Gov. Rick Scott has made official a controversial new law that prohibits local governments from restricting short-term vacation rentals.
The law, signed by Scott yesterday, is one of the first of its kind in the country to enforce the rights of residential property owners who want to rent by the day or week, a practice that has grown in Florida with the downturn in the housing market as owners try to rent property they cannot sell.
Under House Bill 883, pushed through by the growing vacation-rental industry, counties and cities that do not already have rules against residential vacation rentals — defined as those that are rented for 30 days or less more than three times a year — will lose the ability to regulate them.
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