Ocala, FL Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

City Code § 34-174 lists the activities excused from the general excessive-noise prohibition in § 34-173, and item (7) covers 'the operation of buses, trains, ships, airplanes, helicopters and trucks in good repair.' That means the ordinary engine, brake, and idling noise of a delivery truck making a normal round in the City of Ocala is not, by itself, an excessive-noise violation, even though the same noise from a passenger vehicle could meet the motor vehicle noise definition in § 34-172(4) if it is plainly audible 50 feet away.

The qualifier 'in good repair' is the operative limit: a truck with a damaged muffler, a failing exhaust system, or mechanical noise beyond normal operation falls outside the exemption and is treated like any other vehicle under § 34-172(4) and § 34-173(a). The exemption sits alongside separate carve-outs in the same section for emergency alerts, permitted road festivals and parades, educational and sporting-venue sound, ordinary domestic noise, government road and utility construction, and permitted construction between sunrise and sunset. Because § 34-174 exempts specific activities rather than specific hours, a delivery truck is not limited to daytime deliveries by this ordinance alone; the exemption simply removes properly maintained truck operation from the excessive-noise definition regardless of time of day.