Pembroke Pines, FL Outdoor Cooking: Smoker Rules (2026)

01(A) opens by banning the ignition or burning of any substance or material on public or private property citywide, then immediately narrows that ban with a proviso aimed at ordinary cooking: it does not prohibit burning wood, tinder, or similar material in a stove, oven, barbecue pit, grill, or fireplace for the purpose of cooking or fuel, and it limits that carve-out to One- and Two-Family Dwellings. That wording means a wood- or charcoal-fired smoker used for cooking on a single-family or duplex lot falls within the exemption the same as a gas grill or fireplace would, since the code exempts the fuel-burning activity by purpose, cooking or fuel, and by device category rather than by brand or design.

The exemption does not, however, give a smoker or grill a free pass for every use: subsection (B) separately bars using any permanent or portable barbecue, outdoor fireplace, or grill to dispose of rubbish, trash, mulch, landscaping debris, or other combustible waste, so running a smoker to burn yard trimmings would fall back outside the exemption and into the general open-burning ban. Subsection (C) additionally requires that, in residential use, the openings of outdoor fireplaces, permanent barbecues, and grills carry an approved spark arrester, screen, or door, a fire-safety condition that applies to the same devices the cooking exemption covers. 99(A).