Outdoor Lighting in New Jersey (2026)

Long Branch bans a specific list of outdoor light types citywide: unshielded sources, upward-pointed fixtures, mercury…

Clifton Code § 461-60D requires all lighting for off-street parking areas to be arranged and shielded so it reflects…

Edison Township's outdoor lighting ordinance states its purpose is to stop misdirected or excessive light, glare, light…

Elizabeth's design standards chapter requires every outdoor light source, not just billboards, to be shielded so no…

Freehold Township bars artificial lighting that shines directly onto a neighbor's land or into windows, porches or…

Galloway has outdoor lighting standards in § 233-17.2 of its Land Management ordinance, including a limit that a light…

Hackensack's zoning performance standards ban direct or sky-reflected glare from industrial, business, office…

Hamilton Code § 550-115.B requires nonglare, color-corrected lighting focused downward for parking areas, walkways and…

Lakewood Township's lighting article bans 'sky glow' outright and pushes every commercial and parking-lot lighting plan…

Every exterior light fixture on a non-residential, non-school Newark site must carry a shield that confines the light…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 190-85 requires all site lighting fixtures to be shielded and directed downward so no…

A Township zoning performance standard caps outdoor artificial lighting on any use or structure at 0.5 footcandle…

Trenton limits outdoor lighting to one footcandle at any lot line and requires every luminaire to use full cutoff or…

Bergenfield's redevelopment plans for the Area 'D' and West Church Street zones direct developers to choose new…

City Code § 31-11.12(c) asks outdoor lighting in Linden's Planned Commercial Development (PCD) district to meet 'dark…

Bergenfield's site plan approval standard at Borough Code § 186-108L bars building, property and sign lighting from…

Brick Township's site plan approval standard requires that outdoor lighting's location, power, direction and hours of…

Clifton City Code Ch. 305 requires every artificial light on private land to be shaded and aimed away from adjoining…

Edison Township requires shielded light fixtures for all outdoor security lighting and for lighting that illuminates…

Elizabeth's design standards ordinance caps how much light can spill onto a neighboring lot: maximum illumination at…

Freehold Township requires every multifamily residential zone to light its parking areas and access drives from sunset…

Hackensack's zoning code requires lighted parking areas in residential districts to be arranged so they throw no glare…

Hamilton Code § 550-120.L bars any use from producing 'a strong, dazzling light or a reflection of a strong, dazzling…

Residential exterior lighting in Lakewood Township cannot push more than half a footcandle onto a neighbor's property…

Linden requires landscape buffers around federal, state and county government facility sites to block headlight glare…

Long Branch caps light trespass onto neighboring property at 0.5 footcandle in a vertical plane at the property line…

Newark's zoning code puts a hard number on light trespass: no more than 0.5 footcandle at the property line next to a…

Passaic's Property Maintenance Code directly bars light trespass in multi-unit housing: § 219-95.D requires that…

Paterson's Land Development Ordinance requires outdoor lighting to be shielded and aimed so it doesn't spill onto…

The Village of Ridgewood, Bergen County, caps outdoor light spilling onto neighboring residential land at one…

Every use in Toms River Township must keep artificial light under 0.5 footcandle past its property line, and any…

Trenton caps outdoor lighting at one footcandle measured at any lot line and requires every outdoor luminaire to be…

Chapter 650's General Provisions require every exterior light in Irvington, in every zoning district, to be shielded…

Freehold Township bars billboard-type signs outright, so there is no separate billboard lighting standard to comply…

Elizabeth permits billboards only as a conditional use near state or federal highways or rail lines, under Schedule…

Bergenfield bans flashing, rotating, or intermittent sign illumination and requires every illuminated sign to be…

Off-premise signs and billboards in Edison Township, New Jersey, cannot exceed 0.2 foot-candle over ambient light…

Billboard lighting along Hamilton's I-195/I-295 corridors must shut off between midnight and sunset and is limited to…

Lakewood Township caps digital billboard brightness at 0.2 foot-candles above ambient light measured within 150 feet of…

Newark caps how billboards and other signs may be lit: internal illumination must stay static in color and intensity…

Trenton caps sign and billboard illumination at one foot-candle measured at the lot line under § 315-12.4, and limits…