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

52, adopted in 1980 and amended in 1986, defines 'camping' to include sleeping or being in a temporary shelter out-of-doors, sleeping out-of-doors, or cooking over an open flame or fire out-of-doors. The ordinance splits enforcement into two tracks: camping is prohibited on all public property in the City, full stop, unless the appropriate governmental authority has specifically authorized it, and camping is separately prohibited on any property used for residential purposes unless the property owner has given permission and consent. Read together, an unauthorized tent, sleeping bag, or campfire set up on a City park, sidewalk, right-of-way, or other public land is a violation regardless of consent from anyone other than the City, while the same conduct on private residential land turns on whether the property owner has agreed to it.

64 bars sleeping, bathing, laundering clothes, or cooking inside City-owned restroom facilities, both reinforcing the same no-outdoor-camping policy across other categories of public property. 08, and the offense is cited by the Orlando Police Department, typically alongside orders to relocate or remove property from the site.