Florida Statute 83.52 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 83
LANDLORD AND TENANT

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83.52 Tenant’s obligation to maintain dwelling unit.—The tenant at all times during the tenancy shall:

(1) Comply with all obligations imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions of building, housing, and health codes.

(2) Keep that part of the premises which he or she occupies and uses clean and sanitary.

(3) Remove from the tenant’s dwelling unit all garbage in a clean and sanitary manner.

(4) Keep all plumbing fixtures in the dwelling unit or used by the tenant clean and sanitary and in repair.

(5) Use and operate in a reasonable manner all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and other facilities and appliances, including elevators.

(6) Not destroy, deface, damage, impair, or remove any part of the premises or property therein belonging to the landlord nor permit any person to do so.

(7) Conduct himself or herself, and require other persons on the premises with his or her consent to conduct themselves, in a manner that does not unreasonably disturb the tenant’s neighbors or constitute a breach of the peace.

History.—s. 2, ch. 73-330; s. 445, ch. 95-147.

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Cases Citing Statute 83.52

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Lane v. Brith, 313 So. 2d 91 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...Originally, none of the parties were represented by counsel. This may help explain why the hand written complaint was filed in the Circuit Court, failed to describe the dwelling unit, and alleged a right to recover possession for the tenants' alleged breach of subsections (6) and (7) of § 83.52, F.S....

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Atlantis Est. Acquisitions, Inc. v. DePierro, 125 So. 3d 889 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 1748642, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 6544

the premises in violation of the lease and section 83.52(6), Florida Statutes. The tenants moved out

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Gina Nugent v. Anne- Laure Michelis (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

attorney’s fees and court costs under Florida Statutes § 83.52 and § 83.55 with § 83.43 as controlling authority

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Florida Bar re Approval of Forms Pursuant to Rule 10-1.1(b), 591 So. 2d 594 (Fla. 1991).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 16 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 765, 1991 Fla. LEXIS 2134, 1991 WL 258213

the lease under these circumstances, see Florida Statute 83.52(2)(a). The delivery of this written notice

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John Porath & Sandra Porath v. Gina Nugent (Fla. 4th DCA 2025).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

remaining two counts alleging a violation of section 83.52, Florida Statutes (2019), and defamation per

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In re Revisions to Simplified Forms Pursuant to Rule 10-2.1(a) of the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar, 50 So. 3d 503 (Fla. 2010).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 35 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 216, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 568, 2010 WL 1488111

obligations to maintain the dwelling unit under Florida Statute 83.52 or material provisions of the rental agreement

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