Port Orange, Florida

Short-term rentals, defined as rentals of 30 days or less occurring more than three times a year, are legal in the Port Orange area but layered with state, county, and city requirements. At the state level, Florida requires a DBPR vacation rental license for any qualifying unit. Operators must also register with Volusia County and collect the county’s 6.0% Tourist Development Tax; combined with Florida’s 6.5% state sales and transient tax, guests pay roughly 12.5% in transient taxes total.

Secondary sources indicate the City of Port Orange also requires its own city-issued short-term rental license involving a safety inspection and a license fee, renewed annually with a fresh inspection, though the exact city dollar amount was not confirmed from a primary source in the data reviewed.

Zoning is the biggest constraint: short-term rentals are reported to be barred from single-family residential districts and allowed only where hotels and motels are a permitted principal use, generally commercial and mixed-use zones. This restriction is attributed to Volusia County zoning and should be confirmed against Port Orange’s own municipal code for a specific parcel, since the underlying source data flags some uncertainty about the exact city-level mapping.

There is no documented cap on nights per year, and no owner-occupancy or primary-residence requirement was found. Enforcement runs through city building and code administration plus county code compliance, and is rated moderate.