North Port, FL Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Discouraged hours
- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily
- Permitted use
- Lawn, garden, plant irrigation only
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 2017-04, 3-28-2017
- Penalty
- None stated in this article
Summary
North Port asks reclaimed water customers to avoid irrigating with reclaimed water between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily and to use it only for lawn, garden and plant irrigation needs.
To conserve the reclaimed water resource, the city will encourage and educate reclaimed water customers and all citizens regarding the benefits of not using reclaimed water between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on each day of the week. When applied, reclaimed water should be used only to the extent necessary for irrigation needs of lawns, gardens and individual plants.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of the City: Supplement 65 | Unified Land Development Code: Supplement 22).
Full Breakdown
City Code § 38-30, adopted to support Southwest Florida Water Management District conservation goals, has North Port "encourage and educate" reclaimed-water customers to skip using reclaimed water for irrigation between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. each day, and limits applied reclaimed water to what lawns, gardens and individual plants actually need. This is a separate, newer article (added 2017) from the city's older potable-water shortage rules in the same chapter.
Violations & Fines
No penalty is specified in Article III itself: the ordinance frames the 10 a.m.-4 p.m. reclaimed-water guidance as voluntary conservation education, not a fined restriction like the potable-water shortage article in the same chapter.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it illegal to run reclaimed-water irrigation at noon in North Port?
Does this rule also cover regular drinking water?
Sources & Official References
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