Winter Park, FL Noise Ordinances: Leaf Blower Rules (2026)

Sec. 62-92 defines a leaf blower as any air blowing machine that uses a concentrated stream of air to push, propel, or blow dirt, dust, leaves, grass clippings, trimmings, cuttings, refuse, or debris. The hours that apply to it sit in Sec. 62-97 as power tool limits rather than in a stand-alone leaf blower ordinance.

Subsection (a)(10) bars creating a noise disturbance across a residential or commercial real property line by operating or permitting the operation of any mechanically powered saw, drill, grinder, leaf blower, lawn or garden tool or similar tool between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day. Subsection (a)(12) adds a Sunday rule: the same conduct is barred between 9:00 p.m. on Saturday and 9:00 a.m. on Sunday. Sunday's quiet morning therefore runs until 9:00 a.m. instead of the 7:00 a.m. that applies on other days.

Two details shape enforcement. The rule reaches anyone who permits the operation as well as the operator, and Sec. 62-95 separately makes an owner or lessee who is present and allows a noise disturbance to exist responsible for it. The rule also depends on the noise crossing a residential or commercial real property line, and Sec. 62-92 defines a noise disturbance to include any sound that annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities, is loud or raucous, or exceeds a dBA limit set in the division. Sec. 62-96(b) lists the factors weighed, including the level of the noise, the ambient noise, the time of day, the duration and proximity to sleeping facilities.

The text names mechanically powered tools without splitting gas from electric machines, and subsections (a)(10) and (a)(12) print no dBA figure. Sec. 62-93 exempts city refuse operations and routine maintenance of public service facilities. Construction equipment, including power saws, has its own schedule in subsections (a)(9) and (a)(11).