Tampa, FL Filming & Production: Production Noise (2026)

Sec. 17(8) is short but binding: the conduct of the production activity shall not result in noise of a level that would violate the provisions of this code, or that would be otherwise inappropriate for the areas surrounding the production activity. That folds a film set into the general noise ordinance rather than giving it a separate decibel allowance. Outside the Ybor City Historic District and Arena District (governed separately by Sec. 14-153), Sec. 14-154 makes it unlawful for any person to permit, cause, allow, create, emit, or sustain unreasonably excessive noise from a property.

An officer weighs whether the sound is plainly audible or causes vibration inside an enclosed structure on a complainant's property, how long it lasts, and how often it recurs. Sec. , sound plainly audible a minimum of one hundred (100) feet from the property line of the source is prima facie evidence of an unreasonably excessive noise violation. A production company running generators, PA systems, gunfire effects, or amplified dialogue overnight near a residential set therefore needs to keep the set quiet enough that it isn't audible 100 feet away, or risk a citation independent of whether the film permit itself is in good standing.