Neither Morris County nor New Jersey has a statewide light-trespass law. Whether spillover light onto a neighbor's property is prohibited depends on your municipality's lighting or nuisance ordinance. Many NJ towns' model lighting ordinances limit illumination crossing property lines; some address excessive holiday displays.
Light trespass, illumination spilling past your property line onto a neighbor's land, is regulated only where a municipality has adopted a lighting or nuisance ordinance (N.J.S.A. 40:55D authorizes municipal zoning). New Jersey has no statewide standard. Model ordinances promoted by DarkSky New Jersey and Sustainable Jersey commonly cap the light level measured at a residential property line and require shielded fixtures aimed downward. Some towns also treat extreme, glaring displays as a nuisance. In Morris County, check your township code for any property-line illumination limits, or raise persistent spillover as a private nuisance matter. The county itself does not enforce residential light-trespass rules.
In towns with a lighting ordinance, offending fixtures can draw a zoning notice and fines; otherwise persistent light spillover may be pursued as a private nuisance in municipal or civil court.
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