Jupiter, FL Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

Section 11-4 makes it unlawful for anyone to willfully lodge on the private land of another person within Jupiter without being authorized, licensed or invited by the owner, lessee or the owner's agent. Section 11-5 gives property owners an easy way to establish the lack of consent: posting the property, or fencing or cultivating it, is treated as prima facie evidence that no one had permission to enter, settle or lodge there. Section 11-6 extends the same prohibition to public property, making it unlawful to willfully lodge or settle on land or real property owned by the town, the county, the state or any other public agency within Jupiter without that governmental owner's consent; the section defines public land broadly to include streets, roads, alleys, drainageways, parks, parkways, open spaces, conservation and preservation areas, recreational land, parking lots and any buildings or structures on them, so the ban reaches far beyond streets and sidewalks into every category of town-owned property.

Jupiter's parks carry an additional, more specific rule: section 14-79 bars anyone from camping or erecting or maintaining a tent, shelter or recreational vehicle on park property, with a narrow carve-out for open-sided canopy tents used to provide shade during sporting events and activities. Section 14-82 separately closes parks to the public between sunset and sunrise except in lighted areas during town-sponsored events, reinforcing the camping ban by removing any lawful basis for remaining in a park overnight. Because unauthorized lodging on private or public land is adopted as a town ordinance violation rather than left solely to state trespass law, Jupiter police and code enforcement can act under the town's own chapter 8 remedies and the general civil penalty in section 1-14 without waiting on a separate state trespass charge.