2 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
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East Baton Rouge Parish has no parish-wide dark-sky ordinance for ordinary home yard lighting. The UDC defines full-cut-off and fully-shielded fixtures and requires them in overlay districts and larger developments, where pole lights must be full cut-off to limit glare and light trespass.
Baton Rouge/EBRP UDC Ch. 19 (Definitions)
Fixture, Full Cut-Off: a luminaire or light fixture that, by design of the housing, does not allow any light dispersion or direct glare to shine above a 90 degree, horizontal plane from the base of the fixture and that is installed in a vertical position to prevent disability glare.
In City-Parish overlay and development standards, lighting must be shielded so no more than five foot-candles cross a property line. Separately, the UDC sign rules bar sign lighting that puts more than two foot-candles eight feet outside the sign's property boundary.
Baton Rouge/EBRP UDC 16.2.3(B)
Sign lighting shall not be detrimental to adjacent residential property as determined by any artificial light greater than two footcandles falling eight feet outside the boundaries of the property on which the sign is located.
1 cities in East Baton Rouge Parish have their own outdoor lighting rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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