by way of an anonymous complaint". The person reporting you has to give a name and address first, unless the inspector believes the violation is an imminent threat to public health, safety or welfare. Don't read that as much protection, mind you, because plenty of complainants are happy to sign their name to it.

The quiet track is the one that closes listings, because Section 33-28(D)(1) puts duties on the platforms themselves and they're specific. A platform may only process payment for a property that holds a valid Certificate of Use, and it has to give the responsible party a dedicated field for the certificate number during listing registration. Then, every month, it hands the Department a report showing what each listing put in that field or whether it was left blank, along with the total listings and the total nights rented.

A platform that complies is shielded from joint and several liability, so the incentive points one way. That report is also why the three-violations rule bites, since the Department notifies the platform the moment a property crosses the line.

What I can't give you is a scoreboard. I found no published county count of certificates issued, citations written or certificates revoked in unincorporated Miami-Dade for 2025 or 2026, so anyone quoting you an enforcement rate is estimating rather than reporting.

The machinery is verifiable even so, and it's unusually complete, right down to a choke point at the payment layer.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Miami-Dade County

Given how much of that turns on facts about your particular parcel, the order of the steps below still matters more than it looks. The early ones tell you whether the later ones are worth doing at all.

1. Confirm your jurisdiction. Check the folio number to see whether the address sits in one of the 34 municipalities or in unincorporated Miami-Dade. Everything downstream turns on that answer.
2. Check the land use designation on the county's land management map. Estate or Low Density residential means the responsible party lives there more than six months a year, which either fits your plan or kills it.
3. Read your association's documents, and remember that a restriction adopted before you bought binds you from the day you took title.
4. Register with the Florida Department of Revenue for sales tax, since you need that number before the county opens a tourist tax account.
5. Apply for the state vacation rental licence from the Division of Hotels and Restaurants, as Dwelling or Condo depending on the property type.
6. Apply for the county Certificate of Use and get the property ready for the inspection. You may offer the rental from the moment you submit, unless the application is later rejected.
7. Take out the Local Business Tax Receipt, county-level in unincorporated areas, both city and county inside a municipality.
8. Sort out the tourist tax. Where every booking comes through Airbnb or the Vrbo family you may need no account, but the moment you take a direct booking you do.
9. Set up the operating requirements on day one: the posted certificate, the guest register, the written guest notice, the 24/7 contact and the pool safety feature.
10. Diarize the renewals. Both the county certificate and the state licence run annually, and no certificate is renewed while a fine or lien sits unpaid.

Who to Contact in Miami-Dade County about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Working through those steps, you'll deal with at least three county offices, so knowing which one owns your question saves a lot of transferred calls.

Start with the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, since it owns the Certificate of Use itself, including what it costs and where your application stands. Its Certificate of Use line is 786-315-2660, and the email is [email protected]. You can also file in person at the county's Permitting and Inspection Center, 11805 SW 26th Street, Miami, FL 33175, which is where the inspections get scheduled from.

Code violations belong somewhere else, whether you're reporting one or answering one. The Neighborhood Compliance Division takes those on 786-315-2552, though the complaint itself usually arrives through the 311 Contact Center first. You reach 311 by dialing 311 inside the county or 305-468-5900 from outside it, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sundays and holidays. Email goes to [email protected], and callers with hearing or speech disabilities can connect through Florida Relay on 711.

Tourist taxes changed hands recently, so send those somewhere else again. The RER Business Section has handled registration and returns since it took over from the Tax Collector on October 1, 2024, and you reach it on 305-375-5550 or at [email protected], with the office at 11805 SW 26th Street, Suite 230, Miami, FL 33175. Cheques now go to the Miami-Dade Tax Collector, 200 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33128, marked for Convention & Tourist, which changed on April 30, 2025. Don't use the old box number.

Two more offices sit outside the county altogether. The state licence comes from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants, while sales tax registration runs through the Florida Department of Revenue.

And where your property sits inside a city, that city's planning or building department decides whether you can rent at all. So start there rather than with the county. Miami Beach, for one, takes code compliance questions on 305-673-7555 and makes approved operators display their Business Tax Receipt and Resort Tax certificate numbers in every advertisement.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Miami-Dade County on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Those official channels tell you what the rules are, and host forums tell you which parts of them people trip over. I should be straight about the sourcing, though, since it shapes how much weight to give any of this. What follows is my read of recurring themes in BiggerPockets threads I opened and read directly. It isn't a survey, and it isn't Reddit, which blocks this kind of research.

The theme that comes up first, and most often, has nothing to do with zoning. It's the association. On a 2022 thread about investing in the Miami Beach area, Jimmy Woodard put it bluntly: "if you're looking in Miami Beach then you're 99% looking at a condo, and a lot of condo HOAs don't allow short-term rentals." That tracks with what Section 33-28 and section 718.110 both imply, and it's the layer first-time buyers skip most often.

The same warning shows up with teeth on a March 2024 thread about listing in Miami Beach. The original poster asked whether there was "anyway to bypass any of the requirements." Kevin Marshburn, an agent in Miami, answered that zoning plus association permission gets you there. Then he described what happens to the ones who try it anyway: "many people ignoring HOA rules and trying to slide by and do shorter term rentals even when buildings don't allow it. They usually get caught and fined."

So verify before you underwrite. A property modelled at nightly rates rarely cash flows as a long-term rental if the short-term plan falls through.

The third theme is a shift in tone rather than a specific complaint. On a December 2025 thread asking whether short-term rentals are still worth it under stricter regulation, Bruce Woodruff answered that "it's just like any other business. Some vacation rentals will make a killing, some will struggle to pay the bills," then added that "now you actually have to be a good businessman." That's the honest version of where Miami-Dade sits in 2026, I think. The rules are knowable and the paperwork is finite, yet none of it rewards a casual operator any more.

So if you want to see how this county's numbers stack up against the rest of the state before you commit to a purchase, the Florida short-term rental market rankings are the place to start.

Whichever corner of the county you end up in, the lesson generalises well past Miami-Dade. In a metro assembled from dozens of small governments, the address decides the business, and the first map you need is a jurisdictional one rather than a market one. Pull the parcel, then the ordinance, then the spreadsheet.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can You Legally Run an Airbnb in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 2026?

In most of the county, yes. Properties in unincorporated Miami-Dade need an annual Certificate of Use under Section 33-28 of the county code, plus a Florida vacation rental licence and a Department of Revenue sales tax registration. In areas designated Estate or Low Density residential, the responsible party also has to live there more than six months a year. Properties inside the county's 34 municipalities follow that city's rules instead, and some of them, Miami Beach in particular, prohibit short-term rentals in most residential zones.

How Much Tax Do You Pay on a Miami-Dade County Short-Term Rental?

Thirteen percent across most of the county on stays of six months or less: 6 percent Florida sales tax, a 1 percent Miami-Dade discretionary sales surtax, a 3 percent Convention Development Tax, a 2 percent Tourist Development Room Tax and a 1 percent Professional Sports Facilities Franchise Tax. Surfside and Bal Harbour come to 11 percent and Miami Beach to 14, since they levy municipal resort taxes in place of some county taxes. Airbnb and the Vrbo and Expedia family collect and remit these for their hosts.

What Happens if You Rent Without a Certificate of Use in Unincorporated Miami-Dade?

The civil penalty is $100 for a first offence, $1,000 for a second within 24 months, and $2,500 for a third and each one after. Fines accrue and can become a lien on the property. A violation fee of $231.90 plus double the cost of the certificate is then added to the price of becoming legal, and three or more violations inside 12 months means no certificate until every fine is cleared and a $10,000 bond is posted.

How Many Guests Can Stay in a Miami-Dade County Vacation Rental?

Two people per bedroom plus two additional people per property, up to 12 overnight, excluding children under three. Between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. the limit rises by four more, to a maximum of 16. The Florida Building Code occupant load overrides those numbers whenever it's lower, and the county separately limits transient occupants to two vehicles at any one time.

Does the Miami-Dade County Short-Term Rental Ordinance Apply Inside City Limits?

No. Section 33-28 applies in the unincorporated areas of Miami-Dade County only, and the county sends owners inside a municipality to their own city government instead. Folio numbers beginning with 30 are the unincorporated ones. Taxes are the exception, since the county's convention and tourist taxes reach most of the county regardless of city lines.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.