Satellite Beach, FL Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

City Code § 26-29 lists nine conditions that count as prima facie evidence of a nuisance injurious to health, and item (5) is squarely a rodent-control rule: any creation, maintenance or causing of a condition capable of breeding vermin and rodents. The same section also reaches related harborage conditions, including untreated garbage or dead animals, improperly maintained septic systems, and accumulations of refuse or debris exposed to the weather. Enforcement runs through § 26-33: once the code enforcement officer gives written notice of a § 26-29 violation, the owner or agent has 15 days to abate it (or 15 days from the date of a returned mailing, or 15 days from personal service).

If nothing happens, the city itself can enter the property to remedy the condition and invoice the owner for the work. ch. 170, plus interest and attorney's fees if the city has to foreclose. A separate provision in the same chapter, § 14-3(6)-(7), reinforces the same policy for the city's backyard-chicken permit program: coops and feed storage must be built and maintained to keep rodents, reptiles and other vermin from being attracted to the property, with feed kept in secure metal containers (plastic is barred outright). 00, up to 60 days imprisonment, or both, with each day of continuance a separate offense.