Gulfport, FL Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)
Key Facts
- Prohibited conduct
- Depositing refuse on streets, parks, sidewalks
- Citation type
- Class III citation under Chapter 1
- Fine
- Up to $500 or 60 days
- Alternate enforcement
- Code enforcement board, injunctive relief
- Continuing offense
- Each day is a separate violation
Summary
Dumping garbage, trash, or refuse on any Gulfport street, sidewalk, park, or another person's property is unlawful under Sec. 11-4, punishable by a class III citation, code enforcement action, or the Sec. 1-6 general penalty of up to a $500 fine or 60 days in jail.
(a)It shall be unlawful for any person to sweep, throw, or otherwise deposit or cause to be swept, thrown, or otherwise deposited, any garbage, trash, waste or other refuse into or on any public or private street, alley, sidewalk or park, or the property of another person, or property which is in the possession of another person, within the city, or to permit any garbage, trash or other refuse to accumulate in such manner that it may be carried or deposited into or on any of the above places by action of the weather or wind.(b)It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, cast or otherwise deposit, any garbage, trash, waste and other refuse of any kind in or upon any curb, gutter, street, avenue, highway, tunnel, sidewalk, park, parkway, lot or body of water, whether vacant or occupied.
Full Breakdown
Sec. 11-4, Litter, bars two overlapping kinds of conduct. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful to sweep, throw, or otherwise deposit garbage, trash, waste, or other refuse into or on any public or private street, alley, sidewalk, or park, or onto property belonging to or possessed by someone else, and separately bars letting refuse accumulate so that wind or weather carries it onto those same places. Subsection (b) repeats the prohibition for curbs, gutters, streets, avenues, highways, tunnels, sidewalks, parks, parkways, lots, or bodies of water, whether vacant or occupied, closing off open lots and waterfront parcels as dumping targets.
Subsection (c) treats a garbage receptacle left at the curb past collection day as litter in its own right, so containers must come back off the right-of-way promptly. Sec. 11-6 separately bars placing garbage on another person's property without the consent of the owner, tenant, or other party in control, covering dumping onto a neighbor's yard even when it never touches a public right-of-way. Sec. 11-4(d) lays out three enforcement paths side by side: a class III citation under Chapter 1 and Pinellas County procedure, other means such as a summons, an arrest, a code enforcement board action, or a civil action for injunctive relief, or punishment under the Sec. 1-6 general penalty.
Violations & Fines
Each violation of Sec. 11-4 can be pursued as a class III citation, through a summons, arrest, code enforcement board hearing, or a civil injunction, or punished under the Sec. 1-6 general penalty: a fine up to $500, imprisonment up to 60 days, or both, with every day the dumped material remains counted as a separate offense. Dumping on a neighbor's property without consent is a further, separate violation under Sec. 11-6.
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