Davie, FL Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Set out window
- 12 hours before collection
- Must remove by
- 8 hours after collection
- Never allowed
- streets, gutters, sidewalks
- Governing law
- Davie Code § 9-25(b)
Summary
Davie residents may put garbage receptacles at the curb no more than 12 hours before regular collection and must move them back within 8 hours afterward; carts can never sit in streets, gutters, or sidewalks.
Such receptacles shall be kept at the side or rear areas of residential units, except within twelve (12) hours prior to the regular collection, and must be relocated to the side or rear areas of the residential unit within eight (8) hours after collection.(2)The collector may, with the approval of the town, require that garbage receptacles and trash be placed for collection in that portion of street right-of-way paralleling any public thoroughfare between the curbline and abutting property line. In no event, however, shall garbage receptacles and trash be placed therein more than twelve (12) hours prior to the regular collection. Receptacles shall be removed from such area within eight (8) hours after collection.(3)At no time shall any receptacle, or trash be placed in streets, gutters or on sidewalks.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 75).
Full Breakdown
Davie Code § 9-25(b)(1) requires garbage receptacles to be kept at the side or rear of a residential unit except within twelve hours before regular collection, and to be relocated back to the side or rear within eight hours after collection. Subsection (b)(3) separately bars placing any receptacle or trash in streets, gutters, or on sidewalks at any time. The same timing applies where the collector, with town approval, has receptacles set out in the right-of-way instead.
Violations & Fines
Leaving a cart out longer than the 12-hour pre-collection / 8-hour post-collection window, or placing it in a street, gutter, or sidewalk, is a Code of Ordinances violation subject to citation.
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