LD1628 • 2025

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Regulate Exterior Lights

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Sponsor: Representative Tracy Quint
Last action: 2025-05-29
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Allow Municipalities to Regulate Exterior Lights

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Regulate Exterior Lights Sponsor: Representative Tracy Quint Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Regulate Exterior Lights Sponsor: Representative Tracy Quint Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-05-29 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-05-28 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-05-19 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-05-19 Committee
Voted; ONTP
2025-04-11 House
Received by the Clerk of the House on April 11, 2025. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
2025-04-11 Committee
Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Allow Municipalities to Regulate Exterior Lights
Sponsor:
Representative Tracy Quint
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1628
H.P. 1082 House of Representatives, April 15, 2025
An Act to Allow Municipalities to Regulate Exterior Lights
Received by the Clerk of the House on April 11, 2025. Referred to the Committee on State
and Local Government pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule
401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative QUINT of Hodgdon.
Cosponsored by Representatives: ADAMS of Lebanon, COLLAMORE of Pittsfield,
DOUDERA of Camden, GEIGER of Rockland, MATLACK of St. George, WHITE of
Guilford, WHITE of Ellsworth, Senator: GROHOSKI of Hancock.

Page 1 - 132LR2193(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §3015 is enacted to read:
3§3015. Regulation of exterior lights
4 A municipality may adopt an ordinance to regulate an exterior light to prevent the
5 brilliance or positioning of the exterior light from causing undue annoyance or otherwise
6 adversely affecting the health or safety of a member of the public or the enjoyment or use
7 of another property, including requiring the exterior light to be positioned to shine
8 downward or otherwise be directed away from the public or another property or be
9 equipped with a shield to narrow the beam of light projected by the exterior light.
10SUMMARY
11 This bill allows municipalities to adopt ordinances to regulate exterior lights to prevent
12 the brilliance or positioning of the exterior lights from causing undue annoyance or
13 otherwise adversely affecting the health or safety of a member of the public or enjoyment
14 or use of another property, including requiring the exterior light to be positioned to shine
15 downward or be equipped with a shield to narrow the beam of light projected by the exterior
16 light.
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