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.
East Baton Rouge Parish addresses light trespass through the UDC rather than a standalone nuisance-lighting law. Under the overlay and site-development lighting standards (Chapter 10), light must be shielded from adjacent properties so that no more than five foot-candles (and, in some overlay contexts, 0.5 foot-candle) extend across the property line, and pole fixtures must be full cut-off. For illuminated signs, UDC Section 16.2.3 requires that lighting avoid glare and prohibits sign light that is detrimental to adjacent residential property, defined as artificial light greater than two foot-candles falling eight feet outside the sign's boundary. Ordinary neighbor-to-neighbor glare from home fixtures is otherwise handled as a general nuisance. Baker, Zachary and Central apply their own codes.
Lighting that exceeds the foot-candle limits at a property line, or a sign that casts more than two foot-candles onto a neighbor, is a UDC violation subject to correction and City-Parish enforcement.
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