Port Orange, FL Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Port Orange City Code Section 70-3, in Chapter 70's Article I on traffic generally, bars any funeral, procession or parade containing 200 or more persons or 50 or more vehicles from occupying, marching or proceeding along a city street without a permit issued by the chief of police, plus compliance with any other applicable regulations in that chapter. The only exemptions are the armed forces of the United States, the military forces of Florida, and the city's own police and fire departments. Section 70-4 requires any funeral composed of a procession of vehicles to identify itself with lighted headlights or a pennant of a type the police department designates, and Section 70-5 requires each driver in a funeral or other procession to stay as near the right-hand edge of the roadway as practical and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is safe.

Section 70-2 gives the chief of police broad authority to make and enforce traffic rules, designate routes, and set temporary speed and parking rules for events like these. Chapter 70 as a whole adopts Florida Statutes chapters 316 and 318 by reference under Section 70-1, and Section 70-1(c) ties the penalty for violating this chapter to whatever penalty those state chapters prescribe for the corresponding violation, so a permitless large parade is punished the same way state law would punish the equivalent traffic offense rather than under a separate city fine schedule.