Orange County, FL Filming & Production: Production Noise (2026)

Section 21-36 lists seven findings the county administrator must make before issuing a motion photography production permit, and the sixth is a stand-alone noise test: the production activity must not result in noise of a level inappropriate for the areas surrounding the assembly. That sits alongside findings that the shoot will not unduly disrupt traffic, will not divert so many sheriff's deputies or fire-rescue personnel that other areas lose normal protection, will not endanger persons or provoke disorderly conduct, will have adequate sanitary facilities, and will not threaten public health, welfare, or safety (Section 21-36(a)(1)-(7)).

Noise reaches this ordinance even earlier, at the definition stage. Section 21-33 defines "motion photography" to include any private-property production, not filmed at a studio, that is emitting noise sufficient to violate chapter 15, article V, pertaining to noise control. That means a shoot on private land that would otherwise need no permit at all is pulled into the permitting scheme the moment its sound levels cross into what the county's separate noise-control ordinance treats as unlawful. The Board of County Commissioners implements the noise standard, along with the other six findings, through resolution-adopted rules and procedures the county administrator applies case by case, and those rules must conform to the standards set out in Section 21-36(a) (Section 21-36(b)).