Middleburg, FL

Clay County outlaws driving an unmuffled motor vehicle and running or racing a racing vehicle's engine near residential land. A muffler must abate engine noise at least as effectively…

Clay County bans artificially amplified sound, speakers, radios, and media players, that disturbs a neighbor's peace and quiet. Section 15-5(c) makes it unlawful if amplified noise is…

A dog that barks, howls, bays, or whines for five straight minutes audible at the property line violates Clay County Code § 15-5(b). The keeper, owner, tenant, or on-site manager is…

Clay County levies a 5% Tourist Development Tax on rentals of living quarters and accommodations for six months or less, collected locally by the county tax collector instead of the…

Clay County lets a homeowner build a swimming pool on his own residence property without holding a pool contractor's license, but the pool still needs a building permit under the…

Clay County Code § 15-3.3(b)(2) makes it unlawful to feed, cause to be fed, or leave foodstuffs for any animal, deer, geese, ducks, or strays included, in or on any county park…

Clay County classifies dogs as aggressive or dangerous based on documented bites or attacks under section 4-34, not on breed. A dog that severely injures a person or animal without…

Clay County's animal-at-large and leash-style restraint law explicitly excludes cats, so free-roaming cats are not violating the general at-large ordinance. The one cat-specific duty…

Clay County does not require blanket spay/neuter of all pets, but any dog or cat impounded for running at large must be sterilized, or the owner must post a $500 refundable deposit and…

Clay County makes it unlawful for an owner to let any animal, dogs included, run at large on public or private property, and defines 'at large' as not being on a leash, chain, under…

Clay County bans commercial retail sale of dogs and cats outright, with a narrow grandfather clause: only establishments already lawfully selling dogs or cats as of March 31, 2022 may…

Clay County does not require every pet to be microchipped up front, but section 4-22(e) makes it mandatory before any impounded animal goes home: the county rabies-vaccinates and…

Clay County requires an approved tree preservation plan before removal work begins on commercial, industrial, or public development sites, and no building permit issues without one…

Clay County limits outdoor irrigation to two set days a week and never between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., splitting odd-numbered addresses, even-numbered addresses, and nonresidential…

Clay County's landscaping code encourages, but does not require, using native plant material in the mandatory landscaping installed around nonresidential parking lots and paved areas…

Clay County's landscaping code will not let artificial turf or synthetic plants count toward the mandatory plant coverage required around nonresidential parking lots and paved areas in…

Clay County bans parking or stopping in a long list of spots on unincorporated county roads and in the City of Keystone Heights: on sidewalks, in intersections, on crosswalks, in front…

Keeping a junk or abandoned vehicle on public or private property anywhere in Clay County is against the code, and the process is the same either way: the enforcement officer posts a…

Clay County's solid waste ordinance bans burning garbage in the open, countywide, in both the incorporated and unincorporated areas. Separately, the county's fire prevention code…

Clay County declared a fire-danger state of emergency in 2004 that the county manager keeps extending in successive week-long increments, and under it, selling, using, discharging or…

Clay County's Property Safety and Maintenance Code lets the building official order repair, securing or demolition of any unsafe building in the unincorporated area. Owners get 60 days…

Clay County does not require fire sprinklers in single-family detached homes. A single-family dwelling is exempt from fire marshal plan review entirely unless the owner chooses to…

Clay County requires plumbing work to comply with the Standard Plumbing Code, and its local amendment bans type M copper piping under a slab, mandates a backflow preventer between the…

Clay County's building official inspects permitted work at various stages and again at completion, dispatches inspectors on a set schedule, logs approval or disapproval of every visit…

Clay County requires a building permit before anyone constructs, alters, repairs, removes or demolishes a building or structure in the unincorporated area, filed with and issued by the…

Every electrical permit the Clay County building department issues must comply with the latest edition of the National Electrical Code, one of eleven technical codes adopted under §…

Clay County parks close outside their posted public hours. Section 15-3.3(d) makes it unlawful to enter or remain on any county park, recreation facility, or conservation area outside…

Clay County bars anyone 16 or under from public places or businesses from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday nights, and from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. on Friday and…

Clay County's local amendment to the Florida Building Code, Residential requires the lowest floor of any building in a flood hazard area outside a Coastal A Zone to sit at or above the…

Clay County sets two hurricane wind-speed design zones under section 6-6 of the Code, tracking the Florida Building Code's wind maps: a 110 mph line along State Road 15/U.S. 17 and a…

When Clay County declares a state of local emergency after a hurricane or other catastrophic disaster, the county manager activates the disaster-generated debris removal plan under…

Clay County bans smoking, vaping, and tobacco product use anywhere on county park property. Section 15-3.3(l) prohibits lighting a cigarette, using an e-cigarette, or otherwise using…

Clay County bans skateboards, skates, rollerblades, bicycles, and scooters on county park property unless a posted sign says otherwise. Section 15-3.3(h) defines any wheeled…

Clay County bans drinking alcoholic beverages on any county-owned property or county park, and separately makes it unlawful to consume alcohol within 300 feet of a business licensed…

Bars and clubs in unincorporated Clay County cannot let amplified sound carry past their property line between midnight and 7 a.m. Section 15-5(c)(3) applies the boundary-line test…

Clay County makes it a civil infraction to run a car media player, radio or sound system loud enough that a person of ordinary hearing can pick it up inside another vehicle's fully…

Within the Branan Field Corridor and Greater Lake Asbury District, Clay County bans cutting, removing, damaging, or killing any protected tree without a county-approved tree…

Closing a county road for a block party or any other event in unincorporated Clay County requires an event permit before the first barricade goes up. The Event Permit article treats…

Any gathering in unincorporated Clay County expected to draw 500 or more people counts as a regulated 'event' and needs a county event permit before it happens. The permit runs through…

Any vendor selling food, goods, or services at a permitted street fair or festival in unincorporated Clay County must be named on the event's site plan and follow the licensing rules…

Clay County's illicit discharge ordinance bans dumping anything but stormwater into its municipal separate storm sewer system or a private stormwater system, with narrow carve-outs…

Every excavation in unincorporated Clay County must use erosion and sedimentation control best management practices at least as protective as the state's inspector manual. The county's…

Clay County amended the Florida Building Code to route every request to vary the state's flood hazard construction rules through the variance procedures of its own Land Development…

Franchised haulers must supply Clay County commercial customers with covered, watertight containers from 2 to 50 cubic yards, marked with the hauler's name and phone number in a…

Clay County's solid waste franchise ordinance requires every hand-pickup customer to receive weekly curbside collection of recyclables placed in approved bins or bundles, the same…

Clay County's solid waste ordinance lets a franchised hauler skip a household's collection outright if garbage, rubbish or yard trash is mixed in with the recyclables, or if trash is…

Clay County's public policy under Code of Ordinances § 10-52 is periodic, timely and continuous garbage, trash and refuse collection across the unincorporated county, delivered through…

Clay County residents may mulch or compost their own yard trash on-site under the solid waste ordinance, but any yard trash they don't compost has to be kept separate from garbage…

Clay County bans dumping litter of any kind on public roads, waterways or private property without the owner's consent under Code of Ordinances § 10-1. Violators face a second-degree…

In unincorporated Clay County, hand-pickup customers cannot set Receptacles and Bundles at the curb more than 12 hours before collection day, and everything must be out by 6:00 a.m. on…

Clay County lets residents opt out of door-to-door sales by posting a "No Solicitors" sign, which a peddler must check for and obey before knocking. Even without a sign, soliciting at…

Clay County requires a license before anyone can operate, manage, or work at an adult entertainment establishment or sexually oriented business in the unincorporated county. Only one…

Clay County does not issue its own tobacco retail license; state law under Chapter 569, Florida Statutes handles that. Instead, Article III of Chapter 15 bans tobacco retailers from…