Largo, FL Animal Ordinances: Dog Leash Laws (2026)

City Code § 5-1(a) makes it unlawful for anyone who owns, harbors, keeps or maintains a domestic, livestock or farm animal to let it wander the public streets, and any animal found wandering at large or tied on a public street beyond a temporary period may be impounded. Subsection (b) separately bars letting an animal run at large and trespass onto another person's property. Section 5-1(c) clarifies that walking a leashed dog in public areas is not itself a violation of the at-large prohibition, and section 5-1(d) sets the park-specific rule: any dog in a city park must be restrained by a leash under the owner's or custodian's physical control, except within a park or portion of a park the city has designated as a dog park, where dogs may be off-leash.

The chapter's definitions section describes "at large" as any animal off its owner's property and not under restraint or physical control of a competent person, and "restraint or physical control" as an animal controlled by a leash, confined to a vehicle, or kept within its owner's property limits. An animal found at large may be impounded by the city's animal control function under this article.