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designated and approved in the special vacation rental permit. One vehicle parking space shall be required per bedroom or efficiency unit and one boat trailer space per vacation rental unit. (3) No boat docked at a vacation rental property shall be chartered to a person other than registered guests of the vacation rental unit or used for live-aboards, sleeping or overnight accommodations. In addition, recreation vehicles shall not be used for sleeping or overnight accommodations at the vacation rental unit. (4) Occupants shall be prohibited from making excessive or boisterous noise in or about any residential dwelling unit at all times. Noise, that is audible beyond the boundaries of the residential dwelling unit, shall be prohibited between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. weekdays and 11.00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends. (5) All trash and debris on the vacation rental property must be kept in covered trash containers. Each vacation rental unit must be equipped with at least four covered trash containers for such purpose. Owners must post, and occupants must comply with, all trash and recycling schedules and requirements applicable to the vacation rental unit. Trash containers must not be placed by the street for pick-up until 6:00 p.m. the night before pick-up and must be removed from the area by the street by 6:00 p.m. the next day. (6) A tenants agreement to the forgoing rules and regulations must be made a part of each and every lease under F.S. § 509.01 for any vacation rental unit subject to the provisions of this section. These vacation rental regulations governing tenant conduct and use of the vacation rental unit shall be prominently posted within each dwelling unit subject to the provisions of this section along with the warning that violations of any of the vacation rental regulations constitutes a violation of this Code subject to fines or punishable as a second degree misdemeanor and is also grounds for immediate termination of the lease and eviction from the leased premises and criminal penalties under F.S. § 509.151 ("defrauding an innkeeper"), F.S. § 509.141 ("ejection of undesirable guests"), F.S. § 509.142 ("conduct on premises) or F.S. § 509.143 ("disorderly conduct on premises, arrest'). (7) The owner or agent shall require a lease to be executed with each vacation rental use of the property and maintain a guest and vehicle register listing all vacation rental occupants, names, home addresses, telephone numbers, vehicle license plate and watercraft registration numbers. Each lease and this register shall be kept by the vacation rental manager and available for inspection by county code enforcement personnel during business hours. (8) Vacation rental units must be registered, licensed and meet all applicable state requirements contained in F.S. ch. 212 (Florida Tax and Revenue Act) and F.S. ch. 509 (Public Lodging Establishments) as implemented by the Florida Administrative Code, as may be amended. (9) The vacation rental use must comply with all State of Florida Department of Health and State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection standards for wastewater treatment and disposal. (10) All vacation rental units shall have a vacation rental manager, who has been issued a vacation rental manager license by the planning department as provided for in subsection (h) of this section. The vacation rental manager shall reside within and be licensed for that section of the county (Upper, Middle, and Lower Keys) where the vacation rental unit is located and be available 24 hours per day, seven days a week for the purpose of promptly responding to complaints regarding conduct or behavior of vacation rental occupants or alleged violations of this section. Any change In the vacation rental manager shall require written notification to the planning department and notification by certified return mail to property owners within 300 feet of the subject dwelling. (11) Complaints to the vacation rental manager concerning violations by occupants of vacation rental units to this section shall be responded to within one hour The neighbor who made the complaint shall be contacted by telephone or in person and informed as to the results of the actions taken by the manager. A record shall be kept of the complaint and the manager's response for a period Attachment 9 Page 2 171