Volusia County, FL Animal Ordinances: Dog Leash Laws (2026)

Section 14-48 requires the owner or anyone in possession of an animal to keep it under restraint and control at all times while off the owner's property. The code lists four ways an animal is considered under control: securely confined within a vehicle, whether parked or in motion; caged in the bed of a pickup truck; securely and humanely confined within a house, building, fence, crate, pen or other enclosure with the property owner's consent; or leashed, or otherwise obedient to the commands of a responsible person present with the animal, with any claimed voice-command control subject to being demonstrated on request.

Subsection (b) adds a park-specific rule: at any public park other than the Atlantic Ocean beach, the animal must be leashed, securely restrained in a vehicle, or caged in a truck bed at all times, except within an area of the park specifically designated a leash-free dog park. This restraint duty sits alongside the separate on-property restraint requirement in section 14-47 and the nuisance-animal standard in section 14-49, which independently makes persistent barking, property damage, or roaming onto school grounds a violation. Section 14-48 is enforced by the Animal Services Division and applies only in the unincorporated county; incorporated cities within Volusia, including Deltona and Daytona Beach, enforce their own leash ordinances.