Palm Beach County
Protection Dogs
Palm Beach County has its own animal ordinance, Chapter 4 of the County Code, and it reaches the county’s cities and towns as well, unless a municipal exemption applies. It bans tying a dog out unless you stand there watching it, writes an 85°F cooling rule into law and gives an owner seven days to contest an aggressive or dangerous finding. Its guard-dog permit applies only to “nonresidential” sites. This page reads the county and town texts that the Florida page left out.
Protection Dogs For Sale In Palm Beach County:
Read From The County Code Down
Local rules here come in layers. The county ordinance is the broad one: § 4-1 covers “the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Palm Beach County, unless a municipal exemption applies.” Wellington adopts it outright, and the Town of Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Gulf Stream add chapters of their own; those four are the only municipal codes we read. Beneath them sit a condominium declaration, a wall-height cap and an evacuation order.
State law stays on our Florida page: the bite statute and Bad Dog sign rule, the 2025 dangerous-dog rewrite, Miami-Dade’s guard dogs, the Town’s leash, tag and beach rules and the county pet shelter. We read every local text below on 14 October 2026, at the versions named in the sources. This is not legal or insurance advice; where a reading is only ours we say so, and the people who can answer for your address are the county’s Animal Care and Control Division, your town clerk and a Florida attorney.
One County Ordinance, Several Town Codes:
Two 30-Day Clocks For A New Arrival
Which text governs a street depends on the municipality. Wellington’s code says that chapter 4 of the county code is “adopted and incorporated into this chapter by reference,” so there the county ordinance is the local rule. Other towns publish chapters of their own, and § 4-1(b) adds that nothing in the county chapter relieves anyone “from compliance with any applicable county or municipal regulations.” Our reading: in the three towns we read, a dog can answer to two texts at once, and we found no sentence saying which prevails where they differ.
The tag section carries two clocks for a dog changing hands. Under § 4-11(a)(6) an owner must secure a county rabies and license tag by the dog’s sixth month, within thirty days of “acquiring a dog,” or within thirty days after it “enters the County,” and § 4-11(e)(2) requires a change of ownership, “be it by sale, transfer or otherwise,” to be “reported in writing to the Division by the new owner” within thirty days. Our reading: a dog arriving with its new family has both clocks running that week, and the filing is the new owner’s job; the Division can confirm. The Town’s § 10-41 sets the tag age at “over the age of four months,” where the county says six, so a puppy living in the Town meets the Town’s age first.
The Guard-Dog Permit Is Written
For Nonresidential Sites
Chapter 4 has a permit for guard dogs, and its words are narrower than its name. Section 4-18(a)(1) requires one of a person seeking to use a dog for “defending, patrolling or protecting property or life at any nonresidential establishment in Palm Beach County,” and § 4-2 defines a guard dog as one used “at any nonresidential establishment or which resides on the nonresidential property,” excluding “stock dogs used primarily for handling and controlling livestock or farm animals.” Our reading, and only that: a dog that lives in the house and protects the people in it is not described by those sentences. Miami-Dade’s equivalent, on the Florida page, reads much the same.
The ordinance does not draw the rest of the line. It does not say whether a working farm, a stable or a home with a business in the garage is “nonresidential,” and we found no county guidance that does; ask the Division. This page is written for households. A dog that would work or live at a business site is a different conversation, for the Division and a Florida lawyer before any seller, us included.
One definition deserves a flag: § 4-2’s “guard dog service” is any person, business or corporation that “trains, sells, rents, or leases guard dogs” for use at a nonresidential establishment “in Palm Beach County.” How that reaches a seller based outside the county is for the Division or a Florida lawyer; this page cannot settle it, and it implies nothing about any seller’s paperwork.
Where The Leash Rule Starts:
Property “Exclusive To The Owner”
Section 4-4(a) makes it unlawful for a dog to be “off the owner’s property (which property is exclusive to the owner)” unless a person has it under restraint or control by a leash or another device, “such as a cage, crate or vehicle.” The exemptions are law enforcement dogs, service animals “when necessary to be off leash,” spaces designated for off-leash dogs, and dogs engaged in “herding, hunting, registered field trials, obedience trials or an American Kennel Club or other similarly recognized show or competition.” A personal protection dog is not named, and the text leaves open whether a protection-sport trial is “similarly recognized”; ask the Division before relying on that.
Our reading, not the county’s: property “exclusive to the owner” is narrower than property you share in. A private road in a gated community, a golf-course path, a condominium corridor or a pool deck is not exclusive to any one owner, so the leash goes on at the unit door or the lot line. The ordinance mentions neither associations nor common areas, so this is inference.
The impound power reaches a threat as well as a bite or an attack: a dog that has bitten, attacked or “threatened to bite or attack a human being or domestic animal while off the owner’s property” may be impounded and removed unless it is “confined in a humane manner within a secure building or enclosure and unable to come into contact with any person(s).” The ordinance does not define a threat, so judge a dog by how it behaves among strangers on a lead before you buy, using the checklist in our demonstration guide.
Tether, Shade And The 85-Degree Line:
A Cooling Rule Set Against South Florida Weather
Section 4-24(d) bans tethering a dog to a stationary object “unless such person is with the animal and the animal is at all times visible to such person,” and adds that “Choke or prong type collars shall not be used on an animal while such animal is tethered.” Tethering reaches a house, tree, fence, post, garage or shed, and a chain, rope, cord or leash, with one carve-out: “Tethering shall not include using a leash or lead to walk an animal.” On our reading, a line tied to a post, or a leash looped over a fence, is lawful here only while you stand there with the dog in view.
Subsection (e) sets “a minimum of eighty (80) square feet of open space” for a dog kept outdoors, forty more for each additional dog, and bars keeping dogs outdoors in “hurricanes, tropical storms, and tornados.”
The heat rule is the unusual one. Under subsection (b)(1)a, when the outdoor temperature “rises above eighty-five (85) degrees Fahrenheit,” a dog’s shelter must have “air conditioning, a fan, or another cooling source” to hold it at or below 85°F. NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for West Palm Beach International Airport put the average daily high at 85.7°F in May, 88.3°F in June, 90.0°F in July, 89.9°F in August and 88.0°F in September, falling to 84.7°F in October, with about 74 days a year at 90°F or above. In a normal year, then, the county’s 85°F trigger is met on an ordinary afternoon for five months running. One airport station is not every lot, and the rule keys to the temperature at your address on the day. Our Texas heat guide covers keeping a working dog comfortable; this page adds only what the county code requires.
Three Ways A Dog Gets Classified Here:
County, Town And Gulf Stream Compared
The Florida page sets out the state’s process. The county has its own, with an “aggressive” tier that the state summary there does not mention, and the Town of Palm Beach runs a third. We found no sentence saying how they fit together; which governs after an incident is a question for a lawyer. Apart from the county’s dog-fighting clause, each is written around what a dog has done, not what it was trained to do.
The County: § 4-27
Three tiers. “Aggressive” is a dog that “has severely injured or killed a domestic animal while off the owner’s property,” once being enough; a domestic animal includes equine and bovine animals, goats, sheep, swine, cats, dogs and poultry. “Dangerous” covers an aggressive bite, attack, endangerment or severe injury to a person, a repeat injury to a domestic animal, use in or training for dog fighting, or an unprovoked chase or approach on public ground “in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack” that a sworn statement attests. “Vicious” is a dog already declared dangerous that attacks or bites “without provocation,” or an unclassified dog that kills or severely injures a person, and it can end in destruction.
The clocks. After a written sufficient-cause finding the owner has seven calendar days from receipt to request a Special Master hearing, with an appeal bond, or the finding “shall become final.” The hearing falls five to twenty-one days after the request, and a final classification can go to circuit court within thirty days. For a vicious finding the window is ten business days, after which the text says the dog “shall be humanely destroyed.”
The freeze. While an investigation or appeal runs, “No dog that is the subject of an aggressive or dangerous dog investigation may be relocated or ownership transferred.” A dog moved into the county with “known previous animal-to-human bites,” or classified dangerous elsewhere, is itself open to investigation, and a dog classified dangerous may not be used as a guard dog under § 4-27 or § 4-18(i)(18).
The carve-out. No dog may be declared aggressive or dangerous if it was “protecting or defending a human being within the immediate vicinity of the dog from an unjustified attack or assault.” Our reading: that names a person nearby and an unjustified attack and says nothing about training, so whether an incident fits is for a lawyer. The state’s parallel wording is on the Florida page.
The Town Of Palm Beach: § 10-45
The police decide. A dog is dangerous “according to the records of the town police department,” and one severe injury to a domestic animal off the owner’s property is enough, which the county would call aggressive. Notice is due “within ten days of the reported incident,” and the owner has ten days from notice to appeal to the Town Council, whose determination “shall be final.”
Cover or cash. The owner must show liability insurance or a surety bond of “not less than $100,000.00” or, if insurance is proved unavailable to the Town’s satisfaction, pay a “nonrefundable cash fee in the amount of $1,000.00.” Section 4-27 itself names no liability cover; the state’s own $100,000 requirement after a dangerous-dog finding is on the Florida page. Our insurance guide covers what to ask a broker.
A second attack. Severe injury or death to a person or domestic animal “more than once” means the dog must be “removed from the town or humanely euthanized at his/her sole expense.”
Gulf Stream: §§ 6-3 And 6-4
An attempt counts. An animal is “vicious” if it “has attacked or attempted to attack a person on a public street, thoroughfare or easement in the town,” after a police complaint and written notice to the owner, and must then be “adequately muzzled” on those ways. A bite must be reported to the police or the county health department “within 24 hours” of the incident.
Fences, Gates And Pet Caps In The Town Of Palm Beach:
Containment Is A Zoning Question Too
How a dog is contained on a Palm Beach lot is bounded by how high the Town lets a wall go. Under Chapter 134, walls and fences in front, street-side and street-rear yards “shall not exceed six feet in height,” and anything over four feet needs a three-foot setback from the street line and “a continuous hedge at least three feet in height.” Within ten feet of a side or rear line the cap is seven feet. Gates “shall not exceed a height of two feet above the maximum wall height,” and a driveway gate needs “nine feet wide by 18 feet deep” of driveway in front. The code gives numbers for walls, not dogs, and we offer no height for any breed.
Two pet rules shape a household’s choices. Section 10-3 treats keeping “greater than a total of seven” pets on a premises as “prima facie evidence” of a nuisance, excluding dogs and cats under three months old. Section 10-8 prohibits “the raising or boarding of animals or fowl” unless boarding is “incidental to the operation of a veterinarian’s office.” The code does not name kennels, so we do not say how it treats them; ask the Town before assuming one exists.
Boca Raton, Gulf Stream And Wellington:
Same County, Different Fine Print
Boca Raton. Section 5-39 allows no more than four dogs and cats per premises or dwelling unit, “increased to 6” with an escapeproof wall or fence, which includes the characteristic that “a dog may not reasonably be expected to be able to escape underneath the wall or fence”; puppies under six months are outside the limit. Boca Raton publishes its own animal chapter, and we found nothing saying whether it holds a municipal exemption from the county ordinance; ask the city which text governs a given point.
Gulf Stream. The Town treats keeping more than “a total of six” household pets as prima facie evidence of a nuisance, excluding dogs and cats under three months. Its vicious-animal test is in the comparison above.
We did not read the animal codes of Jupiter, Delray Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Highland Beach or any town not named above. A place appears here only where we read a rule written for it; that is not a statement that we have placed a dog there.
Condominiums, Estates And Winter Residents:
What The Housing Numbers Say About The Buyer
The mental picture of a Palm Beach protection-dog buyer is an estate behind a wall. The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey estimates say the Town is mostly something else: about six in ten of its housing units are in buildings of 20 or more units, one in four is a detached house, and four in ten are used seasonally. Gulf Stream is about half detached houses and a third seasonal; Wellington is nearly the Town’s opposite, with about seven in ten detached and one in twenty seasonal. Small-town estimates carry wide margins (plus or minus 435 on the Town’s unit count alone), so read these as shapes, not decimals.
The seasonal share is a vacancy category, units held for “seasonal, recreational, or occasional use,” so a dog bought for a Palm Beach address may spend part of the year elsewhere, under that state’s rules; the site has pages for New York, New Jersey and others.
For a unit in one of those buildings the declaration matters as much as any ordinance. In Majestic View Condominium Association v. Bolotin (Fla. 4th DCA, 6 April 1983) the declaration allowed “one dog or cat under twenty-five pounds”; the owners’ dog outgrew it, and the court held that the trial court “erred when it failed to enforce the restrictive covenants.” The Fourth District hears appeals from Palm Beach County, though the opinion does not say which county the building was in. It is one 1983 case about one declaration, largely about notice and procedure, and it says nothing about any current one. What it shows is that a weight limit in a declaration is a rule a court has enforced, so read the declaration and its amendments before the dog is chosen.
Zone B, Bridges And 1,244 Miles:
What The Distance Means For A Palm Beach Handover
The Town says on its evacuation page that it “is in Zone B,” and that after a mandatory evacuation and an emergency declaration police will set up roadblocks at each access point or bridge “to prevent access to the island while conditions are unsafe.” County § 4-24(e) bars keeping a dog outdoors in a hurricane. Our reading of the two together: plan the dog’s evacuation before any order, not after it. The county pet shelter is on the Florida page.
The Florida page gives the drive from downtown Dallas to the Town of Palm Beach, about 1,244 road miles. The same query of the public OSRM router (OpenStreetMap data, no live traffic) puts Palm Beach Gardens at 1,234, Jupiter at 1,229, Wellington at 1,250 and Boca Raton at 1,267, or 22.6 to 23.3 hours at the engine’s pace. We ran that query ourselves on 14 October 2026; the coordinates are in the sources note.
Our work starts in North Texas. A dog from us never travels as freight: we do not ship, we bring it by hand, and the family is trained in its own home. Whoever makes the trip, it is about two days each way, so any later visit is a commitment of that size; settle follow-up, deposits and returns in writing, as our out-of-state guide explains; for anyone weighing a flight instead, see our flying guide. In the county, § 4-24(j) wants a dog riding in a vehicle on a public road restrained “at a minimum by a harness with double tethering for dogs,” § 4-24(i) bars leaving it in “any unattended motor vehicle,” and the two 30-day tag and ownership clocks start that same week.
Buying From Us,
Florida Law And Other Cities
Buying From Us
Florida Statewide
County And Town Ordinances, One Court Case And The Weather And Housing Data
Every ordinance is quoted from its Municode page at the version named in each entry; the temperature normals are NOAA’s, the housing shares the Census Bureau’s, the court decision CourtListener’s, and the evacuation page the Town’s own. Where those texts meet a household with a protection dog, the reading is ours, offered to sharpen the questions you take to the Division, your town or a Florida lawyer.
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-1 — Short title; applicability (version of 18 August 2026) — (b), “applicable to the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Palm Beach County, unless a municipal exemption applies”; “nothing in this chapter shall be construed to relieve any person from compliance with any applicable county or municipal regulations.”
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-2 — Definitions — “Aggressive dog” means a dog that “according to the records of the Division has severely injured or killed a domestic animal while off the owner’s property”; “Domestic animal shall mean any animal defined in F.S. § 585.01(10)”; “Guard dog” is a dog “used for the purpose of defending, patrolling or protecting property or life at any nonresidential establishment or which resides on the nonresidential property,” and the term excludes “stock dogs used primarily for handling and controlling livestock or farm animals”; “Guard dog service” is “any person, business, or corporation that trains, sells, rents, or leases guard dogs” for use “at any nonresidential establishment in Palm Beach County.”
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-4 — Dog and cat control — (a), “unlawful for any dog to be off the owner’s property (which property is exclusive to the owner)” unless it is “under the restraint or control of a person by means of a leash or other device such as a cage, crate or vehicle”; the exemptions are law enforcement, service animals “when necessary to be off leash to perform such services,” “a public space designated for dogs to be off-leash such as a dog park or public beach that allows dogs,” and dogs engaged in “herding, hunting, registered field trials, obedience trials or an American Kennel Club or other similarly recognized show or competition”; (d), a dog that “threatened to bite or attack a human being or domestic animal while off the owner’s property” may be impounded and removed from the property unless “confined in a humane manner within a secure building or enclosure and unable to come into contact with any person(s).”
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-11 — Dog and cat rabies/license tags — (a)(1), “any dog six (6) months of age or older”; (a)(4), a tag “clearly visible at all times,” with dogs in a secure enclosure exempt while the tag is fastened to the enclosure; (a)(6), a tag “On or before the date a dog is six (6) months of age,” “Within thirty (30) calendar days of acquiring a dog,” or “Within thirty (30) calendar days after a dog or cat enters the County”; (e)(2), “Any changes of ownership of any dog or cat, be it by sale, transfer or otherwise” “shall be reported in writing to the Division by the new owner within thirty (30) calendar days after ownership changes.”
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-18 — Guard dogs — (a)(1), a guard dog permit for any person who “owns a dog” the person is “seeking to use for the purpose of defending, patrolling or protecting property or life at any nonresidential establishment in Palm Beach County”; (i)(18), “No dog that has been classified as “aggressive” or “dangerous” by the Division shall be used as a guard dog.”
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-24 — Animal care; manner of keeping — (b)(1)a, “When the outdoor temperature rises above eighty-five (85) degrees Fahrenheit” dogs “must be provided air conditioning, a fan, or another cooling source”; (d), “No person shall tether an animal to a stationary or inanimate object as a means of confinement or restraint” “unless such person is with the animal and the animal is at all times visible to such person,” and “Choke or prong type collars shall not be used on an animal while such animal is tethered”; tether includes “tying the animal to any object or structure, including without limitation a house, tree, fence, post, garage, or shed” with a “chain, rope, cord, leash, or running line”; “Tethering shall not include using a leash or lead to walk an animal”; (e), “a minimum of eighty (80) square feet of open space,” “An additional forty (40) square feet” for each additional dog, and “Dogs shall not be maintained outdoors during periods of extreme weather including but not limited to hurricanes, tropical storms, and tornados”; (i)(1), unlawful to “Leave an animal in any unattended motor vehicle”; (j), restrained “at a minimum by a harness with double tethering for dogs.”
- Palm Beach County Code § 4-27 — Aggressive dogs, dangerous dogs and vicious dogs — (a)(1), “No dog that is the subject of an aggressive or dangerous dog investigation may be relocated or ownership transferred”; (a)(2), “No dog may be declared aggressive or dangerous if the dog was protecting or defending a human being” “within the immediate vicinity of the dog from an unjustified attack or assault”; (a)(3), “A dog that is moved into Palm Beach County and that has been involved in known previous animal-to-human bites” “or has been equivalently classified as dangerous in its past jurisdiction(s), shall be subject to investigation and classification by the Division”; (a)(4), a hearing request “within seven (7) calendar days from the date of receipt of the notification of the sufficient cause finding,” a hearing “no sooner than five (5) calendar days and not more than twenty-one (21) calendar days” after the request, and “the determination of the Division shall become final”; (a)(6), a Circuit Court appeal “within thirty (30) days”; (c)(2)g, “A dangerous dog shall not be used as a guard dog as defined in this chapter”; (d)(1), a dog that “has previously been declared dangerous” and “attacks or bites a person or a domestic animal, without provocation”; (d)(5)b, “If the owner fails to appeal within the ten (10) business day period, the dog shall be humanely destroyed.”
- Fla. Stat. § 585.01(10) — “Domestic animal” (2026 Florida Statutes) — “Domestic animal” shall include “any equine or bovine animal, goat, sheep, swine, domestic cat, dog, poultry, ostrich, emu, rhea, or other domesticated beast or bird.”
- Town of Palm Beach Code § 10-3 — Number of domesticated household pets permitted on premises (version of 5 October 2026) — “greater than a total of seven in number as same shall constitute prima facie evidence of creating and maintaining a nuisance”; “The limitation established herein shall not apply to dogs or cats under three months of age.”
- Town of Palm Beach Code § 10-8 — Raising or boarding of animals or fowl — “The raising or boarding of animals or fowl is prohibited except where boarding is incidental to the operation of a veterinarian’s office.”
- Town of Palm Beach Code § 10-41 — Registration; inoculation — (a), the owner of “any dog or cat over the age of four months within the town shall secure a tag or license for each dog or cat” “from the county animal control department.”
- Town of Palm Beach Code § 10-45 — Dangerous dogs — (a), a dangerous dog is one “according to the records of the town police department” that has bitten, attacked or severely injured a person, “Has severely injured or killed a domestic animal while off the owner’s property,” or made an unprovoked menacing chase attested in a sworn statement, and “Whose owner has been notified by the town police department”; (b), written notice “within ten days of the reported incident”; (c), an appeal “to the town council within ten days after receipt of the notice,” and “The determination of the matter by the town council shall be final”; (f), liability insurance or a surety bond “of not less than $100,000.00,” and “In the event that the owner proves to the satisfaction of the town that insurance is not available” “he or she may pay a nonrefundable cash fee in the amount of $1,000.00”; (i), a dog that attacks and causes severe injury or death “more than once” must be “removed from the town or humanely euthanized at his/her sole expense.”
- Town of Palm Beach Code §§ 134-1667 to 134-1669 — Walls and fences (Chapter 134, Article VIII, Division 5) — § 134-1667(a), walls and fences in front, street side or street rear setback areas “shall not exceed six feet in height”; (b), over four feet, “set back three feet from the street property line” with “a continuous hedge at least three feet in height at the time of planting”; § 134-1668, gateposts and gates “shall not exceed a height of two feet above the maximum wall height permitted in this division,” and driveway gates need “nine feet wide by 18 feet deep” in front; § 134-1669, within ten feet of a side or rear property line “shall not exceed seven feet in height.”
- City of Boca Raton Code § 5-39 — Number restricted (version of 11 May 2026) — “more than 4 cats or dogs, or any combination thereof greater than 4”; “the limit established herein shall be increased to 6 dogs and cats” where the yard has an escapeproof wall or fence; “Escapeproof includes the characteristic that a dog may not reasonably be expected to be able to escape underneath the wall or fence”; the limit does not apply to “kittens or puppies under the age of 6 months.”
- Town of Gulf Stream Code § 6-3 — Vicious animals to be muzzled (version of 15 September 2025) — “All vicious animals kept in the town shall be adequately muzzled if they appear on the public streets, thoroughfares or easements”; an animal is vicious “if it has attacked or attempted to attack a person on a public street, thoroughfare or easement in the town,” a complaint has been made to the police department and the owner “has been notified in writing by the police department.”
- Town of Gulf Stream Code § 6-4 — Persons bitten by a domestic animal — the person bitten “or the owner of the animal with knowledge thereof” must report the incident to the police department or the county health department “within 24 hours thereafter.”
- Town of Gulf Stream Code § 6-8 — Number of domesticated household pets — more than “a total of six in number” is “prima facie evidence” of a nuisance, and the limit does not apply “to dogs or cats under three months of age or to fish.”
- Village of Wellington Code § 4-1 — Adoption of county animal regulation ordinance (version of 23 July 2026) — chapter 4 of the county code, “designated as the ‘Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control Ordinance,’” is “hereby adopted and incorporated into this chapter by reference in this section.”
- NOAA NCEI — 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, monthly, station USW00012844 West Palm Beach Intl AP, FL — MLY-TMAX-NORMAL (average daily high, °F): May 85.7, June 88.3, July 90.0, August 89.9, September 88.0, October 84.7; MLY-TMAX-AVGNDS-GRTH090 (days a month with a high of 90°F or more), 74.1 across the twelve months by our own sum.
- U.S. Census Bureau — ACS 2020–2024 5-year, DP04, Palm Beach town, Florida — total housing units 10,507 (margin of error ±435); “Estimate!!UNITS IN STRUCTURE!!Total housing units!!1-unit, detached” 2,685 (±349), about 26%; “Estimate!!UNITS IN STRUCTURE!!Total housing units!!20 or more units” 6,333 (±396), about 60%.
- U.S. Census Bureau — ACS 2020–2024 5-year, B25004, Palm Beach town, Florida — “Estimate!!Total:!!For seasonal, recreational, or occasional use” 4,093 (±387), about 39% of the 10,507 units.
- U.S. Census Bureau — ACS 2020–2024 5-year, DP04, Gulf Stream town, Florida — 598 housing units, 287 one-unit detached, about 48%; B25004 seasonal 198, about 33%.
- U.S. Census Bureau — ACS 2020–2024 5-year, DP04, Wellington village, Florida — 24,497 housing units, 17,417 one-unit detached, about 71%; B25004 seasonal 1,288, about 5%.
- Majestic View Condominium Ass’n v. Bolotin, 429 So. 2d 438 (Fla. 4th DCA, 6 April 1983) — the declaration “prohibits all animals and pets of any kind, except one dog or cat under twenty-five pounds, owned by a unit owner”; the owners’ dog “thereafter grew larger than twenty-five pounds, and subsequently” they “acquired another large dog”; “the trial court erred when it failed to enforce the restrictive covenants of the appellant condominium association”; reversed and remanded. The opinion turns largely on notice and procedure.
- Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal — home page (read 14 October 2026) — the court “handles appeals and extraordinary writ cases from the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Judicial Circuits,” “which are composed of Palm Beach, Broward, St. Lucie, Martin, Indian River, and Okeechobee Counties.”
- Town of Palm Beach — Evacuation and Re-Entry — after a mandatory evacuation and a declaration of a state of emergency, “the Police Department will establish roadblocks at each access point or bridge leading into the Town” “to prevent access to the island while conditions are unsafe”; “The Town is in Zone B.”
- Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), OpenStreetMap data — our own driving-route query from downtown Dallas (32.7767, -96.7970) on 14 October 2026, no live traffic: Town of Palm Beach (26.7056, -80.0364) 1,244 miles, 22.9 hours; Palm Beach Gardens (26.8234, -80.1387) 1,234 miles, 22.7 hours; Jupiter (26.9342, -80.0942) 1,229 miles, 22.6 hours; Wellington (26.6618, -80.2684) 1,250 miles, 23.0 hours; Boca Raton (26.3683, -80.1289) 1,267 miles, 23.3 hours.
We opened each Municode link in a browser on 14 October 2026 and set every quotation beside its text; the routing query ran the same day. The live page wins over this one wherever they differ, and the Census shares are rounded from estimates with stated margins of error.
Read this page as a record of what the ordinances say, not as a description of any Palm Beach County office, staff member or client of ours.
Tell Us The Town, The Building And The Months
Three facts settle most of this page: the municipality, whether the home is a house, a townhouse or a condominium with a declaration, and how many months a year the dog would be in Florida. Send those with who lives there and what you want the dog to do, and say which program you are leaning toward: the fully trained dog or Build Your Own Pup. Our about page shows the PSA trial schedules where both owners are listed as decoys, the one credential here you can check without taking our word for it.