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Treasure Island short-term rental rules

Treasure Island has no short-term rental permit and no posted-notice rule. What it has is zoning: short stays (a "tourist dwelling") are allowed only in some districts, and the city watches how often the guests change.

Checked on Nov 11 2026 against the official pages below

The three things to know

PERMIT

No city rental permit. Short stays are allowed in the CG, RFM-30, RFH-50 and PR-MU districts, not in RU-75 or RM-15. You pay the city business tax each year by number of units ($24.31 for one) and hold a Florida DBPR license. Not sure of your zone? Ask Community Development, (727) 547-4575 ext. 230.

DOOR NOTICE

No city posting rule. Florida still wants the state license displayed or shown on request, and the state's human trafficking sign posted (see Florida). The card below covers the license.

TAX

6% Pinellas County tourist tax plus 7% Florida sales tax: 13%, says the Tax Collector. It lists Airbnb and VRBO as collecting the county tax, and says the owner is liable if a platform doesn't.

Print the door notice

Treasure Island doesn't require a posted notice. This prints a state license card for the door, which is what Florida asks for, with your city business tax number and the city's sea turtle lighting dates.

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TREASURE ISLAND RENTAL

State license

Licensed by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants.

    License display: s. 509.241(3), Florida Statutes. Turtle lighting dates: Treasure Island City Code ch. 68. Card made free at headedin.com/stay/rules/treasure-island/

    Prints one letter page. Put it where guests come in. Post the state's human trafficking sign where your cleaners will see it.

    What the rules say

    Where short stays are allowed
    "Tourist Dwellings are not permitted by City Code to be in the RU-75 or RM-15 Zoning Districts."City of Treasure Island, short-term rental information
    • Allowed: the CG, RFM-30, RFH-50, PR-MU Core and PR-MU Gulf Boulevard districts, with no limit on how often guests change.
    • How the city decides: a home used "primarily on a daily, weekly, monthly or seasonal basis" is a tourist dwelling (sec. 68-2). In RU-75, more than two changes of guests in a year presumes it is one. The city's page also counts platform bookings "regardless of the length of stay."
    • Downtown PR-MU: no tourist units on the ground floor.
    • Heads up: the city's page and the code text don't match on the counts, and the city adopted a rewrite of its zoning chapter on Oct 6 2026 that isn't in the online code yet. Check with Community Development before you rely on a number.
    What you do need
    • A Florida DBPR vacation rental license (see Florida).
    • The city business tax every year, by units: $24.31 for one, $6.04 each for 2 to 5, $4.83 each over 5, $24.31 each condo-hotel unit (sec. 46-103).
    • Pinellas tourist tax registration (below).
    • We found no city registration, inspection, guest cap, local-contact or ad-number rule in the code.
    Noise and sea turtles
    • Noise: the city adopts the county noise ordinance and bans "unreasonably loud and raucous noise" (ch. 18, art. III).
    • Sea turtles: "No artificial public or private light source shall illuminate where it may deter adult female sea turtles from nesting or disorient hatchlings… during May 1 — October 31."
    Taxes
    "In Pinellas County, there is also 7% sales and use tax collected by the Florida Department of Revenue, totaling 13% tax."Pinellas County Tax Collector FAQ
    • 6% county tourist development tax on stays of six months or less; file monthly or quarterly, zero returns too.
    • The county lists Airbnb (since Dec 1 2015) and VRBO and its sister sites (since Oct 1 2018) as collecting it: "if the agent fails to collect and pay the tax, the owner will be held liable."

    House rules go in your listing

    For bookings made from Nov 20 2026, Airbnb wants every house rule in the listing itself; signs in the house can only repeat them. This notice only carries what Treasure Island requires, so it adds no new rules. Put quiet hours, parking and the rest in your listing first.

    Official sources, read Nov 11 2026

    Plain-words summary, not legal advice. Rules and fees change, and the official page always wins. Checked Nov 11 2026.

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