Titusville code enforcement

Titusville Code Enforcement, an office the city files under the Police Department, enforces municipal, land development and property maintenance codes from 1100 John Glenn Boulevard.

The city describes the office's job as eliminating conditions that threaten the life, health, safety and general welfare of Titusville residents, and says officers both run proactive patrols and investigate complaints about possible violations (Titusville Code Enforcement page). The office answers at 321-567-3770, takes faxes at 321-264-7865 and keeps hours of Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm (Code Enforcement contact block). That page sits in the Police menu next to pages for a Special Magistrate, foreclosure property registration and a Good Neighbor Guide, so a Titusville owner with a hearing notice or a bank-owned house will find the related pages in the same menu.

The legal footing is the Titusville Land Development Regulations. Section 34-318 gives Code Enforcement Officers the primary responsibility for enforcing the codes and starting proceedings under Chapters 162 and 166 of the Florida Statutes (Titusville LDR Chapter 34, Article VI). The same article states its intent as an efficient and effective method of enforcing the laws and codes in force in the City of Titusville.

A Titusville code complaint is filed through the city's CitizenServe online portal, and the person filing must give a verifiable name and address because anonymous complaints are no longer investigated.

The Titusville Submit a Complaint page says the online service lets residents search addresses for active and closed code enforcement cases, register to send in a current complaint, enter code complaints and attach photos (Titusville Submit a Complaint page). The registration link points to the CitizenServe portal at installation 403. The case search is the practical first step for a Titusville neighbor: if a case is already open at the address, the record shows it before a second complaint is filed.

The name rule comes from state law. Titusville's Code Enforcement page says Chapter 162 of Florida law changed effective July 1, 2021, and that its officers are no longer allowed to investigate anonymous complaints (Titusville Code Enforcement page). Florida Statutes section 162.06 puts it this way: a code inspector may not initiate enforcement proceedings by way of an anonymous complaint, and a person reporting a potential violation must provide his or her name and address to the local government before an enforcement proceeding may occur (Florida Statutes 162.06). The statute keeps an exception when the inspector has reason to believe the violation presents an imminent threat to public health, safety or welfare, so a hazard at a Titusville property is not blocked by the name rule.

A Titusville Code Enforcement Officer who finds a violation gives the owner written notice and a reasonable time to correct it, and a violation that continues past that time goes to the Code Enforcement Board for a hearing.

Section 34-320 of the Titusville Land Development Regulations sets the sequence: written notice to the alleged violator with a reasonable time to correct; if the violation continues, the officer files a request for hearing and statement of violation with the Clerk of the Board; the board's clerical staff then schedules a hearing (Titusville LDR Article VI). Hearing notice goes by certified mail with return receipt, by hand delivery from the Sheriff, a law enforcement officer or a code officer, or by leaving it at the residence with a person older than 15, and the board may add publication or posting. A violation that is corrected and then recurs, or one not corrected by the deadline, may still be presented to the Titusville board even if it was fixed before the hearing.

Two shortcuts exist in the Titusville code. Under Section 34-318, when an officer believes a violation presents a serious threat to the public health, safety or welfare, the case may go to a hearing with the approval of the Director of Community Development without first allowing time to correct (Titusville LDR Section 34-318). Under Section 34-321, a repeat violation, meaning a violation of the same provision by a person the Titusville Code Enforcement Board has already found in violation, is scheduled for hearing without a correction period. Florida Statutes section 162.06 adds that a corrected repeat violation can still be heard to set costs and enforcement fees (Florida Statutes 162.06).

A Titusville code citation carries a civil penalty of $100 for a single citation, $250 for a second and $500 for each additional one, under Section 34-319 of the Land Development Regulations.

Citations are an alternative to the board process in Titusville. Section 34-319 makes any violation of the Code of Ordinances and the regulations a civil infraction with a civil penalty not to exceed $500.00, and before issuing a citation the officer gives notice and sets a correction period of no more than 30 days, unless the violation is a serious threat or is irreparable or irreversible (Titusville LDR Section 34-319). A Titusville citation may be paid at the scheduled amount within 15 days, or contested in county court, which may impose a civil penalty not to exceed $500.00. Each citation lists the code section violated, the facts constituting reasonable cause, the name and authority of the officer, and the applicable penalty both if the person contests the citation and if the person does not.

Board fines run per day. Florida Statutes section 162.09 lets an enforcement board fine a violator for each day the violation continues past the date set for compliance, and a certified copy of the order, once recorded, becomes a lien on the land and on other real or personal property the violator owns (Florida Statutes 162.09). The same section lets a county or city with a population of 50,000 or more adopt higher limits by ordinance, passed by a majority plus one of the entire governing body. The Titusville nuisance chapter applies the same ceilings in its own words, stating that repeat violations of the lot maintenance rule may be subject to fines up to $500.00 per day (Titusville Code Chapter 13).

Titusville treats grass, weeds or wild growth over 12 inches tall, accumulated debris and stagnant water on qualifying lots as a public nuisance under Section 13-26 of the city code.

When the city finds such a condition, Section 13-29 directs a notice to the owner of record by certified mail at the address in the county tax appraiser's records, and the city may do the work itself at the rates on file in the code enforcement division plus an administrative charge of $75.00 for the first notice, $85.00 for the second and $150.00 for the third (Titusville Code Chapter 13). The Titusville notice form gives the owner ten calendar days to eliminate the nuisance. An owner who disagrees files a written appeal with the city clerk within ten days, and the Titusville City Council decides at its next regular meeting whether the nuisance exists; that determination is final under Section 13-31.

Unpaid cleanup bills become a lien in Titusville. Section 13-32 says that if the owner does not pay within 30 days, the expense automatically constitutes a lien on the property, payable with interest at ten percent per annum, and the city may sue to foreclose after 60 days (Titusville Code Chapter 13, Section 13-32). Vehicles have their own clock: no one may allow an inoperative vehicle to remain on Titusville property longer than 72 hours, and only one inoperative vehicle at a time is allowed during that period, with exceptions for a fully enclosed structure or a carport with an opaque weather-resistant cover.

Titusville's noise ordinance caps sound at the property line at 55 dBA by day and 50 dBA at night in residential districts, 60 dBA in commercial districts and 65 dBA in industrial districts.

Section 13-102 measures sound at or beyond the property boundary over a period of at least ten minutes, and a source may not exceed the limit for more than ten percent of that period; where two districts meet, the more restrictive limit applies (Titusville Code Chapter 13, Article IV). The downtown Titusville commercial core in the table is the area south of Garden Street, west of Indian River Avenue, east of the railroad tracks and north of South Street. Motor vehicle noise on streets is left out of the decibel limits.

The Titusville ordinance lists exemptions: permitted construction between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. every day except Sunday, lawn mowers between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., church bells and chimes, emergency work and vehicles, and normal aircraft operations (Titusville noise exemptions). Relief for an event is requested in writing from the city manager; an entertainment permit must be open to the public, held on public property, staged between 9:00 a.m. and midnight and limited to four hours in a day. Section 13-103 also bars sounds that are excessive, prolonged or unusual even when no decibel limit is broken.

Properties in unincorporated Brevard County outside Titusville city limits fall under Brevard County Code Compliance at (321) 633-2086, not the Titusville office.

Brevard County tells residents to check jurisdiction on the Property Appraiser's site: open Property Research, find the parcel and click the number in the Millage Code field, which shows whether the address is in a city such as Titusville or in unincorporated Brevard County (Brevard County code enforcement FAQ). The county office sits at 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera. Its approach differs from Titusville's proactive patrols: the Board of County Commissioners has directed county Code Enforcement to respond only to citizen complaints at specific addresses or locations, except for issues of health and safety, and a resident with a county Notice of Violation calls (321) 633-2086 to reach the assigned officer.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, with same-day reads of the Titusville Code Enforcement and Submit a Complaint pages, Titusville Code Chapter 13 and Land Development Regulations Chapter 34 on Municode, Florida Statutes 162.06 and 162.09, and the Brevard County code enforcement FAQ.