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Glare: Light emitting from a luminaire with an intensity <br /> great enough to reduce a viewer's ability to see <br /> or to cause annoyance, and, in extreme cases, <br /> causing momentary blindness. <br /> Holiday Decoration: Holiday displays, decorations and greetings, <br /> which relate to any federally designated holiday, <br /> legal holiday or religious holiday. <br /> Lamp: The source of electric light: the bulb. To be <br /> distinguished from fixture and luminaire. <br /> Lumen: A unit of luminous flux. One foot-candle is one <br /> lumen per square foot. For the purposes of this <br /> ordinance, the lumen-output values shall be the <br /> INITIAL lumen output ratings of a lamp. <br /> Luminaires A complete lighting system that includes a lamp <br /> or lamps and a fixture. <br /> Semi-Cutoff Fixture: An outdoor fixture shielded or constructed in <br /> such a manner that it emits no more than five (5) <br /> percent of its light above the horizontal plane of <br /> the fixture, and no more than twenty (20) percent <br /> of its light ten (10) degrees below the horizontal <br /> plane of the fixture. <br /> Upward: Projection of light above the horizontal plane. <br />6.31.3 Applicability: <br /> A. All outdoor lighting installed on public or private property <br /> shall comply with the outdoor lighting standards as <br /> contained in Section 6.31, unless exempted in Section <br /> 6.31.4. <br /> B. In the event of a conflict between the outdoor lighting <br /> standards as contained in Section 6.31 and any other <br /> section of this ordinance, the more strin ent re uirement <br />