St. Johns County Ordinance 2015-19 allows leaf blowers, mowers, and domestic power tools during the day but makes their use unlawful between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. daily when noise crosses a residential property line.
St. Johns County writes lawn equipment straight into its noise ordinance rather than banning it. Between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. daily it is unlawful to run a noise-producing domestic power tool used to maintain a property so that excessively loud or raucous noise travels across any residential property line. Outside those hours, blowers, mowers, and trimmers are permitted, and equipment must be properly muffled and maintained. There is no gas-blower ban countywide. Nocatee, World Golf Village, and other CDD/HOA landscaping rules are frequently stricter than the county window.
Running yard equipment across a residential line between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is citable after a warning, with fines of $53 to $500. HOAs enforce their own landscaping-hour covenants civilly.
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