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

Section 13-34(a) opens by making it unlawful, absent director authorization or a permit, to do any of 25 listed things in a city park or recreational facility. Two of those items directly target encampments: item (21) bars camping in any park unless the director specifically authorizes it, and item (22) separately bars parking overnight in any park on the same authorization standard. They sit next to related restrictions in the same subsection: sleeping or reclining on a bench or table (item 1), sleeping or remaining in bushes, shrubs, or other foliage (item 2), sleeping during hours the park is closed (item 3), and building a hut, shanty, or shelter or engaging in construction or digging without director authorization (item 7).

Read together, those items function as the city's encampment-clearing tool for parkland: a structure, a tent, or a person bedding down overnight in a park is enforceable under one or more of these clauses even without a separate camping citation. The subsection's closing sentence sets the consequence for the whole list, including the camping and overnight-parking items: immediate ejection from the park, a law enforcement trespass warning, or both. There is no separate cleanup-and-storage protocol for removed property written into this section; the city's response is framed entirely around ejecting the person and barring return, not a notice-and-storage process for belongings.