Can I buy a waterfront house in North Palm Beach to rent out the house and use the slip myself? The answer to this quesyion was always no. In North Palm Beach, one had to be the occupant of the property to use the adjacent dockage. So that was the Owner, or the Tenant, who lived at that property. But then the Village got sued and the person won. The basics of that case are that the owner of the property bought property in the Village, fixed up the dockage, and put a boat behind the house but he did not live there and the boat was not owned by his Tenant.
“The Court declares that the term “occupant” in Code § 5-81’s definition of Private dock, pier, mooring buoy and floating anchor means the person that occupies title or the premises.”
