Outdoor Lighting in Louisiana (2026)

Bossier City's Unified Development Code requires cut-off (shielded) light fixtures on nonresidential properties under…

Unincorporated Bossier Parish requires outdoor lighting to be arranged so its source is hidden from neighboring…

Caddo Parish caps a cutoff-type outdoor light fixture at 25 feet in total height, and anything taller now needs a…

East Baton Rouge Parish has no parish-wide dark-sky ordinance for ordinary home yard lighting. The UDC defines…

Jefferson Parish bans mercury-vapor fixtures outright on covered sites and caps outdoor lighting height by zoning…

In the City of Kenner, the light source of every outdoor fixture must be concealed and invisible from the street or an…

The CZO requires exterior lighting to be fully shielded and directed downward. Light poles and building-mounted…

Shreveport has adopted no dark-sky ordinance, no International Dark-Sky Association standard and no lamp…

Unincorporated St. Tammany Parish requires full cutoff, shielded fixtures for most outdoor lighting and caps footcandle…

In unincorporated Ascension Parish, the Unified Land Development Code sets a minimal exterior lighting standard at UDC…

Within a Lake Charles Traditional Neighborhood Development, Sec. 24-5-309(2.15) requires all lighting to be shielded…

In unincorporated Ascension Parish, exterior lighting for an off-street parking area, sign or other structure must be…

Unified Development Code Section 12.6.4 caps light spilling onto a neighbor at 0.2 footcandles at a residential…

In unincorporated Bossier Parish, the Police Jury's zoning protection standards bar any use from emitting objectionable…

Outdoor lighting in Caddo Parish cannot exceed one footcandle measured at any lot line, and no glare may spill onto…

In City-Parish overlay and development standards, lighting must be shielded so no more than five foot-candles cross a…

Jefferson Parish bars covered commercial, industrial, multi-family, and civic sites from aiming outdoor light at…

In the City of Kenner, the Unified Development Code's exterior lighting article exists specifically to curb light…

Lafayette adopted Code of Ordinances § 89-37 to 'protect and maintain the residential character of established…

Lafayette's commercial lighting rule requires new multifamily, commercial, and industrial developments to shield…

Lake Charles allows communication and utility towers as a minor conditional use in the Business District only if Sec…

The CZO caps spillover light at your property line: no more than 0.5 foot-candle at a residential property line and 1.0…

Shreveport draws a hard numeric line on spillover: the maximum allowable footcandle at any lot line is one footcandle…

St. Tammany Parish's outdoor lighting standard exists specifically to minimize light trespass, and UDC Section 600-2.1…

Tangipahoa Parish requires 'small box discount store' developments to shield their lighting from neighboring homes…

Terrebonne Parish Code Sec. 28-71(c) requires that lighting used for signs, parking areas or other purposes within the…

In the City of Kenner, beacons, search lights, and any sign with flashing, blinking, or fluttering lights that change…

Off-premises billboards in Bossier City cannot use rotating beacons or flashing lights within 1,000 feet of residential…

Off-premise signs and billboards in unincorporated Bossier Parish may be illuminated only under Section 126-888(i)'s…

Jefferson Parish caps electronic variable message billboards and other EVM signs at 323 candelas per square meter…

Lafayette City-Parish requires digital billboard displays to automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes…

Billboard lighting in Shreveport is tightly numeric. UDC Section 9.8.E requires every electronic billboard to run a…

Off-premises billboards in unincorporated Tangipahoa Parish may be illuminated only with shielded external lighting…

Terrebonne Parish requires any floodlight, thin-line or gooseneck reflector used to light a billboard to aim at the…