Perris, CA Filming & Production: Street Closures (2026)
Key Facts
- Special service fee
- Charged for traffic control/street closures
- Rate set by
- City manager or designee
- Underlying permit
- Filed 5 working days ahead
- Fee waived for
- Charitable, student, local-access films
- Fully exempt
- News coverage
- Insurance required
- $1,000,000 general liability minimum
- Violation
- Infraction, Sec. 1.16.010; permit revocable
Summary
When a film or TV shoot in Perris needs the city to close streets, direct traffic or arrange special utility work, Perris Municipal Code Section 5.49.050 requires the production to reimburse the city for that personnel at rates the city manager sets, on top of the underlying Chapter 5.49 filming permit and its own issuance fee.
The applicant shall pay the city for any special personnel provided or required (e.g., to control traffic, close streets, supervise special utility arrangements) at the rates established for such services by the city manager or city manager's designee.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 13).
Full Breakdown
020); permit issuance fees are waived only for charitable films made by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with no profit to anyone, student films produced as part of an accredited school program, and local access productions, and news coverage is exempt from the permit requirement entirely. 040); an expedited fee lets a production shorten that five-day window. 030). 050 then covers the cost of city services beyond the basic permit: if the shoot needs the city to control traffic, close streets or supervise special utility arrangements, the applicant pays for that personnel at rates the city manager or the manager's designee sets, separate from the permit issuance fee. 080).
Violations & Fines
Failing to pay for the traffic-control or street-closure personnel the city provides is a failure to abide by the permit's terms, which Perris Municipal Code Section 5.49.090 makes grounds for the city manager or designee to revoke the filming permit outright. That same section makes any violation of Chapter 5.49, including closing streets without the required city-provided personnel, an infraction punishable as provided in Perris Municipal Code Section 1.16.010.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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