Lauderhill, FL Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

Sec. 10-7 of the Lauderhill Code bars any person from placing, sweeping, scattering, littering, dumping, or causing to be placed, swept, scattered, littered or dumped, any garbage, trash or litter in or upon any street, sidewalk, alley, canal, watercourse, vacant lot, city park or city property of any kind, or upon any improved property, within city limits. The section, first enacted by Ord. No. 8 in 1959 and amended in 1991 and 2000, expressly classifies shopping carts and unauthorized signs as litter for its purposes, a provision aimed at the abandoned carts that accumulate along the SR-7/US-441 corridor and at shopping centers like Lauderhill Mall; the city manager may negotiate return contracts with cart owners, and enforcement under those contracts takes priority over Sec.

10-7 enforcement for carts specifically. The section adopts Florida Statutes Chapter 403, Environmental Control, Part I, Pollution Control, by reference for enforcement purposes, layering the state pollution-control framework onto the local litter ban. A related provision, Sec. 10-8, separately bans burying, burning or disposing of trash, rubbish, garbage, offal, dead animals or other waste matter anywhere in the city except as this chapter provides, closing off backyard burn-pile or burial disposal as an alternative to lawful collection. Because Sec. 10-7 does not carry its own dollar figure, enforcement falls back on the Code's general penalty provision at Sec. 1-8, which applies whenever a chapter does not set its own specific fine.