Boca Raton, FL Privacy & Surveillance: Security Camera Rules (2026)

Section 19-67(4) lists what electrical permits are not required for, and item (d) is low voltage wireless camera or video equipment, right alongside item (c), low voltage wireless burglar alarm systems. That means a resident can mount a doorbell camera or a wireless security camera without pulling an electrical permit, so long as the installation stays low voltage and wireless rather than being hardwired into a new circuit or panel. If the camera install requires new wiring or panel work outside that low-voltage exemption, it falls back under the general permit rule in Sec.

19-62 like any other electrical work. Separately, Chapter 9's Boca Raton Police and Fire Alarm Ordinance (Sec. ) defines 'monitoring' to include signals from a closed circuit television camera that triggers a law enforcement or fire/rescue response, but that article's registration duties attach to alarm systems, not to a standalone camera used only for personal recording. Commercial alarm systems must register annually with the city under Sec. 9-33, while residential alarm system registration under Sec. 9-34 is voluntary, and Sec. 9-38 makes clear that a false alarm, including one at a single-family home, is treated as a public nuisance carrying a service fee set by the city's fee schedule.

A resident whose camera is wired into a monitored alarm system that dispatches police therefore falls under the alarm article's rules even though the camera hardware itself needed no permit to install.