Lawton, OK Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

Section 14-1-143(E) of the Lawton City Code governs community cooking facilities in mobile home parks and trailer parks: cooking shelters, barbecue pits, fireplaces, wood-burning stoves and approved anti-pollution incinerators must be located, constructed, maintained and used so as to minimize fire hazards and smoke nuisance both on the park property and on neighboring property. The facilities themselves must be built to plans the health officer has approved before use. Beyond design, the section imposes three flat operating rules: no open fire is permitted anywhere in the park except in a facility the fire marshal has separately approved, no open fire may ever be left unattended, and no fuel or material that emits dense smoke or objectionable odors may be burned in any of these facilities.

This section sits inside Article 14-1, the chapter governing service buildings and other community service facilities in mobile home parks and trailer parks, alongside heating standards requiring laundry, sanitary and recreation buildings to hold seventy degrees Fahrenheit in cold weather (Section 14-1-143(C)) and general construction-durability requirements for all park structures (Section 14-1-143(B), (D)). Because the rule is written into the mobile home park chapter rather than a general nuisance or fire-prevention article, it binds park owners and management operating shared cooking amenities for residents, not a homeowner's private backyard grill or smoker outside a licensed park.