6 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 3 cities in Pasco County, Florida.
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Pasco County's noise ordinance prohibits noise from musical instruments, sound amplifiers, juke boxes, radios, and televisions emanating from a building, structure, or property between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. when received within a residential district. The ordinance applies in all unincorporated areas of the county.
Pasco County, Fla., Ordinance amending Code § 66-97, § 2 (Applicability) (2008)
For purposes of jurisdictional applicability, this Ordinance shall apply in all unincorporated areas of the county. This Ordinance shall apply in a municipality within Pasco County only if the municipality expressly adopts this ordinance and repeals all ordinances inconsistent with these provisions.
Pasco County Code § 66-97 prohibits construction activities that produce noise exceeding 55 dBA at an adjacent residential property line between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday. Power-driven construction equipment must be operated with an effective muffler.
Pasco County, Fla., Ordinance CAO08-0808, recital (findings on current noise limits) (2008)
WHEREAS, the county's current noise ordinance prohibits daytime commercial noise exceeding 60 dBA and industrial noise exceeding 66 dBA (55 dBA at night and on Sundays) measured at the nearest closest adjacent residentially-zoned property line.
Pasco County Code § 66-97 prohibits frequent, repetitive, or continuous sounds made by any animal that emanate from a building, structure, or property and are received within a residential district. Persistent barking is also addressable as a public nuisance under Florida law.
Fla. Stat. § 823.01 (2024)
All nuisances that tend to annoy the community, injure the health of the citizens in general, or corrupt the public morals are misdemeanors of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.083, except that a violation of s. 823.10 is a felony of the third degree.
Pasco County has no leaf blower-specific ordinance. General noise rules under Code of Ordinances Chapter 46 apply. Gas blowers are permitted year-round outside quiet hours, with heavy landscaping activity in Wesley Chapel master-planned communities and New Port Richey.
Pasco County Code § 66-97 prohibits sound from sound amplifiers, loudspeakers, juke boxes, radios, and similar devices received in a residential district between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. For amplified sound from a vehicle, Florida Statute § 316.3045 makes it unlawful statewide for the sound to be plainly audible 25 feet or more from the vehicle.
Fla. Stat. § 316.3045(1) (2024)
A person operating or occupying a motor vehicle on a street or highway may not operate or amplify the sound produced by a radio, tape player, compact disc player, portable music or video player, cellular telephone, tablet computer, laptop computer, stereo, television, musical instrument, or other mechanical or electronic soundmaking device or instrument, which sound emanates from the motor vehi...
No Pasco County-specific ordinance regulates aircraft noise, because federal law preempts the field. Congress vests the United States with exclusive sovereignty over U.S. airspace under 49 U.S.C. § 40103, and the Supreme Court held in City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973) that local aircraft-noise curfews are preempted.
49 U.S.C. § 40103(a)(1)
The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States.
3 cities in Pasco County have their own noise ordinances rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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