Putnam County, FL Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 45-532, in the Land Development Code's fence division, sets construction standards for every fence and fence wall in unincorporated Putnam County unless another Code section specifically regulates the fence. Subsection (d) requires conventional and traditional building materials, naming concrete block, brick, wood, decorative aluminum, iron or steel, chain link, and composite products made specifically for fences and walls, while flatly prohibiting non-traditional materials, with tires, mufflers, hubcaps and auto or mobile-home body parts given as examples. Subsection (f) separately restricts sharp or electrified fencing: no barbed wire, spire tips, sharp objects or electrically charged fence may go up within 100 feet of a residential zoning district under separate ownership, unless one of four listed exceptions applies: bona fide agricultural use to control livestock in districts that permit livestock, temporary barbed-wire security fencing around active construction sites when the director approves it, chain-link fence topped with three strands of barbed wire spaced six inches apart when required or approved by the director around a hazard, or underground invisible pet fences, which the section says are never read as prohibited electrified fencing.

Fences must also present their finished side to the adjoining lot or right-of-way under subsection (e), and subsection (g) bars fences in rights-of-way, submerged state lands, regulatory floodways or drainage easements. Uniformity of materials, design and color across a property's fencing is required under subsection (b), with the planning and development services director able to approve alternative materials or color if compatible with an existing fence.