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

Sec. 13-263 folds noise straight into the trigger for needing a permit at all: a production on private property away from a studio counts as regulated motion photography if it is emitting noise sufficient to violate the noise ordinance of Lake County, alongside erecting tents or using pyrotechnics. Once an applicant files under Sec. 13-265, the county manager has to run the request through the seven issuance standards in Sec. 13-266 before granting a permit, and standard (6) is aimed directly at sound: the county manager must be satisfied that the conduct of the production activity will not result in noise of a level inappropriate for the areas surrounding the assembly.

Sec. 13-266 also lets the county manager attach conditions regarding the location, type, duration and hours of the production when issuing the permit, which in practice is how noise-generating scenes such as gunfire effects, generators, amplified dialogue, or pyrotechnic explosions get restricted to specific hours or locations rather than refused outright. A production that also uses incendiary or explosive special effects has to separately name, in the application, the pyrotechnician or other qualified person handling those effects and their state or federal licensing, on top of the $5,000,000 liability coverage Sec. 13-265(b)(4) requires for that category of production.