Tamarac, FL Code Violation Reporting: How to Report (2026)

Section 9-95 of the City of Tamarac Code sets the enforcement procedure for every noise offense in Article III, and subsection (a) governs how a citizen actually files a complaint. Registering an alleged noise disturbance is not as simple as a phone call: the resident must sign a sworn statement that includes the details of the complaint before a law enforcement or code enforcement officer is authorized to investigate and cite the alleged offender. Once the city receives that sworn complaint, subsection (a) requires the code enforcement division or law enforcement agency to investigate and verify whether a violation actually occurred, rather than citing automatically on the resident's say-so.

Subsection (b) makes clear this sworn-statement process is not the only path to a citation: an officer from the Broward Sheriff's Office, which polices Tamarac by contract, or the city's code enforcement division may cite an alleged offender based on the officer's own direct observation, whether or not any citizen complaint was ever filed. Under subsection (c), once a complaint is verified or a violation independently observed, the investigating agency must generate a written report documenting the date, time and the officer's observations, which becomes the record used at a special magistrate hearing under subsection (d).

Because the sworn-statement requirement carries the risk of a false-statement charge if the complaint is untruthful, the ordinance is written to discourage frivolous or anonymous noise complaints while still allowing direct enforcement action for violations an officer witnesses firsthand.