Miramar, FL Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Miramar treats abandoned and inoperable vehicles through two parts of its general code. Chapter 20's parking article addresses vehicles left on the street or on private property: § 20-49(a) flatly prohibits parking an inoperable or derelict vehicle in residential zoning districts and makes it subject to towing under § 20-51, which lets the police department or code enforcement division "authorize the removal of any vehicle in violation of this article" at the owner's expense. Nonresidential properties get the same treatment under § 20-50(a), except for a business licensed for dealing with inoperable or derelict vehicles as an essential and related portion of their everyday trade.

Chapter 10's abandoned-property article adds the removal procedure that actually applies once an officer finds a derelict vehicle: § 10-46 defines "derelict property" as property that "appears inoperative, dilapidated, or wrecked or partially dismantled or otherwise forsaken, cast-off or thrown away," a definition that expressly covers motor and recreational vehicles. " The towing company handling the removal must notify the owner and, if the vehicle's salvage value exceeds $100, pay the city $25 or 10 percent of that value, whichever is greater, as an administrative fee; a reclaimed vehicle triggers the same $25 city fee. Enforcement officers are immune from trespass claims for entering property to carry out these duties under § 10-48.