14-65.0025. Scope, Definitions, and Exceptions  


Effective on Monday, June 25, 2012
  • 1This rule chapter specifies procedures for obtaining a prior written approval from the Department when necessary to conduct a special event, and the requirements for filming on a state road.

    31(1) Definitions.

    33(a) “Department” means the Florida Department of Transportation.

    41(b) “Commercial Activities” means displaying merchandise for sale or distribution, servicing, repairing or storing any vehicle for profit, or displaying advertising of any sort.

    65(c) “Limited Access Facility” means as defined in Section 74334.03(13), F.S.

    76(d) “Local Governmental Entity” means as defined in Section 85334.03(14), F.S.

    87(e) “Special Event” means an art festival, parade, charity drive, fair, fund drive, race, run, motorcade, or similar activities of local interest.

    109(f) “Filming” means the activities involved in the creation of visual media, including film, broadcast, or video production.

    127(g) “State Road” means as defined in Section 135334.03(27), F.S.

    137(h) “Temporary Closing” means the stopping, detouring, or otherwise restricting traffic flow of one or more vehicle traffic lanes of a state road for a cumulative period of fifteen minutes or more.

    169(2) Exceptions:

    171For purposes of this rule chapter, special events and filming that do not require prior written approval include the following:

    191(a) A motorcade when no traffic lanes are closed and law enforcement personnel control traffic at each intersection;

    209(b) A run, walk-a-thon, or bicycle event accompanied by a police escort and when there is no detour of traffic;

    229(c) A parade route which only intersects a state road and when law enforcement personnel control the traffic at those intersections;

    250(d) Broadcast news, or other filming, that does not require a temporary closure, obeys traffic regulations, and does not impair vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

    274Rulemaking Authority 276334.044(2), 277335.10 FS. 279Law Implemented 281316.003, 282316.006(1), 283316.008, 284334.03, 285337.406 FS. 287History–New 1-19-89, Amended 4-15-92, 12-31-96, 6-25-12.

     

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