Homelessness & Encampment Rules in Florida (2026)

Miami's camping enforcement was shaped by the Pottinger v. City of Miami consent decree (1998-2018), which limited…

The Town of Davie prohibits regularly camping or sleeping overnight on public property, including buildings, grounds…

Homestead makes it unlawful to sleep anywhere on the city's streets, avenues or other public property under City Code…

Largo makes it a criminal offense to sleep, lie, or recline anywhere on a public sidewalk, street, walkway, or the…

Florida HB 1365 (2024) prohibits sleeping or camping on public property statewide effective October 1, 2024. Miami-Dade…

West Palm Beach bans public camping or sleeping on any public property after police give notice, under City Code §…

Brevard bans standing, sitting, or occupying medians, crosswalks, bike lanes, and arterial or collector roadsides where…

Fort Lauderdale bars sitting, standing or lying on public sidewalks after a warning or where a no-loitering sign is…

Gulfport bars sleeping, lying or reclining anywhere on a public right-of-way, sidewalk or alleyway under section 14-47…

City law makes it unlawful to sit, lie, stand, loiter or camp on any Miami sidewalk, street or public right-of-way if…

Miami Beach bars walking, standing, sitting, lying or placing objects so as to intentionally block pedestrian or…

Miramar bans camping or sleeping on public property, including streets, sidewalks and rights-of-way, under City Code…

New Port Richey, in Pasco County, Florida, bans sitting or lying on sidewalks and other public ways after a police…

Orlando bars sitting or lying on public sidewalks in the Downtown Core District once a law enforcement officer has…

County Code § 18-2 makes it unlawful to occupy, lodge, or sleep in the open on private property, vacant lots, or under…

City of Sarasota police can order anyone blocking a sidewalk, street or right-of-way by standing, sitting or lying…

St. Petersburg bans sleeping, lying or reclining during daylight hours, sunrise to sunset, within two large…

Tallahassee Code of General Ordinances § 12-91 makes it unlawful to stand, congregate, or assemble on sidewalks, street…

Winter Haven's Sit-Lie Ordinance of 2023 bars sitting or lying on a public sidewalk between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. in…

Clearwater bans willfully obstructing the free use of sidewalks, curbs, the Pinellas County Trail or building entrances…

Collier County makes it unlawful to sit, lie, stand or loiter on a public sidewalk, street, curb or parking lot in a…

Martin County bars placing objects, debris, or material on public sidewalks or bike paths in a way that blocks…

Tampa Code Ch. 14 sidewalk obstruction rules and Florida HB 1365 (2024) effectively prohibit sleeping or lying on…

Bay County makes it unlawful to camp overnight on Gulf beaches, in public parks, or in any other public area of the…

Cape Coral bans camping or sleeping overnight on any city property, including sidewalks, streets, alleyways, and…

Coral Springs bans camping everywhere on public property, including parks, rights-of-way, and other city land, under…

Broward County's Town of Davie prohibits regularly camping or sleeping on any public property, adopted under Florida's…

Daytona Beach bans public camping and sleeping on all city-controlled property under City Code § 86-42, adopted in 2025…

Deltona bans camping or sleeping on public property, including building grounds, sidewalks, and rights-of-way, unless…

Doral bans camping on any public property citywide under Sec. 26-201, but before enforcing it an officer must first…

Escambia County bans camping or sleeping on any public property in the unincorporated county, from tents and bedding to…

Fort Lauderdale bans camping or sleeping on any public property citywide unless a governmental authority expressly…

Fort Myers bans camping or sleeping overnight on city-owned buildings, grounds, streets, parks, sidewalks and…

Highlands County Code Article VIII, adopted in 2024, makes it unlawful to camp on any public property or to store…

Camping or sleeping on any public property, building, or right-of-way is a class B offense unless the City has…

Jupiter bars anyone from lodging on private land without the owner's consent and from lodging or settling on any town…

Kissimmee bans camping or sleeping on any city-owned property or public right-of-way, including tents, bedding, or…

Largo prohibits placing or using any tent, hut, lean-to, shack, or other temporary shelter on city property or in the…

Manatee County bans lodging, pitching a tent or campsite, storing property unattended, or relieving oneself outside a…

Melbourne bans camping or sleeping overnight on any public property citywide, including rights-of-way, parks and city…

New Port Richey bans camping on any public or private property citywide, covering tents, RVs, and camping gear, with…

Okaloosa County bans camping or overnight sleeping in county buildings and on county grounds under Sec. 1-19, with…

Orange County bans regularly sleeping or camping on county-owned public property and rights-of-way, with a formal…

Orlando's City Code makes it unlawful to camp anywhere on public property, and on private residential property without…

Effective December 2024, Osceola County Code § 18-3 makes it unlawful to camp or sleep overnight on any county-owned…

Palm Coast bars anyone from regularly camping or sleeping on public property, including public buildings, grounds and…

Polk County bans camping, sleeping outdoors overnight, or storing tents and camp gear on any public property, including…

Sarasota County makes it unlawful to camp anywhere in the unincorporated county outside a designated area or permit…

Under Code Sec. 175.3, adopted per Florida's 2024 camping law (F.S. 125.0231), no one may camp or sleep overnight on…

St. Lucie County prohibits regularly camping or sleeping overnight on any public property under county jurisdiction…

St. Petersburg bans sleeping or camping in the right-of-way, including sidewalks, and public camping as defined by…

Florida HB 1365 (2024) bars public camping on city property and forces Tampa to maintain sanitary conditions at any…

West Palm Beach bans camping or sleeping on any public property, including buildings, grounds and rights-of-way, once a…

Brevard County bans sleeping or camping on any beach, dune, or beach access from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. unless the…

Broward County bans regularly camping or sleeping on any public property countywide, requires a verbal and written…

Clearwater's § 21.21 bans lodging out-of-doors, tents, shelters or sleeping bedding, on public property, but only after…

Collier County bans camping, defined as sleeping outdoors, sheltering outdoors, or cooking over an open flame, on all…

Unincorporated Flagler County bars regularly camping or sleeping on public property under Sec. 20-2, adopted November…

Hollywood bans lodging on any street, sidewalk, alley, right-of-way, easement, public beach, park, or other city-owned…

Lakeland Code Sec. 70-5 bans camping on all public property in the city outright, unless the city manager or another…

Martin County prohibits sleeping or camping overnight anywhere in a County park that isn't a designated campsite…

Miami Code § 37-16 makes camping, sleeping under a tent, or accumulating belongings in parks, sidewalks, and…

Miami Beach prohibits public camping and sleeping on all public property, but officers must offer an eligible person…

Miramar bans camping or sleeping on public property outside city parks, but officers must first order the person to…

North Port bans lodging out-of-doors on city property outright and requires a permitted sanitation facility, plus bars…

Pompano Beach bans lodging on public property without City Manager consent and bans storing personal property on public…

Port Orange bans camping on any public property, including sleeping outdoors in a tent or under coverings and cooking…

Port St. Lucie's code does not regulate homeless encampments as a distinct topic; the closest governing rule is the…

City of Sarasota Code makes lodging out-of-doors on any public or private property unlawful without the owner's…

In the City of Satellite Beach, City Code § 38-7 bars sleeping or camping on any beach, dune, beach access, sidewalk…

Tallahassee's park code bans camping and overnight parking in any city park unless the parks director specifically…

Camping on any public property in Titusville is unlawful under Sec. 12-26, including sidewalks, rights-of-way, parking…

Adopted in February 2025 under Florida's new anti-camping law, § 78-1 makes it unlawful to camp or sleep overnight on…

Sec. 15-282(14) bars camping in a Winter Haven park outside permanent, supervised organized-camp cabins, including…