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

125.0231 Public camping and public sleeping. — [...] (2) Except as provided in subsection (3), a county or municipality may not authorize or otherwise allow any person to regularly engage in public camping or sleeping on any public property, including, but not limited to, any public building or its grounds and any public right-of-way under the jurisdiction of the county or municipality, as applicable. (3) A county may, by majority vote of the county's governing body, designate property owned by the county or a municipality within the boundaries of the county to be used for a continuous period of no longer than 1 year for the purposes of public camping or sleeping. [...] (b) Except as provided in paragraph (e), if a county designates county or municipal property to be used for public camping or sleeping, it must establish and maintain minimum standards and procedures related to the designated property for the purposes of: 1. Ensuring the safety and security of the designated property and the persons lodging or residing on such property. 2. Maintaining sanitation, which must include, at a minimum, providing access to clean and operable restrooms and running water. 3. Coordinating with the regional managing entity to provide access to behavioral health services, which must include substance abuse and mental health treatment resources. 4. Prohibiting illegal substance use and alcohol use on the designated property and enforcing such prohibition.