Brevard County, FL Ordinances (2026)

Brevard County permits Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers (MMTCs) in commercial zones under FL §381.986 preemption. State-set 500-foot buffer from schools applies. County cannot ban…

Brevard County requires unincorporated-area homes and businesses to use a licensed collector for trash pickup, unless exempted, with waste hauled to a permitted disposal facility under…

Brevard County bans dumping solid waste or litter on any public or private land in the unincorporated county under Code § 94-183, backed by citations, special magistrate fines…

Unincorporated Brevard requires yard waste kept separate from trash, cut to 4 feet and 50 pounds, with vacant-lot debris barred from curbside pickup.

In unincorporated Brevard County the code fixes set-out timing, not the calendar. Carts go within five feet of the curbline, out by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day and no earlier than…

Brevard County residents get bulky item pickup by calling their collector to schedule it; oversized yard waste over 4 feet, 24 inches, or 50 pounds also needs a special collection…

Unincorporated Brevard residents must recycle in automated county-standard carts, not open bins, and can't overload them past the cart maker's weight limit or risk losing service.

Unincorporated Brevard requires curbside recycling carts for single-family homes, caps cart weight to manufacturer limits, and lets haulers refuse twice-tagged bad bins.

Placing a roll-off or commercial dumpster on unincorporated Brevard property requires a county permit: operating without one is a code violation, and permits run one year from issuance.

Brevard County bans new off-premises signs outright since 2003 and permits digital billboard conversions only to settle eminent domain claims on existing nonconforming billboards.

In unincorporated Brevard County, window signs need no permit but cannot cover more than 50 percent of any individual window: special event, open/closed, and hours-of-operation signs…

Nonilluminated political campaign signs need no permit in unincorporated Brevard County, but they follow the same size, setback and duration limits as other temporary signs and must…

Unincorporated Brevard has barred new off-premises billboards since October 16, 2003, so freeway-facing advertising signs cannot be newly erected anywhere in the county.

Brevard County exempts garage sale signs from sign permits, but directional signs in the road right-of-way are capped at 4 square feet, 4 feet tall, and must come down when the sale…

Unincorporated Brevard requires every stormwater management facility to be designed, built, and maintained under the county's adopted stormwater management criteria, enforced by the…

New construction and substantial improvements in Brevard County's special flood hazard areas must have their lowest floor built at least 12 inches above the base flood elevation…

Residential boat docks in unincorporated Brevard need a county building permit and public works site plan approval, plus they must meet strict size, height, projection and setback…

Brevard County sets its own coastal setback line 25 feet west of the 1981 FDEP control line. No new major habitable structure may be built seaward of it, and Chapter 46 restricts…

Brevard County requires sediment barriers to be built before any land disturbance, soil stabilization within seven days of final grade, and a sediment basin where runoff comes from…

Brevard County requires new construction and substantial improvements in mapped flood hazard areas to sit at least 12 inches above the base flood elevation, with added anchoring and…

Brevard bans standing, sitting, or occupying medians, crosswalks, bike lanes, and arterial or collector roadsides where it interferes with traffic, under the county's 2022 Pedestrian…

Brevard County bans sleeping or camping on any beach, dune, or beach access from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. unless the county has specifically authorized overnight camping there.

In unincorporated Brevard County, sounding a horn for no legitimate reason, running an engine without a functioning muffler, or driving a vehicle so out of repair it rattles or grinds…

Brevard County exempts landscape maintenance equipment, including leaf blowers, from noise limits only between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.; running gas blowers outside that window loses the…

Brevard County caps outdoor amplified music at special events near homes to 8 a.m.–10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 8 a.m.–midnight Friday and Saturday, per the special event noise…

Industrial land in unincorporated Brevard County is capped at 75 dBA (80 dBC) by day and 65 dBA (70 dBC) at night, measured at the property boundary, under County Code § 46-131.

Unincorporated Brevard bars construction tools and equipment before 7 a.m. or after 8 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, and bans them entirely on Sunday.

Brevard County caps outdoor sound at 55 dBA (60 dBC) on residential land and bans plainly audible noise disturbances between 10:01 p.m. and 6:59 a.m. across the unincorporated county.

Brevard County treats a dog, cat, or other pet barking, howling, or whining for 15 straight minutes without noise-baffling shelter as a nuisance, punishable by a $500 civil fine per…

Brevard County sets maximum wrecker fees by resolution and forces a one-hour vehicle release window on nonconsensual tows from private property.

Brevard County requires adult entertainment establishments to be licensed and keeps them at least 1,500 feet from schools, churches, day cares, other such businesses, and residentially…

Unincorporated Brevard requires a county license before any massage or leisure spa business opens, with an annual $250 fee and inspections: separate from state massage therapist…

Brevard County requires pawnbrokers to hold a business tax receipt, but won't issue one until the applicant proves current state registration as a secondhand dealer under Florida's…

Pawnbrokers, precious metals dealers, and secondhand dealers in unincorporated Brevard County operate under Florida Statutes chapter 538, part I, which County Code section 26-3 adopts…

Unincorporated Brevard requires a conditional use permit and acreage minimums before anyone may keep Class I or Class II wildlife or venomous reptiles.

Brevard County treats every animal grooming establishment as an 'animal care facility' that must register with Animal Control and pass a site inspection before it can open, county-wide…

Every cat or dog adopted, sold, or released from a Brevard County animal shelter must be sterilized first, or the new owner must post a refundable deposit and sterilize it within 30…

Brevard County requires every cat to carry a rabies vaccination and county registration tag, but sterilized, vaccinated, ear-tipped community cats are exempt from licensing and…

Brevard County does not regulate dogs by breed. Florida law bars that statewide. Instead, county code classifies individual dogs as "dangerous" based on documented bites, attacks, or…

Brevard County requires veterinary hospitals, clinics, and pet kennels in unincorporated areas to sit at least 300 feet from the nearest residence on a minimum two and one-half acre…

Brevard County's own code has no blanket ban on feeding wildlife. Section 14-57(f) makes it unlawful to feed any animal, wild or domesticated, in a way that creates a nuisance…

Brevard County bans pet stores from selling commercially bred dogs and cats, requiring animals instead come from shelters, rescues, hobby breeders, or USDA-licensed breeders under an…

Brevard County bans horses, cattle, goats, pigs and other livestock outside agriculturally zoned land, but allows up to four hens per half-acre lot in single-family residential zones…

Brevard County requires owners to keep dogs under leash, fence, or tether at all times; letting a dog run at large in unincorporated areas draws civil fines starting at $55.

Section 62-2108 makes it unlawful to keep bees on premises not zoned for agricultural use. Beekeeping is listed as a permitted use in the county's productive agricultural and…

Unincorporated Brevard requires a building permit before you construct, alter, repair, move, or demolish a structure, or touch its electrical, gas, mechanical, or plumbing systems.

Unincorporated Brevard requires a permit before any electrical system is installed, altered, or replaced, under the county's adopted Florida Building Code administrative chapter.

Brevard County requires seven staged building inspections plus separate electrical, plumbing, mechanical and gas checks before a Certificate of Occupancy issues in unincorporated areas.

Unincorporated Brevard adopts Florida's child care statutes by reference and layers on local staffing, transportation, and playground rules enforced with fines up to $500 a day.

Unincorporated Brevard requires a permit before any plumbing system is installed, altered, or replaced, under the county's adopted Florida Building Code administrative chapter.

Brevard County requires automatic sprinklers and alarms in new buildings three stories or taller, over 35 feet, or exceeding 15,000 square feet per floor in unincorporated areas, not…

Brevard County requires a special event permit for parades and block parties in the unincorporated county, with route maps, a state DOT road closure permit for state highways, and…

Brevard County requires a Parks and Recreation permit for any park gathering of 50 or more people, exclusive facility use, organized athletics, or amplified music.

Fairs, festivals and carnivals in unincorporated Brevard County need a special event permit from the building official, with events drawing 100 or more attendees required to submit…

A Brevard County production permit for motion and still photography replaces every other required county permit: once the film commissioner issues it, no separate special-event…

Closing a public road in unincorporated Brevard for a parade or block party requires a special event permit, 72-hour notice to affected property owners, street barricades, and a 10 mph…

Brevard County caps digital billboard brightness at 0.3 foot-candles above ambient light and requires an automatic dimming sensor. All illuminated off-premises signs must be shielded…

Unincorporated Brevard requires cut-off, shielded fixtures on any site plan and caps light spilling onto neighboring residential land at 0.2 footcandles.

Unincorporated Brevard requires site-planned properties to shield outdoor lighting: cut-off fixtures with house-side shields near property lines, no glare crossing the boundary, and…

Homes built in unincorporated Brevard County must sit above the street or, in FEMA flood zones, at least 12 inches above the base flood elevation before the county issues a certificate…

After a declared disaster, unincorporated Brevard residents must stack storm debris neatly at the road's edge, sorted by type, for county pickup: misplaced debris becomes the owner's…

Brevard County requires a mandatory roofing inspection before a certificate of occupancy issues, with two separate inspections, dry-in and final, for tile, slate, and similar roof…

Brevard County's property maintenance code lets owners install storm shutters or panels on occupied homes only temporarily, during an actual storm threat, and requires one exterior…

Brevard County bans household disposal of hypodermic needles and lancets in trash containers or waste facilities; residents must use county-designated home-user sharps collection sites…

Brevard County requires anyone reporting a suspected code violation to give their name and address: anonymous complaints cannot trigger an investigation except for imminent health…

Filming on any Brevard County-owned street, park, courthouse, or government center requires a production permit from the film commissioner before shooting begins; permits also apply to…

Filmmakers who want to close a public street or sidewalk in unincorporated Brevard must state the closure and its duration in their county production permit application, filed with the…

Unincorporated Brevard County developers can get a 25 percent density bonus when at least 30 percent of a project's units are affordable housing, under Code Section 62-6305.

Bars and nightclubs in unincorporated Brevard County can't blast music outward to attract customers, and their sound systems don't get the county's usual equipment noise exemption…

Residential air conditioning and pool pump equipment is exempt from Brevard County's noise ordinance as long as it operates in reasonable mechanical condition with standard…

Brevard County bans loading and unloading boxes, crates, containers, or building materials during nighttime hours (10:01 p.m.–6:59 a.m.) if it creates a noise disturbance across a…

Brevard County treats amplified bass that shakes walls as regulated noise, capping it at 65 dBC by day and 60 dBC by night on residential property, with a separate 300-foot…

Brevard County exempts building-mounted business generators from its noise-article decibel limits if properly maintained and screened, but portable or residential generators still must…

Brevard County's Historical Commission can mark forts, Indian mounds, and other historic sites with monuments, tablets, or markers anywhere in the county, acting on its own initiative…

Brevard County bans smoking and tobacco use in youth athletic areas, playgrounds, indoor facilities, and any posted no-smoking area within county parks and recreational lands, plus…

Brevard County bans drinking or carrying an open alcoholic beverage within 100 yards of any public-facing business in unincorporated areas, though not near private homes.

Brevard County bans loitering, standing, or parking within 50 feet of the county jail at 860 Camp Road in Sharpes; the county has no general public loitering ordinance elsewhere in the…

Homes in unincorporated Brevard County's standard single-family zones, RU-1-7, RU-1-9, RU-1-11 and RU-1-13, cap out at 35 feet, measured from finished grade to roofline.

In unincorporated Brevard County, minimum yard setbacks are set per zoning district; the RU-1-9 single-family classification requires 20-foot front and rear setbacks, 7.5-foot side…

Brevard County caps building lot coverage at 40 percent in its attached single-family, multi-family and residential-professional zoning classifications; conventional single-family lots…

Brevard County limits junked or abandoned vehicles on unincorporated residential and agricultural lots to one, fully screened or garaged, and bans them outright on public property and…

Brevard County bans parking or storing commercial motor vehicles and heavy equipment on residential lots or the adjoining street right-of-way, unless the site carries specific…

Brevard County requires off-street loading berths sized 14 by 30 feet, bans loading docks on street-facing frontages in commercial and industrial zones, and scales the number of…

Brevard County bans parking in front of driveways and requires vehicles on unincorporated streets to park within 12 inches of the curb, facing the direction of traffic.

Brevard County caps yard-stored RVs and boats at two per property on lots ½ acre or smaller, limits the front yard to just one, and requires driveway parking perpendicular to the…

Brevard County allows home occupations by right in every residential zoning classification, but caps them to one non-family employee, bans on-site sales, and requires all work stay…

The Brevard County code has no cottage food ordinance. A food business run from a house is treated as a home occupation under section 62-1155, and section 54-126 requires a county…

Brevard County adopts Florida's child care statutes and rules by reference in Section 26-70 and then layers on its own requirements. Family day care homes must be licensed, and the…

Brevard County caps client traffic from an unincorporated-area home occupation at what two off-street parking spaces can handle, and bars doctors, therapists, and other treatment-based…

Brevard County caps home occupation signage in unincorporated areas at one square foot: a single nonilluminated window or wall sign, with no freestanding, lit, or portable signs…

Brevard County confines mobile food carts to residentially zoned roads with speed limits of 25 mph or less, bans roadside and farmer's stands from the right-of-way entirely, and…

Brevard County requires mobile food vendors, trucks selling ready-to-eat food to pedestrians, to hold a business tax receipt and restricts operation to residentially zoned roads posted…

In unincorporated Brevard, a mobile food vendor may sell from the public road right-of-way only on residential streets posted 25 mph or slower, and must keep moving except to make a…

Unincorporated Brevard County requires a land clearing permit before removing a protected tree, hardwoods 10 inches dbh or more (1.5 inches on the barrier island) and pines 14 inches…

New development in unincorporated Brevard must plant at least 50% native trees and 50% native or Waterwise-listed shrubs, with invasive species barred from credit.

Grass and weeds on unincorporated Brevard County lots can't exceed 10 inches in height under the county's excessive overgrowth ordinance, enforced as a public nuisance by code…

Unincorporated Brevard limits landscape irrigation to set days by address parity and bars watering between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. year-round under Sec. 46-424.

Brevard County calls short-term rentals resort dwellings, meaning homes rented for under 90 days. Where they are allowed, the number of people occupying one at any given time cannot…

Brevard County caps noise from short-term "resort dwellings" in unincorporated areas at the residential decibel limit in Sec. 62-2271, and bars audible music, TVs or stereos at the…

Brevard County requires one off-street parking space per bedroom for resort dwellings (short-term rentals) in unincorporated areas, and occupants may not park on the street.

Anyone who rents out living quarters or operates a vacation rental in unincorporated Brevard County must first obtain a tourist development tax account from the county before renting…

Brevard County's code enforcement special magistrate can suspend a resort dwelling's business tax receipt for up to 30 days on a first violation, then revoke it entirely on a repeat…

Brevard County levies a 5% tourist development tax, 2% plus three added 1% increments, on vacation rentals leased for six months or less, collected from the guest and remitted through…

Brevard County requires private pools, spas and hot tubs holding more than 24 inches of water to be fully enclosed by a barrier at least 48 inches high, with self-closing and…

Brevard County adopts the Florida Building Code and requires a permit before pool construction. Pools get two inspections, and any private pool holding more than 24 inches of water…

Brevard County can declare a structure an unsafe building, order occupants to vacate immediately, and require repair or demolition when a building poses a fire, collapse, or health…

Brevard County bans excessive overgrowth on vacant unimproved lots in unincorporated areas, capping grass and weeds at 10 inches and treating taller growth within 25 feet of…

Brevard County's code has no drone-specific ordinance. What does apply to commercial work is section 26-25, which requires a film-commission production permit for commercial…

Brevard County's code has no ordinance that names drones or unmanned aircraft. The closest local rule is section 78-106: you may not take off in or land any aircraft in a county park…

The Brevard County code contains no general juvenile curfew for unincorporated areas. The only age-based hours rule is section 74-57, which limits when a juvenile rave club may…

Unincorporated Brevard County parks close at posted hours, and it's unlawful to enter or remain after closing once hours are posted or you're told to leave by staff or law enforcement.

Brevard County has no door-to-door solicitor permit or background-check program in its code. Anyone selling in the unincorporated county needs a local business tax receipt, and…

Fences and walls in unincorporated Brevard County top out at six feet in residential zones and eight feet in agricultural, commercial or industrial zones, with a four-foot cap in front…

Unincorporated Brevard limits fences to wood, non-corrodible metal wire, ornamental iron, or PVC, and bans barbed and razor wire on residential fencing.

Unincorporated Brevard requires a construction permit before building or majorly repairing a fence, with plans reviewed against zoning setbacks and a $34 plan-review fee due before the…

Unincorporated Brevard County requires every fence owner to keep their fence from becoming dilapidated or structurally unsound, and pre-existing fences must meet full code standards…

Unincorporated Brevard requires a permit, engineered anchoring, and utility hookups before a tiny house on wheels can be used as a permanent home.

Brevard County allows one accessory dwelling unit per lot in unincorporated areas, but only with an approved conditional use permit, density compliance, and a cap of 50 percent of the…

In unincorporated Brevard County, a detached accessory building or shed can't exceed 600 square feet or 50 percent of the principal home's living area, whichever is greater, under the…

Unincorporated Brevard caps garage sales at 48 hours per sale, with only two sales allowed per lot in any 12-month period.

Brevard County designates large, rare, or historically significant trees as protected "specimen trees", hardwoods 24 inches dbh or larger, and bars their removal on lots over 1.25…

Brevard County protects hardwoods 10+ inches dbh, pines 14+ inches dbh, and specimen trees 24+ inches dbh from removal during development in unincorporated areas; a land clearing…

Brevard County follows FL Chapter 83 (Residential Landlord-Tenant Act). No just-cause eviction requirement in Florida. 15-day notice for month-to-month non-renewal; 3-day for…

The county's property maintenance code requires owners of unincorporated Brevard rental housing to keep buildings safe and sanitary, working plumbing, sound roofs, secure doors and…

Brevard County levies a five percent tourist development tax, 2% plus three added 1% increments, on hotel, motel, and vacation rental stays of six months or less, countywide including…

Brevard County requires removal of IFAS-listed nonnative invasive plants before any certificate of occupancy is issued, plus permanent control of regrowth afterward, under…

Bona fide farm operations on Brevard County agricultural land are exempt from the county noise ordinance under Florida's Right to Farm Act, so routine farm sounds cannot draw a…

Unincorporated Brevard protects working farms through PA and AGR zoning districts, which permit agricultural pursuits by right and set acreage and setback rules that buffer farms from…

Brevard County bans campfires, bonfires and open burning in unincorporated areas whenever the Keetch-Byram Drought Index hits 500 or the county chair declares a burn ban: violators…

Brevard County bans the use, sale and storage of fireworks except as Florida Statutes 791.02, 791.04 and 791.07 allow or under a county permit. Sellers need a permit from the county…

Brevard County bans campfires, bonfires and trash burning whenever the county's drought index hits 500 or the county chair declares a ban, with violators facing a $500 fine or 60 days…

Installing solar panels in unincorporated Brevard County requires a permit pulled by a contractor holding the county's own Solar Contractor certificate of competency, issued separately…

Florida Statute §163.04 prohibits HOAs from preventing solar panel installation. HOAs may determine placement but cannot effectively ban solar or impose requirements that reduce…

Every business in unincorporated Brevard must hold a local business tax receipt classified by activity type, with each classification capped at a flat $37.00 tax.

Building a driveway, sidewalk crossing, or utility line into a county right-of-way in unincorporated Brevard requires a right-of-way/easement permit from Public Works before work…

Unincorporated Brevard County restricts reclaimed (reuse) water to irrigation, fire protection and similar outdoor uses under Chapter 110: never for drinking, indoor use, or filling…