Tamarac, FL Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Tamarac Code § 9-77 declares the abandonment, parking or storage of a derelict vehicle or vessel on public or private property a public nuisance and menace to public health, safety and welfare, alongside accumulations of trash, excessive growth, and unsafe fill. Paragraph (3) sets the operative time limits: no person may abandon a motor vehicle or vessel on public property for more than 24 hours, and no person may abandon one on private property for more than 10 days. Separately, no person may park, leave or store any derelict vehicle, defined in § 9-76 as one in a state of evident disuse, neglect or abandonment, wrecked or missing major operating parts, overgrown with vegetation, collecting refuse underneath, used solely for storage, missing inflated tires or a current license tag, on public or private property, except as the Land Development Code separately permits.

Responsibility for removal falls on the registered owner of the vehicle or vessel, or on the property owner or occupant where it sits. If the vehicle is not removed within the time given in a notice, and the violation is not contested, the community development director may refer the matter to the special magistrate as a Chapter 2 code enforcement case, or may authorize the city to remove the vehicle directly. Any costs the city incurs removing the vehicle are assessed against the vehicle's owner under the § 9-82 abatement and lien procedure, the same nuisance-abatement mechanism used for trash and overgrowth violations elsewhere in Chapter 9's Division 5.