Lauderhill, FL Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Base rule
- Broward County year-round schedule applies
- Reclaimed water
- Fully exempt from schedule
- Other exemptions
- Repairs, hand watering, new landscaping
- Local cross-reference
- Code of Ordinances § 21-74
- First violation fine
- $50
- Repeat violation penalty
- $250 + up to 30 days jail
Summary
In the City of Lauderhill, landscape irrigation must follow Broward County's year-round watering schedule, but Section 1.2.1(B) of the Land Development Regulations exempts reclaimed water end uses and water recovered or derived from an aquifer storage and recovery system from those restrictions entirely, alongside repairs, low-volume hand watering and new landscaping establishment.
Landscaped and grass areas shall be irrigated consistent with the year-round landscape irrigation measures imposed by Broward County, subject to the following exceptions:1.Repair and maintenance of irrigation systems. ... Reclaimed water end uses or water recovered or derived from an aquifer storage and recovery system.6.As otherwise further restricted by order of the South Florida Water Management District, Broward County or the City of Lauderhill. ... Any person, corporation or business entity convicted of violating subsection B. shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first violation, one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the second violation, and two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for the third and each subsequent violation thereafter or imprisonment for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both.
Full Breakdown
Schedule J, Section 1.2.1(B) ties every landscaped and grass area in the City to the year-round landscape irrigation measures imposed by Broward County, which are separately codified at Code of Ordinances Chapter 21, Article VI, Section 21-74. Six categories are carved out of that schedule, and the fifth is reclaimed or recovered water: reclaimed water end uses or water recovered or derived from an aquifer storage and recovery system. That means a property irrigating with reclaimed or recovered water is not bound by the County's assigned watering days or hours the way a potable-water irrigation system is.
The other exceptions cover irrigation-system repair and maintenance, athletic fields, nurseries, agricultural land and new landscaping under Florida Administrative Code Chapter 40E-24.101, fertilizer and pesticide application per manufacturer or professional guidance, and low-volume hand watering with a self-canceling shutoff nozzle. The City, Broward County or the South Florida Water Management District can still impose further restrictions under subsection (B)(6). Violating the underlying watering schedule itself, separate from the reclaimed-water exemption, carries escalating fines under subsection (C).
Violations & Fines
Irrigating outside the Broward County schedule without qualifying for an exemption is punishable under Schedule J, Section 1.2.1(C): a $50 fine for a first violation, $100 for a second, and $250 for the third and each later violation, or up to 30 days imprisonment, with every day of noncompliance treated as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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