Palm Beach County Landlord Compliance Guide · 2026 · Notice Requirements

The Notice Rules Palm Beach County Landlords Must Follow in 2026 — State Law, HB 615, and What the Repealed Ordinance Left Behind

By Jean Taveras, Broker-Owner, Atlis Property Management  ·  Updated May 2026

Palm Beach County landlord notice rules changed three times between 2022 and 2025 — a county ordinance, a state preemption that killed it, a notice-floor increase, and an email delivery law. The compliance failures Atlis encounters most often managing 600+ Palm Beach County units in 2026 are not from landlords who ignore the rules. They are from landlords operating on 2022 assumptions. Every statute cited below has been verified against current Florida Statutes and PBC code.

1. What Happened to Ordinance 2022-027 — The County’s 60-Day Notice Rule

On September 13, 2022, Palm Beach County enacted Ordinance 2022-027 requiring 60 days’ written notice before: (1) non-renewing an annual lease, (2) terminating a month-to-month or quarterly tenancy, and (3) raising rent by more than 5%. Penalties ran $1,000/$5,000/$15,000 per day for first, repeat, and irreversible violations respectively. A Palm Beach County court upheld the ordinance’s validity in South Bay One, LLC v. Wilson shortly after enactment.

The ordinance survived less than a year. Florida HB 1417, effective July 1, 2023, created §83.425, expressly preempting to the state all regulation of residential tenancies under Chapter 83. Its legislative analysis stated this rendered all local landlord-tenant ordinances throughout Florida null and void. Ordinance 2022-027 was among approximately 46 local ordinances voided statewide. Palm Beach County formally repealed it via Ordinance 2023-033 in September 2023.

2. The Current Florida Notice Framework: Three Statutes Palm Beach County Landlords Must Know

§83.575 — Annual Lease Non-Renewal (Triggered Only If Lease Has a Notice Clause)

Section 83.575 governs termination of fixed-duration leases — your standard 12-month agreement. The critical nuance: §83.575 only operates if the lease contains a notice provision. If the lease requires the tenant to give notice before vacating, the same provision must require the landlord to give equivalent notice of non-renewal. The window: no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days before the lease end date.

If the lease is silent on notice, it simply expires on its end date. A tenant who stays after expiration with the landlord’s permission becomes a month-to-month tenant under §83.57, requiring a new 30-day termination notice. HB 1417 also added a 30-day minimum to §83.575; lease templates written before July 2023 with sub-30-day notice provisions contain unenforceable clauses.

§83.57 — Month-to-Month and At-Will Tenancy Termination

Section 83.57 governs at-will tenancies — month-to-month arrangements, oral leases, and fixed-term leases that have converted after expiration. Either party terminates a month-to-month tenancy by giving at least 30 days’ written notice prior to the end of the applicable monthly period (raised from 15 days by HB 1417). A year-to-year at-will tenancy requires 60 days.

The practical point most landlords miss: when a fixed-term lease converts to month-to-month, §83.57 governs termination — not §83.575. A proper 30-day notice served to the end of a monthly period is required; an informal message to vacate starts no legal clock.

§83.505 — Email Delivery Now Valid, With Conditions (Effective July 1, 2025)

Florida HB 615, effective July 1, 2025, created §83.505, allowing email delivery of any Chapter 83 notice — including non-renewal and termination notices — provided both parties have signed a separate written addendum designating their email addresses. Without the signed addendum, email delivery is legally invalid; the notice clock never starts.

Source: Florida Statutes §83.575, §83.57, §83.505 (2025). Verified May 2026.

3. The Most Common Notice Compliance Failures Atlis Sees in 2026

Failure 1 — Operating Under the Repealed Ordinance

Landlords who built a 60-day rent-increase notice process for Ordinance 2022-027 never received notification the ordinance was repealed in September 2023. They are over-noticing on rent increases while potentially missing current state-law requirements — operating on county rules not in force for nearly three years.

Failure 2 — Missing the §83.575 Addendum Requirement

Lease templates predating July 2023 often set one-directional notice provisions — tenant must give 60 days, landlord unspecified. Under current §83.575, both directions must be equal. A one-directional clause is a compliance vulnerability in any holdover proceeding where the tenant challenges the landlord’s notice.

Failure 3 — Mishandling the Fixed-to-Month-to-Month Conversion

When a fixed-term lease expires and the landlord accepts rent, a month-to-month tenancy is created by law. A notice based on the expired lease’s clause — not a proper §83.57 monthly-period notice — is legally defective; an eviction will fail on the notice alone.

Failure 4 — Emailing Non-Renewal Notices Without a §83.505 Addendum

Since HB 615 (July 1, 2025), email delivery of statutory notices is valid — with a signed §83.505 addendum. The 2026 failure Atlis is tracking: landlords who began emailing non-renewals without the addendum. Without it, the notice is invalid, the clock never starts, and the staying tenant becomes a holdover requiring the full §83.57 process over again.

Failure 5 — Sending Rent Increase Notice Without Understanding What State Law Requires

The repealed ordinance required 60 days’ notice for increases over 5%. State law has no equivalent for fixed-term leases; renewal at a higher rate is offered within the lease’s notice period. For month-to-month tenancies, a rent increase requires 30 days’ notice under §83.57. The 5% threshold is gone. Landlords operating on either assumption are wrong.

“The five compliance failures above all trace back to the same problem: the notice rules changed three times in three years, and most landlords received no formal notification of any of those changes. Staying current is the landlord’s responsibility. Operating on 2022 rules in a 2026 legal environment is not a defensible position.”

— Jean Taveras, Broker-Owner, Atlis Property Management · FL Broker License CQ1071712

4. How State Preemption, Remaining Local Rules, and Federal Law Interact in 2026

Florida §83.425 — What Preemption Means in Practice

Florida §83.425 expressly preempts all regulation of residential tenancies to the state. No Palm Beach County municipality can enact or enforce any Chapter 83 ordinance — notice periods, lease terms, rent increase notification requirements. Any municipality reinstating Ordinance 2022-027’s 5% rent increase rule after 2023 would be enacting an unenforceable ordinance.

One area that remains locally regulated: short-term rental licensing and zoning. HB 1417 preempts Chapter 83 landlord-tenant matters; it does not preempt municipalities’ land use authority. Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens maintain short-term rental regulations that operate independently of HB 1417 preemption.

HOA Governance — The Third Layer

Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens governed communities add a third governance layer under Chapter 720 — minimum lease terms, rental transaction caps, community-specific communication requirements. These are not Chapter 83 matters; HB 1417 preemption does not apply to them. Atlis reviews HOA governing documents for every managed property.

Federal Law — Fair Housing and FTC Notice Developments

Federal Fair Housing Act compliance applies to all Palm Beach County landlords regardless of state preemption. A non-renewal notice valid under §83.575 remains actionable under the FHA if the non-renewal decision is discriminatory. Atlis applies documented, consistently-applied renewal criteria so that non-renewal decisions are made on legitimate business grounds and are FHA-defensible.

Frequently Asked Questions — Palm Beach County Notice Rules 2026