Palm Coast, FL Noise Ordinances: Construction Hours (2026)

Sec. 35-52(7) prohibits operating construction equipment or appliances between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. if the work is attended by loud and raucous noise, with exceptions for urgent necessity, restoring interrupted public utilities, or work covered by a City-issued permit or written agreement. Sec. 35-60, adopted separately under Ordinance No. 2004-26, imposes a Sunday-specific version of the same restriction: construction equipment causing loud and disturbing or disruptive noise cannot run between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or before 9:00 a.m. on Sundays, again with exceptions for urgent necessity, utility restoration, or a City-issued permit or agreement.

Sec. 35-60 also restates the rest of Division 2's specific prohibitions, on horns, amplified sound, animal noise and yelling between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., as applying separately to Sunday conduct. Outside those curfew hours, construction noise gets favorable treatment: Sec. 35-54(3) exempts construction operations for which building permits have been issued, or which are covered by a written City agreement, from the decibel-level regulations altogether, provided the equipment runs with standard manufacturer mufflers and noise-reducing equipment in proper working order between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Lawn mowers and agricultural equipment used during daylight hours get the same exemption under Sec. 35-54(1).