As a Port tenant, you are responsible for registering your business and all businesses that sublease from you with the Manager of Tenant Relations. This helps us ensure that all businesses located at the Port receive the same benefits and responsibilities for keeping the Port a safe, attractive and profitable place to do business.

All new businesses should be registered within 14 days prior to the start of their operation. Click here for the Occupancy Registration Form (ORF). Along with this form, for each sub-lessee please also include a copy of their lease and brief description of business activities. If you have no sub-lessees, note this on your form. An Occupancy Registration Form is still required for your own business. There is no cost for registering or for your certificate.

When a new ORF is submitted, Port Authority personnel do an on-site inspection of the leased premises. Then an Occupancy Registration Certificate is issued and mailed to you. Please distribute certificates to your sub-lessees. Each registered business must display its own certificate in a prominent location. As the Tenant, you will also need to keep a master file of all sub-lessee's ORCs in a central location. (Periodic inspections are made to ensure that ORCs are displayed and allowing a sub-lessee to operate without an ORC on display is a lease violation.)

Renewals. ORCs are valid October 1 through September 30 and, as the Tenant, you should receive renewal notices on or about July 1 of each year. The renewal form should be completed and returned within one week of receipt.

Transfers. If a business moves from one location to another, a written request for a transfer of the ORC must be made by the Port Tenant. An inspection of the new site will be done and a new certificate issued.

Suspension or Revocation. If any holder of an ORC violates the lease agreement between the Canaveral Port Authority and the Port Tenant, the ORC may be suspended or revoked.