2009 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Florida Landlord-Tenant Law [State]¹

Fritz Roka, Michael Olexa, Katherine Smallwood, Leo Polopolus, and Carol Fountain²

Purpose

Defines terms for termination of tenancy by either party.

Program

The Florida Landlord-Tenant Law was amended in 1981 to include housing provided to employees as an incidence of employment with or without the payment of rent. If the dwelling unit is furnished without rent as an incident of employment and there is no agreement as to the duration of tenancy, the duration is determined by the periods for which wages are payable (i.e., weekly, monthly, etc.).

Notice Requirements

A tenancy without a specific duration may be terminated by either party giving written notice as follows:

Table 1.

Tenancy	Notice
Yearly	At least sixty days prior to the end of the annual period.
Quarterly	At least thirty days prior to the end of the quarterly period.
Monthly	At least fifteen days prior to the end of the monthly period.
Weekly	At least seven days prior to the end of the weekly period.

Additional Information

Chapter 83, Florida Statutes

Footnotes

This is EDIS document FE400, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published July 2003, revised December 2009. This information is included in Circular 1200, Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers. First published February 1992 as Circular 1043. Revised December 2002 as Circular 1200. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

Fritz Roka, associate professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Immokalee, FL; Michael Olexa, professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Katherine Smallwood, student, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Leo Polopolus, professor emeritus, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and Carol Fountain, editor, Food and Resource Economics Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

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