Daytona Beach, FL Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

Section 86-42, added by Ord. No. 0231, that no one may engage in public camping or sleeping on public property, including any public building or grounds and any public right-of-way under city jurisdiction. "Public camping or sleeping" is defined broadly to include lodging or sleeping overnight in a tent or other temporary shelter, sleeping in such a shelter at any time of day when bedding, pillows, or stored belongings are present, or lodging or residing overnight outdoors even without a shelter. 0231(3), and the First Step Shelter.

Subsection (d) states flatly that public camping is prohibited on all public property in the city. Before an officer may arrest a homeless violator, subsection (f)(1) requires that the person first be given an opportunity to enter a shelter or accept other governmental housing assistance, with arrest available only if that assistance is offered and refused. That shelter-first requirement does not apply, however, to someone ineligible for shelter due to intoxication, a prior ban from the facility, sex-offender or domestic-violence-offender status, someone already fined under this section once in the last 30 days or twice in the last 180 days, or someone already subject to a trespass order for that property under § 86-43.