Jacksonville Beach, FL Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

Subsection (f) of the Jacksonville Beach noise limitations section is headed Building operations. It makes it unlawful for any person to erect (including excavate), demolish, alter, or repair any building other than between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The same sentence continues with the words "or at any time on Sundays or the following observed holidays," and then lists New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The printed wording groups Sundays and those six holidays into the same clause as the Monday through Saturday window, so a contractor planning Sunday or holiday work should ask the city manager's office how section 18-3(f) is applied before relying on either reading.

The one stated exception is urgent necessity in the interest of public safety, and then only with a permit approved by the city manager. That permit can be renewed for a period of three (3) days or less while the emergency continues.

Separately, section 18-3(g)(6) exempts noises resulting from emergency work from the noise level regulations, and section 18-3(a) defines emergency work as work made necessary to protect persons or property from exposure to danger. Section 18-3(i) creates special permits for non-entertainment special purposes, limited to hours between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on week days and to no longer than one week, but that subsection does not name construction.

Responsibility reaches past the crew. Section 18-5(c) makes the owner, tenant or lessee of the property, or a manager, overseer or agent, or any person lawfully entitled to possess the property, responsible for compliance, and each can be punished. It is not a lawful defense to say some other person caused the noise. The Table I decibel limits in section 18-3(d) keep applying to the noise itself unless an exemption or permit covers it.