This 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.
(1) Definitions.
(a) "Department" means the Florida Department
of Transportation.
(b) "Commercial
Activities" means displaying merchandise for sale or distribution, servicing,
repairing or storing any vehicle for profit, or displaying advertising of any
sort.
(c) "Limited Access Facility"
means as defined in Section
334.03(13),
F.S.
(d) "Local Governmental
Entity" means as defined in Section
334.03(14),
F.S.
(e) "Special Event" means an
art festival, parade, charity drive, fair, fund drive, race, run, motorcade, or
similar activities of local interest.
(f) "Filming" means the activities involved
in the creation of visual media, including film, broadcast, or video
production.
(g) "State Road" means
as defined in Section
334.03(27),
F.S.
(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.
(2)
Exceptions:
For purposes of this rule chapter, special events and filming
that do not require prior written approval include the following:
(a) A motorcade when no traffic lanes are
closed and law enforcement personnel control traffic at each
intersection;
(b) A run,
walk-a-thon, or bicycle event accompanied by a police escort and when there is
no detour of traffic;
(c) A parade
route which only intersects a state road and when law enforcement personnel
control the traffic at those intersections;
(d) Broadcast news, or other filming, that
does not require a temporary closure, obeys traffic regulations, and does not
impair vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
