Flagler County, FL Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

Sec. 23-2 of the Flagler County Code lists activities prohibited "in a public park or recreation area," and subsection (21) is direct: no person may "solicit alms or contributions for any purpose, whether public or private" on that property. The prohibition is not limited to aggressive or intimidating solicitation; panhandling of any kind inside a county park or recreation area is off-limits, whether the solicitor is asking for cash, signatures, donations to a cause, or contributions to a private venture.

The ban sits inside the same list that prohibits disorderly conduct (Sec. 23-2(25), loud, boisterous, threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language), unauthorized vending (Sec. 23-2(18), no offering goods for sale without a county concessionaire authorization), and unauthorized fundraising events (Sec. 23-2(28), no operating a tent or stand to sell or give away food, drink or other items without county authorization). Read together, the article treats a county park as a controlled-access recreation space where commercial and charitable solicitation activity requires prior county sign-off through Sec. 23-3's authorization process, not a public forum for open solicitation.

Because the prohibition is drawn from Chapter 23, "Parks and Recreation," it reaches only property the county itself operates as a park, preserve or recreation area in the unincorporated county. The Flagler County Code contains no separate, freestanding anti-panhandling or aggressive-solicitation ordinance covering county roads, rights-of-way or business districts outside its park system, and this provision does not apply inside Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Beverly Beach, Bunnell or Marineland, each of which would need its own ordinance to regulate street-level solicitation.