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

Titusville's Sec. 12-26, adopted by Ord. No. 33-2007, § 1 on June 26, 2007, defines 'camp or camping' as sleeping or otherwise being in a temporary shelter out-of-doors, sleeping out-of-doors, or cooking over an open flame out-of-doors. Subsection (b) bars two distinct things: camping on any sidewalk, right-of-way, easement, parking lot, park, picnic grounds or other public property in the city unless a government authority has specifically authorized it by ordinance, rule, regulation or permit; and camping on private property, in vacant lots, or under any bridge or structure without owning the land or having the owner's or possessor's permission.

The enforcement mechanism in subsection (c) is graduated: a police officer who finds someone violating the section first orders the person to vacate, and only if the person refuses after being told the conduct violates a city ordinance may an arrest follow. Critically, if the person tells the officer they have no home or permanent shelter, the officer must offer an opportunity to enter a homeless shelter or similar facility if one is available before an arrest can be made; refusing that offer is what allows the arrest, not the camping itself.

Violations are punished under the citywide general penalty in Sec. 1-15. The section sits in Chapter 12, Miscellaneous Offenses, and it applies citywide inside Titusville's municipal limits, not on federal land such as Kennedy Space Center or the Merritt Island refuge across the Indian River, and not in unincorporated Brevard County.