Illegal Cooking Oil Dumping Fine Miami-Dade, FL
It is illegal to dump used cooking oil anywhere in Miami, the fine are $570 first offence and $1, 150 second, this law falls under Ordinance 18-22.
A Wynwood burger shack learned the hard way: a five-gallon spill hit the storm drain on Tuesday and a $570 citation landed Friday. Grease Connections locks every kitchen onto a ninety day pump-out, uploads manifests automatically, and leaves nothing for inspectors to flag.
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Jorge Argota
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How Miami-Dade Enforces it
Storm-drain cameras, police spill logs, and citizen photos feed the FOG office each morning. When footage ties a license number to a discharge, a civil citation prints the same day and an inspector visits within a week. Repeat offenders go before Environmental Court, where judges can add community-service
hours on top of the $1 150 fine.
The law appears in Ordinance 18-22. Download the county PDF
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*Last checked 16 May 2025 — next review Aug 2025
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