[Adopted 4-18-1989 by Ord. No. 6-89]
A. 
A person may not display a light between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and sunrise, if such light is displayed by a person in a motor vehicle, or such light uses a motor vehicle as an energy source, except:
(1) 
Lights displayed within any incorporated city or village;
(2) 
Lights displayed on a person's own property, whether owned or rented, or with the permission of the owner or tenant;
(3) 
The headlights of a vehicle that is actually traveling on a public road or private driveway; parked vehicles shall turn headlights off, but parking lights and warning flares must be used at any time to mark a parked or disabled vehicle;
(4) 
A light displayed on a public highway for the sole purpose of reading roadside signs or information upon mailboxes;
(5) 
A light or illumination device used by any law enforcement officer in the performance of his duties; or
(6) 
Street and traffic lights erected by governmental units.
B. 
A person may not display a light within 200 feet of any dwelling inhabited by or meant to be inhabited by human beings between sunset and sunrise, except under the conditions set forth in Subsection A of this section.
A person who violates any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter 290 of the County Code plus costs.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Secs. 3 through 7, which immediately followed this section and provided for the issuance of citations, were repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). See now Ch. 290, Art. III, Citations.