Historic Preservation in Lake County, FL (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Lake County, Florida.
Verified from official government sources
Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Lake County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Historic-Cultural Monuments
Lake County makes it a crime to dig up, remove, deface or destroy any object of historical, cultural or archaeological value, such as artifacts, arrowheads, pottery or ruins, found on land the digger doesn't own, without the landowner's written permission. Violators face sheriff's office prosecution as well as code enforcement action.
Historical & Archaeological Object Protection, Lake County FL
Significant RestrictionsLake County Code § 14-6(c)
It is a violation of this section for any person to excavate, appropriate, injure, disturb, probe, remove or attempt to remove, deface, damage, loot, destroy, or otherwise alter any object of historical, cultural or archaeological value located on, under or upon any land within Lake County owned or controlled by another person without the express written permission of the owner or their designee.
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