Texas counties cannot zone, so unincorporated El Paso County has no light-trespass ordinance. Light spilling onto a neighbor's property is not handled by a county lighting code; the usual remedy is a private nuisance claim under Texas common law, or a city ordinance inside city limits.
Light trespass, where outdoor lighting shines onto an adjoining property, is not addressed by any El Paso County order, because Texas counties lack zoning and nuisance-code authority over private lighting, and the county has adopted no outdoor-lighting order. No county office enforces shielding or caps light at the property line the way a city code-enforcement division would. A resident bothered by a neighbor's floodlight or a business's parking-lot lights in the unincorporated county generally must rely on a private nuisance action in court, showing the light substantially and unreasonably interferes with their property. Inside a city, that city's ordinances apply instead. Neighbors are often best served by asking the owner to reaim or shield a fixture first.
The unincorporated county imposes no lighting penalties, so there is no county citation for light trespass; a bothered neighbor's remedy is a private nuisance lawsuit, or a complaint to a city code office if the property is inside city limits.
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