Polk County has no residential light-trespass ordinance. The LDC bars signs bright enough to glare onto adjoining residential property and requires development parking lighting to be aimed away from neighbors, but light spilling from one home to another is generally a private nuisance matter.
There is no Polk County ordinance that caps how much light may cross onto a neighbor's residential lot from an ordinary home fixture. The closest LDC controls apply to development, not houses: Section 760.E.4 prohibits signs so bright they glare onto adjoining residential property, and Section 730.H requires parking- and loading-area lighting to be shielded or aimed away from adjacent properties and roadways. For a neighbor's floodlight shining into your windows, the County has no light-trespass code to enforce; the usual remedy is a private nuisance claim showing the light unreasonably interferes with your property. Inside a city, that city's lighting ordinance applies. Asking the owner to reaim or shield the fixture often resolves it fastest.
Because the County has no residential light-trespass ordinance, there is no county citation for a neighbor's spill light; the remedy is a private nuisance action, unless the source is a sign or parking-lot light regulated by the LDC.
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