2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 17, Chapters 756 - 838
ORS Chapter 757
757.765 Public utility provision of shielded outdoor lighting fixtures to customers.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) Outdoor lighting fixture means an automatically controlled searchlight, spotlight, floodlight or other device used for architectural lighting, lighting streets or parking lots, landscape lighting, billboards or other artificial illumination or advertising purposes.

(b) Public utility has the meaning given that term in ORS 757.005.

(c) Shielded means that a light fixture is designed to ensure that direct or indirect light rays emitted from the fixture are projected below a horizontal plane running through the lowest light-emitting point of the fixture.

(2) A public utility supplying electricity that provides a customer with outdoor lighting fixtures shall make the option of using shielded outdoor lighting fixtures available to the customer. The utility shall notify a customer to whom the utility provides outdoor lighting fixtures that a shielded outdoor lighting fixture option is available through the utility. The utility shall file an application with the Public Utility Commission to establish rates and charges for providing the shielded outdoor lighting fixture option.

(3) Subsection (2) of this section does not require a utility to reimburse a customer for the cost of a shielded outdoor lighting fixture installed before the date the utility sends a notice to the customer under this section, or to provide an option for a customer to acquire:

(a) Incandescent outdoor lighting fixtures of not more than 150 watts;

(b) Light sources of not more than 70 watts that are not incandescent lighting fixtures;

(c) Outdoor lighting fixtures on advertising signs on interstate or federal primary highways;

(d) Navigational lighting systems at airports or other lighting necessary for aircraft safety; or

(e) Outdoor lighting fixtures necessary for worker safety at farms, ranches, dairies or feedlots or at industrial, mining, oil or gas facilities. [2009 c.588 1]