Hammond, IN Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

35, titled "Camping," provides that no person shall tent or maintain a tent, shelter or camp in any park without a permit from the Board of Park Commissioners or its duly authorized officers. 25 and sits among the parks chapter's rules and regulations alongside boating, fishing, bathing and fire restrictions, all of which likewise route access through Park Board permits rather than setting numeric limits. The text does not separately address encampment sanitation, cleanup crews, or storage of personal property; it is a flat permit requirement that makes any unauthorized tent, shelter or camp in a city park unlawful regardless of duration.

01, not to sidewalks, vacant lots or other public rights-of-way citywide; camping or encampments on those other public spaces are not reached by this section and would need a separate provision elsewhere in the code, such as the nuisance chapter's property-maintenance rules, to be addressed. 20 independently barring anyone from being in a park outside sunrise-to-sunset hours in the first place, permit or not, except for the listed sporting, fishing and sanctioned-event exceptions.