North Port, FL Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- City Code § 46-64
- Parks covered
- 25 named city parks
- Designated areas
- Improved parking lots only
- No-smoking parks
- Warm Mineral Springs, Myakkahatchee Creek, Oaks
- First-offense fine
- $25
Summary
Smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vapes, and filtered cigars is banned at North Port's public parks except in designated smoking areas on improved parking lots; three natural parks allow no smoking areas at all.
Smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vapes, filtered cigars, pipes, and other devices that can be used to inhale, exhale, burn, or carry tobacco products are prohibited at the city's public parks identified below, except in designated smoking areas. ... This prohibition does not apply to unfiltered cigars.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of the City: Supplement 65 | Unified Land Development Code: Supplement 22).
Full Breakdown
North Port City Code § 46-64 bans smoking cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vapes, filtered cigars, and pipes at 25 named public parks unless the smoker is in a designated smoking area sited on an improved (paved, shelled, or graveled) parking lot marked with signage and a waste receptacle; unfiltered cigars are exempt from the ban entirely. Warm Mineral Springs Park, Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, and Oaks Park lack the improved parking needed for a designated area, so smoking is barred outright at those three. A person cited gets 30 days to pay the fine or request a hearing before the city's hearing officer.
Violations & Fines
$25 fine for a first violation, $50 for a second, $75 for each additional repeat violation; failing to pay or request a hearing within 30 days counts as an admitted violation.
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Sources & Official References
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