Volusia County, FL Ordinances (2026)

Seasonal string lighting displayed with yard figurines is exempt from Volusia County's sign permit rules under Sec. 72-298(1)b, but only if bulbs stay at seven watts or under and the…

Off-premises signs, billboards facing federal-aid primary and interstate highways, may go up only in the B-6, I-1 and I-2 zoning classifications under Sec. 72-298(9), and even there…

Digital signs are tightly restricted in Volusia County. Sec. 72-298(8)b.6 confines electronic message centers to commercial and industrial zoning, caps the electronic face at 34 square…

Volusia County exempts window signs from permitting and size limits everywhere in the unincorporated county under Sec. 72-298(1)g. The one carve-out sits inside the Enterprise…

Volusia County bans selling, displaying or otherwise commercially using any county right-of-way or public land without prior written consent under Code § 94-1. The only carve-out lets…

Volusia County requires mobile food dispensing vehicles operating in unincorporated areas to get a conditional-use or special-exception permit before setting up, caps daily operation…

Volusia County caps residential boat docks at 750 square feet, including any boathouse, and limits walkways to eight feet wide. Docks may rise no more than 15 feet above the high-water…

Volusia County bars anyone from discharging polluted stormwater into its MS4 storm sewer system. Industrial, commercial and construction sites must treat runoff on-site under state or…

Volusia County's 47 miles of Atlantic coast are governed by the FDEP Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) per F.S. §161.053. Sea turtle lighting ordinance enforces F.S. §161.163…

Volusia County requires a permit before anyone clears land, drains it, or changes a structure's size or use in the unincorporated county, because those activities can disrupt…

Structures built in a Volusia County flood hazard area must sit above the base flood elevation, not just at it. County Code § 72-756(c)-(d) requires flood-damage-resistant materials…

Any development in a flood hazard area of unincorporated Volusia County, from grading and fences to home additions, needs a permit before work starts. County Code § 72-745(a) requires…

Volusia County has no standalone massage-establishment license; the state's Board of Massage Therapy licenses individual therapists under F.S. ch. 480. What county code actually…

Volusia County's only tattoo-specific text sits inside its itinerant merchant licensing article: § 26-54(h) requires any temporary tattoo booth operating at a recognized event like…

Volusia County's wrecker ordinance (Sec. 118-91 through 118-103) regulates every nonconsensual and trespass tow that starts in the county, capping rates by vehicle weight class…

Volusia County confines adult bookstores and adult theatres to the I-1 industrial zoning classification and imposes strict spacing rules in the unincorporated county. A 1,000-foot gap…

Volusia County's secondhand-goods chapter regulates secondary metals recyclers more tightly than state law, capping cash purchases at $50.00, requiring next-business-day electronic…

Volusia County prohibits any commercial animal establishment from selling, bartering, or displaying dogs and cats for retail resale in the unincorporated county. Sec. 14-64 closed the…

Volusia County's land development code lists veterinary clinics and animal hospitals as permitted principal uses across more than a dozen zoning classifications in the unincorporated…

Volusia County recognizes a trap-neuter/spay-release program for feral cats, and a registered feral cat volunteer is not treated as an owner or caregiver so long as the cat stays…

Volusia County requires every dog or cat six months or older in the unincorporated county to be spayed or neutered within thirty days of reaching that age, unless the owner holds an…

Volusia County does not ban keeping exotic species outright, but Sec. 14-62(i) requires any exotic invasive animal found at large and impounded to be humanely euthanized unless its…

Volusia County and FWC prohibit feeding bears, alligators, sandhill cranes, pelicans, and foxes. FL §379.412 bans alligator feeding (2nd-degree misdemeanor). Sea turtle lighting rules…

Volusia County does not ban dog breeds but imposes a heavy registration scheme on any dog classified dangerous under state law: a $1,500 initial registration fee, $500 annual renewal…

Unincorporated Volusia County caps how many dogs and cats over six months old a household can keep: five on a lot of one acre or less, eight on one to five acres, and twelve on five…

Volusia County requires every animal off its owner's property to stay under restraint at all times, and dogs visiting any public park other than a designated leash-free area must be…

Beekeeping in Volusia County is governed by Florida state law (FL §586). FDACS preempts local bans. Registration is required. Volusia County Mosquito Control tracks hive locations and…

Backyard chickens need a conditional use permit in Volusia County and are capped at five hens: no roosters, ducks, geese or other fowl allowed. Section 72-293(5) also sets a…

Beach concession vendors renting e-scooters, e-bikes and mopeds in unincorporated Volusia must meet Coastal Division equipment, licensing and inspection rules under County Code §…

Volusia County defines an electric bicycle by the three-class system in F.S. § 316.003(23) and then regulates where and how e-bikes may operate on county beaches. Sec. 20-173…

Volusia County requires every late-night retail business, open any time between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., to run a working security camera during all business hours under Code § 26-36. The…

Volusia County requires any property owner hosting itinerant vendors during Bike Week, Biketoberfest, Speed Weeks or the Pepsi 400 to hold an itinerant merchant host license under Code…

Anyone staging, promoting or operating a public outdoor entertainment event in unincorporated Volusia County must first obtain an outdoor entertainment event permit, applying at least…

Volusia County requires day care centers to be built to state licensing standards and sized to fit the surrounding neighborhood. Sec. 72-293(12) ties a center's resident capacity to…

Volusia County's Chief Building Official runs construction through a fixed sequence of required inspections, foundation, framing, sheathing, roofing and final, before any work may be…

Anyone who wants to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish or change the occupancy of a building or structure in unincorporated Volusia must first apply to the Chief…

Volusia County makes it unlawful to block traffic on a county right-of-way, camping, sleeping, or parking there, without prior written county approval. Section 94-1(c) sweeps in tents…

Volusia County bars any private use of a county right-of-way for anything besides its intended purpose unless the property owner first secures the county's written consent. Section…

In unincorporated Volusia County, the property owner next to a sidewalk, not the county, pays for keeping it in shape. County Code § 72-620(b)(1) assigns maintenance and replacement of…

Volusia County bans fireworks and sparklers outright on the beach and its approaches, exempting only handheld sparklers. Separately, the fire chief can suspend all firework discharge…

Volusia County bans open campfires on its beaches and beach approaches but carves out a specific exception for portable fire pits. Sec. 20-114 also makes it unlawful to dump hot coals…

Volusia County's Historic Preservation Board can designate buildings, sites and districts as historically, architecturally or archaeologically significant. Once designated, owners need…

Volusia County allows one accessory dwelling unit per single-family parcel in most residential and agricultural zoning classifications under County Code § 72-277(e), capped at 50…

An accessory dwelling unit in unincorporated Volusia County can carry its own water, sewer, and electric meters, but Code of Ordinances § 72-277(e)(4) only triggers utility impact fees…

Volusia County's Code of Ordinances § 72-2 defines a carport as an accessory structure, which pulls a detached carport into § 72-277(a)'s general accessory-structure rules: no…

Volusia County will only allow an accessory dwelling unit on a lot where the principal single-family home is owner-occupied, and Code of Ordinances § 72-277(e)(2)b makes clear this…

Volusia County bans unreasonable vehicle horns and unnecessarily loud car stereos as 'loud, disturbing and unnecessary' noise under Sec. 50-478(c)(1)-(2), enforced by the sheriff's…

Volusia County bars new noise-sensitive land uses, homes, schools, hospitals, day cares, inside the 65 DNL noise contour around its public airports. Sec. 72-296(d)(5) lets existing…

Volusia County treats manufacturing and agricultural land uses as the noisiest permitted category: Table I of the noise ordinance caps sound received at a manufacturing or agricultural…

Outdoor amplified sound equipment at a permitted outdoor entertainment event in unincorporated Volusia County cannot run within 1,000 feet of an off-site dwelling without an approved…

Volusia County limits construction noise in the unincorporated county to the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., seven days a week, under Sec. 50-476(d)(3). Permitted construction, or…

Volusia County's Table I cuts the allowable sound level at the property line after 10:00 p.m., dropping from 60 to 55 dBA for residential receivers and from 65 to 60 dBA for commercial…

Volusia County treats an animal whose noise is 'plainly audible across the property line' and disturbs neighbors as a loud and disturbing noise violation under Sec. 50-478(c)(3)…

Volusia County will not let anyone cut down, move, or destroy a historic tree in the unincorporated county without a permit approved by the county council. A historic tree is defined…

Volusia County requires developers to protect gopher tortoise burrows during land clearing in the unincorporated area. Before construction starts, the applicant must mark preserved…

Along Lakeshore Drive and Enterprise Osteen Road in unincorporated Volusia County, new development must plant street trees inside a 75-foot landscape buffer and front yard setback: one…

Unincorporated Volusia County runs solid waste pickup as a mandatory special assessment district under Code §§ 106-93 and 106-94. Every residential improved parcel is billed on the tax…

Volusia County makes it unlawful to dump solid waste on another's property, in streets, ditches, ponds, or parks, or to let waste accumulate on a lot for an unreasonable time, and Sec…

Volusia County requires commercial solid waste collection at least once a week under Sec. 106-39, leaving the exact day, type, and cost of service to be worked out between the…

Unincorporated Volusia County households get up to four 32-gallon containers of yard trash collected weekly under Code § 106-103(a). Larger cuttings must meet the bulk-trash size cap…

Unincorporated Volusia County residents must set carts at the curb no more than 12 hours before their scheduled pickup and pull them back within 12 hours after the truck runs, per…

Commercial properties in unincorporated Volusia County must screen every trash bin or dumpster on at least three sides with a six-foot fence or wall, set it on a concrete or asphalt…

Volusia County caps retaining wall height at the same yard limits that apply to fences, measured from existing grade on both sides of the wall, and lets a short guardrail or safety…

Volusia County bans barbwire and electric fencing across every standard residential zoning classification, from R-1 through R-9 to the county's mobile-home and office-residential…

Volusia County limits residential fences to six feet in side and rear yards, four feet in front yards, and three feet on the rearward portion of atypical lots. Corner-lot fences must…

Volusia County requires a fence and/or building permit for most residential fences and walls, but chain link, wood and vinyl fences on single-family properties are exempt from that…

Volusia County requires every fence or wall to show its finished side, not exposed posts or framing, to the neighboring lot or street. A homeowner can ask the zoning enforcement…

Volusia County treats yard figurines as a type of exempt sign: they're allowed without a permit only if they stay under four feet tall, no more than ten sit on a lot at once, and the…

Adopted in February 2025 under Florida's new anti-camping law, § 78-1 makes it unlawful to camp or sleep overnight on any Volusia County-owned building, grounds, sidewalk, right-of-way…

Inside Volusia's Indian River Lagoon Surface Water Improvements and Management Zone, every new development must set aside at least 35 percent of the property as open space landscaped…

Volusia County declares grass, weeds, brush and undergrowth over 12 inches tall a nuisance on developed lots in the unincorporated county. Owners get 15 days after notice to cut before…

Volusia County's mandatory watering-day schedule does not apply to every irrigation method. Drip, microspray, and bubbler systems, hand-held hoses with an automatic shutoff, new…

No tree in unincorporated Volusia County comes down without a permit from the county forester first. County Code § 72-834(2) bars removing any tree without a tree removal permit, and…

In unincorporated Volusia County, using potable water for irrigation becomes unlawful once reclaimed water is available to a site. Existing potable-water irrigators must disconnect and…

Volusia cities offer no-knock registries and honor posted no-soliciting signs. Solicitors visiting registered homes or ignoring signs face citations. Religious and political canvassing…

Anyone who solicits, peddles or canvasses on Volusia's Atlantic beach or its approaches needs a commercial solicitation permit from the beach department under Code § 20-290. Individual…

Volusia STR occupancy limits governed by F.S. §509.032 preemption framework. Local occupancy caps only allowed if consistent with general residential occupancy rules. Typical standard…

In unincorporated Volusia County, vehicles must be parked behind or beside the dwelling unit in residential zones. STR guests in permitted commercial zones must comply with off-street…

Rent control is banned in Florida under F.S. §125.0103 and §166.0445. Volusia County and all its cities cannot cap rent or enact rent stabilization. Landlords may raise rent by any…

Florida's solar access law F.S. §163.04 strongly protects solar rights. HOAs cannot prohibit solar panel installations on members' properties. HOAs may only determine specific roof…

Volusia County lets a business operate from a home only if it meets the standards in Code § 72-283: workers besides up to two outside employees must live at the dwelling, the property…

Volusia County and Florida DCF regulate home-based childcare. Family Day Care Homes serve up to 10 children; Large Family Child Care Homes up to 12. DCF license required under FL…

Volusia County does not set a numeric cap on how many clients may visit a home-based business, but it caps the parking that visits generate: no more than two dedicated spaces, and…

A home-based business in unincorporated Volusia County gets no special signage allowance. Code § 72-283(4)a requires every home business to follow the same signage rules that apply to…

Volusia County bars loitering or prowling near playgrounds, play equipment, restrooms, splash pads, picnic shelters, or parking areas on county beaches and beachfront parks. Sec…

Anywhere along Volusia County's beaches and beach approaches, an open can, cup, or bottle of alcohol is illegal to carry, drink, sell, or even just possess. Code of Ordinances § 20-112…

Certified affordable housing projects can raise density up to 20 dwelling units per acre in Urban High Intensity land, with smaller bonuses in Urban Medium, Urban Low, and Low Impact…

New nonresidential buildings in Volusia County's Enterprise Community Overlay Zone must pick one of five historic architectural styles, frame vernacular, masonry vernacular…

In unincorporated Volusia County's R-1 Urban Single-Family Residential classification, Code of Ordinances § 72-241 caps buildings at 35 feet and pairs that limit with a 30-foot front…

Volusia County's Sec. 72-241 caps how much of a lot can be built on. In both of the county's general agriculture classifications, A-1 Prime Agriculture and A-2 Rural Agriculture, the…

Volusia County's Sec. 72-241 fixes front, side and rear yard minimums for every unincorporated zoning classification. The two general agriculture districts show the range: A-1 Prime…

Before Volusia County will approve a demolition permit, the Chief Building Official can demand proof, including a certified pest control operator's statement, that the building being…

Volusia County requires opening protection, hurricane shutters or impact-rated glazing, on new single-family homes valued at $750,000 or more in the wind-borne debris region when the…

Volusia County's Sec. 72-286 requires dedicated off-street loading spaces sized to a use's floor area -- one space for 3,000 to 10,000 square feet of retail, restaurant or service…

Volusia County caps what a wrecker may charge for a tow that starts inside the county, but since Ord. No. 2024-25 the dollar figures are no longer printed in the code. Sec. 118-98…

Unincorporated Volusia County bans inoperative, wrecked, partially dismantled, or unregistered vehicles from any public right-of-way and from private property unless inside a fully…

In unincorporated Volusia County, you cannot park a car, RV, trailer, or boat anywhere in the strip of yard that runs the full width of your lot between the front lot line and your…

Trucks and other commercial vehicles over 26,001 pounds GVW cannot park in Volusia County's R-1 through R-9 and most mobile-home residential districts except while actively loading or…

In unincorporated Volusia County, an RV, boat, or utility trailer counts as an accessory use on a residential lot, but it can't sit in the open strip between the front lot line and the…

Any illuminated sign in unincorporated Volusia County, including the off-premises billboards permitted under Sec. 72-298(9), must have its light source shielded so it never casts a…

Volusia County bars any residential outdoor light fixture from directly illuminating beyond the property line between sunset and sunrise, under Sec. 50-480(b)(2). Violations carry a…

Florida prohibits all home cultivation of cannabis, including for medical patients, under FL §381.986. Only licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers (MMTCs) may grow. Possession…

Florida preempts local dispensary zoning under FL §381.986: MMTCs must be treated as standard pharmacies. Volusia jurisdictions set 500-foot school/church buffers. Dispensaries operate…

Volusia County declares any unsafe, dilapidated or imminently dangerous building a nuisance and bars owners from letting one stand in unincorporated areas. The building official can…

Volusia County levies a 3 percent tourist development tax on every rental of a hotel, motel, apartment, condo, or similar unit rented for six months or less. Sec. 114-32 makes the…

Volusia County exempts backup generators from its noise limits, but only lets residents test or exercise them between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, under Sec…

Volusia County's noise ordinance exempts air conditioners from its decibel limits under Sec. 50-476(d)(1), as long as the unit runs to the manufacturer's specifications and stays in…

Volusia County's parks, coastal parks, and other fee parking areas run on posted hours of 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., set by Code of Ordinances § 82-35(a). Nothing in county code lets you…

Unincorporated Volusia County has no juvenile curfew ordinance. A full search of its code returns no curfew provision, and Florida's state curfew law does not apply unless a local…

Before Volusia County will issue a building permit to construct, develop or modify a public swimming pool, the applicant must show proof of application for a state operating permit…

A small prefabricated above-ground pool at a single-family home in unincorporated Volusia doesn't need a county building permit at all, as long as it's under 24 inches deep and holds…

Volusia County's A-1 Prime Agriculture Classification exists under Code of Ordinances § 72-241 specifically to preserve valuable farmland and shield it from encroachment by…

Volusia County's land planning code defines a 'garage sale' as the sale of a resident's own household goods and personal property and caps how often that sale may happen: no more than…