Hialeah, FL Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Sec. 62-11(a) makes it unlawful to picnic, lunch or cook anywhere in a Hialeah park that has not been specifically designated for that usage, putting all outdoor cooking off-limits outside the marked picnic zones. Subsection (b) narrows the equipment further: no fire may be built or lit except in an approved grill, stove, fireplace or other suitable container, and only within areas designated for fire building, and anyone who starts a fire must extinguish it before leaving the area. Subsection (c) adds a property-damage rule distinct from the location and equipment requirements: a grill or other cooking device cannot be used in a way that burns, chars, mars or blemishes a bench, table or other park object.

These three park-cooking rules sit in chapter 62's parks and recreation article, enforced by recreation and community services department personnel authorized under Sec. 62-3(a), who may suspend or revoke a person's right to use department facilities for noncompliance under Sec. 62-3(b). Sec. 62-4 sets the penalty for any chapter 62 violation, including Sec. 62-11, by cross-reference to Sec. 00, with each day of a continuing violation counted as a separate offense. The section derives from Code 1960, § 23-6, carried forward by Ord. No. 2267, § 6, adopted July 8, 1969, and has not been substantively amended since.