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

Section 18-3(a) sets the clock: daytime is 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and nighttime is 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in residential use occupancies. All time referred to in the chapter is the then current legal time in the City of Jacksonville Beach. Section 18-3(b)(1) decides who gets the residential treatment: all premises containing habitually occupied sleeping quarters are residential, hospitals, schools, and church areas are considered residential, and where several uses share a property the more restrictive category prevails.

The night window carries a lower numeric ceiling. Table I in section 18-3(d)(1) allows 70 dB(A) by day and 65 dB(A) at night for residential occupancies, and the same 70 and 65 for manufacturing, while commercial stays at 75 dB(A) around the clock. Sound that crosses from one use occupancy into another must exceed neither the limits of the use it enters nor the limits of the use it comes from.

Several time rules sit beside the night window. Operation of amplified and acoustic sound at a licensed establishment is prohibited between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. under section 18-7(b)(4)g. Under section 18-7(b)(5)e, no previously issued outside sound amplification permit is valid between 10:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. the following day. Entertainment under a special event permit must be staged between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. under section 18-3(h)(2), and non-entertainment special permits run only between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. on week days under section 18-3(i)(4). Building work is restricted to 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. by section 18-3(f).

Section 18-4 separately bars excessive, unnatural, prolonged noise at any time, even below the Table I numbers.