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

Under Orange County Code §§ 28-75 and 28-76 (Article III, the 'Ordinance Governing the Parking of Motor Vehicles on Residentially Zoned and Agriculturally Zoned Property'), no wrecked, discarded, dismantled, partly dismantled, inoperative, abandoned, or severely rusted motor vehicle may be parked on residentially or agriculturally zoned property, including the streets and rights-of-way within those zoned areas, unless it sits inside a completely enclosed garage or is parked entirely within a carport under a standard, nontransparent cover made for that vehicle. Section 28-70 defines an 'abandoned, inoperative or discarded motor vehicle' broadly: any vehicle without a current license plate, one whose registration sticker has been expired for at least 90 days, or one showing evidence of neglect such as vegetation grown up under the frame, missing engine or transmission parts, or a salvage value under $125.

The rule applies only in the unincorporated county per Section 28-68; Orlando, Winter Park, Apopka and the county's other municipalities enforce their own vehicle-storage codes. ' If the vehicle sits somewhere other than a street or right-of-way, code enforcement can abate it under Section 28-79's notice-and-hearing process or cite it under the Chapter 11 Code Enforcement Citation Program; a vehicle actually parked in a street or right-of-way can only be cited under the Citation Program. Both routes are Class II violations carrying the reduced civil penalty set in Section 11-67. Section 28-78 makes the property owner, renter, or agent AND the vehicle's owner jointly and individually responsible.