Coconut Creek, FL Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)
Key Facts
- Activity banned
- Right-of-way canvassing or soliciting at listed intersections
- Number of intersections
- Ten, mostly on Lyons Road and State Road 7
- Areas covered
- Travel lanes, sidewalks, swales and medians
- Each day of violation
- Counts as a separate violation
- Enforcers
- Coconut Creek Police Department and code enforcement
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 2017-053, January 25, 2018
Summary
The City of Coconut Creek, Florida has no separate aggressive-panhandling definition. Its solicitation rule for donations and sales aimed at drivers is Sec. 16-7, which makes it unlawful to act as a right-of-way canvasser or solicitor in travel lanes, sidewalks, swales and medians at ten named high-traffic intersections.
(2)Prohibited intersections. It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a right-of-way canvasser or solicitor within any portion of a roadway right-of-way, including travel lanes, sidewalks, swales, and medians at any of the following intersections:a.Atlantic Blvd. and Lyons Road;b.Coconut Creek Parkway and Lyons Road;c.Sample Road and Lyons Road;d.Wiles Road and Lyons Road;e.Winston Park Blvd. and Lyons Road;f.Sample Road and NW 54 th Avenue;g.Wiles Road and State Road 7;h.Lox Road and State Road 7;i.Hillsboro Blvd. (State Road 810) and Lyons Road; andj.Copans Road and Lyons Road.
Full Breakdown
The code text searched for this page contains no section using the words panhandling or aggressive. What Coconut Creek regulates instead is the roadside solicitor, in Sec. 16-7 of the Coconut Creek Code, adopted by the City Commission in Ord. No. 2017-053 (January 25, 2018).
Chapter 16 defines a right-of-way canvasser or solicitor as any person, acting for themselves or for a charitable, commercial or other organization, who sells or offers anything, seeks employment, seeks a contribution or donation, or hands or receives anything by hand to someone operating or occupying a motor vehicle on the city's streets, even one stopped in the travel lanes. Persons handing over official citations, such as traffic tickets, are excluded.
Section 16-7(a)(2) bans that activity in any portion of the roadway right-of-way, including travel lanes, sidewalks, swales and medians, at ten intersections: Atlantic Blvd. and Lyons Road; Coconut Creek Parkway and Lyons Road; Sample Road and Lyons Road; Wiles Road and Lyons Road; Winston Park Blvd. and Lyons Road; Sample Road and NW 54th Avenue; Wiles Road and State Road 7; Lox Road and State Road 7; Hillsboro Blvd. (State Road 810) and Lyons Road; and Copans Road and Lyons Road.
The Commission's findings explain the choice. A traffic safety study by Atkins identified these ten signalized intersections as posing the greatest threat, given high crash rates, traffic volume and vehicle speed, and the findings reference a distance of 250 linear feet downstream from the intersection stop bar. The Commission said it was using the least restrictive means and listed alternatives left open, such as mail, places of assembly, shopping areas, special events and the internet.
Outside the ten intersections, Sec. 16-6 still lets residents refuse solicitors: private property is off limits once the owner or occupant has asked the person to stop or posted a sign. Sec. 16-8 also preserves enforcement of F.S. § 316.130(5) against people standing in a roadway.
Violations & Fines
Section 16-8 subjects violators to the code enforcement penalties in Sec. 1-8, and each day of violation counts as a separate violation. Sec. 1-8 fines for Chapter 16 run $50 first offense, $75 second, $100 third, and $100 to $500 fourth. City police officers enforce the chapter, and county court prosecution can follow with penalties set by the county judge.
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