Outdoor Lighting in New York (2026)

Albany's Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance caps light trespass at 0.1 footcandle at the lot line, bans any…

Amherst requires every nonresidential and multifamily site light to use a cutoff fixture that hides the light source…

Town of Babylon zoning requires full cutoff luminaires for exterior lights of 1,800 lumens or more, and fully shielded…

Brookhaven requires 'full cutoff' fixtures for streetlights and area lighting to protect the night sky. Code §§ 85-866C…

Cheektowaga's site lighting law, Town Code § 260-48, forces every nonresidential and multifamily lighting plan reviewed…

In Clarkstown's Hamlet Center Districts of Congers, Valley Cottage and West Nyack, exterior fixtures for signs…

In the Pine Bush-influenced portions of Colonie's Conservation Development Overlay, exterior security and parking lot…

Glen Cove requires all exterior lighting in its I-1, I-2 and I-3 Industrial Districts to be shielded from view of…

Outdoor lighting in Greece can't spill past the property line. Zoning Code § 211-35 bars spotlighting or other…

Greenburgh's Sign and Illumination Law requires every outdoor light to be shielded so its direct rays never spill onto…

Every exterior light fixture installed in Huntington must be fully shielded and aimed straight down, with mounted…

Islip's Exterior Lighting Standards article, adopted to protect the ability to view the night sky, requires full cutoff…

Mount Vernon caps outdoor light fixtures at 10 feet above street level for projects in the MX-1 Commercial Corridor…

New Rochelle requires all nonresidential exterior lighting to use full cutoff fixtures aimed straight down, and bans…

Oyster Bay's zoning code caps exterior lighting on multifamily and nonresidential properties at 24 feet and 400 watts…

Every light fixture in Rochester has to be a concealed-source fixture, security lighting must be shielded and can't top…

Every outdoor light fixture in Smithtown must be arranged so its source is hooded and not visible from the street or a…

Utica has no dedicated dark-sky or residential outdoor-lighting ordinance. Lighting is addressed only through zoning…

Suffolk County requires new and replacement outdoor light fixtures on county-owned buildings, parking lots and docks to…

North Hempstead's recommended design standards for the Port Washington Business Overlay District ask outdoor lighting…

Albany's Unified Sustainable Development Ordinance limits light trespass onto neighboring lots to 0.1 footcandle at the…

Amherst's site lighting rules cap how much light can spill onto neighboring land: no more than 0.2 footcandle at a…

Town of Babylon zoning defines light pollution broadly as glare, skyglow, light trespass, and wasted energy, and…

Brookhaven caps how much light a property can throw onto its neighbors: Code § 85-867A(2) limits illuminance at a…

Town Code § 260-48C(7) sets a hard number on light trespass: outdoor lighting on a nonresidential or multifamily site…

Clarkstown's zoning performance standards bar nonresidential uses from casting glare that is visible beyond a fixed…

Glen Cove's zoning code bans glare that crosses a property line. Under City Code § 280-45.F, no glare from lighting…

Greece's zoning code bans exterior spotlighting or other high-intensity lighting that spills onto an adjoining property…

Greenburgh's Sign and Illumination Law requires every outdoor light source to be shielded or aimed so its direct rays…

Huntington's outdoor lighting code bars any luminaire from throwing glare or direct illumination across a property line…

Islip's exterior-lighting article sets a hard numeric ceiling on light trespass: no more than 0.05 footcandle, measured…

New Rochelle's nonresidential lighting standard, Zoning Code § 331-22B(5), caps light spilling onto a neighboring…

North Hempstead requires every exterior and parking-lot light fixture in its Industrial B District to be shielded so…

Exterior lighting on a drive-through window facility in the City of Oneida must be indirect and shielded so it causes…

Oyster Bay's housing code requires every exterior light fixture to be shielded so it stays on the owner's own lot…

Ramapo's Zoning Code requires outdoor lighting at approved day camps and outdoor recreation facilities, including lit…

No use in Rochester may produce a strong, dazzling light or glare visible from any point along a property line, under…

In Schenectady's M-1 Light Manufacturing and Warehousing District, glare from any business operation cannot throw more…

Suffolk County requires all new or replacement outdoor light fixtures on County-owned buildings, parking lots and docks…

Utica has no specific light-trespass ordinance for residences. Spillover light is addressed only through the Zoning…

In Mount Vernon's MX-1 Commercial Corridor District, City Code Section 267-19.A(8)(d)(3) tells applicants that…

Brookhaven's sign law does not set a billboard-lighting standard because it bans the billboards themselves. Town Code §…

Colonie's billboard law requires every light source on a billboard to be shielded and aimed at the sign face, never…

Huntington bans billboards outright, but for the on-premises signs it does allow, § 198-95(C) controls how they can be…

Islip's Conservation of Energy ordinance bars lighting up any sign, billboard or outdoor display after the close of…

New York City's Zoning Resolution limits how advertising signs, meaning billboards, can be lit in the commercial…

North Hempstead confines billboards to industrial districts and layers on strict lighting limits under Town Code §…