Flagler County, FL Right to Farm: Farm Nuisance Protection (2026)

Flagler County's Litter Control article, Ch. 27, Art. II, generally makes it a violation to accumulate, store or discard litter, including yard trash, debris and abandoned equipment, on public or private property in the unincorporated county (Sec. 27-29, Sec. 27-30). Sec. 27-31 lists exceptions to that general rule, and the first one, Sec. 14, Florida Statutes' from the article's reach entirely. Rather than writing a separate local right-to-farm ordinance, Flagler County built its deference to the state Right to Farm Act directly into the exemptions of its own nuisance-litter code, so a farm or timber operation in the unincorporated county is not exposed to a litter citation for accumulations of agricultural waste, machinery, feed materials or similar farm debris that would otherwise fall under the article's broad definition of litter in Sec.

27-29(k). This exemption sits alongside the article's other carve-outs, including county-approved dump sites (Sec. 27-31(2)) and screened compost piles (Sec. 27-31(5)). The exemption applies only within the unincorporated county under Sec. 27-28; it has no bearing inside Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Beverly Beach, Bunnell or Marineland, none of which carry the large agricultural tracts unincorporated Flagler County does. A property owner relying on the exemption must still qualify as a bona fide farm or timberland operation under the state Right to Farm Act itself; the county code does not define those terms independently.