Marion County, FL Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Sec. 16-92(c) is aimed at the owner of the land, not the owner of the vehicle. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any land in the county to store any unserviceable vehicle within three hundred (300) feet of any boundary of such land. A Marion County property owner who lets a relative or tenant leave a dead car near the property line is the person the subsection holds responsible.

The distance is measured from any boundary, not only from the road frontage, so the 300 feet applies on every side of the parcel at once. On a lot where no spot is more than 300 feet from a boundary, no outdoor location complies, and the vehicle has to go inside a building or off the property. Only on large Marion County acreage can an unserviceable vehicle sit outdoors under this subsection, and then only in the interior of the tract, beyond 300 feet from each line.

The subsection names its own exceptions. Unserviceable vehicles may be stored on the premises of a lawfully established and maintained junkyard, vehicle repair business, or solid waste management facility. Separately, motor vehicles stored within a completely enclosed building are excepted. The words lawfully established and maintained mean an informal backyard repair operation does not qualify, and the words completely enclosed mean an open-sided shelter or a cover thrown over the vehicle does not qualify either.

A second rule in the county code separately bars keeping two or more unserviceable vehicles anywhere on a parcel, under the same exceptions. The board has declared this accumulation a public nuisance and health hazard. Code enforcement officers handle violations, which can also be charged by citation.