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HEADQUARTERS
SUFFOLK COUNTY WAR COUNCIL
Office of Civilian Protection
June 2 1942
TO: Deputy County Directors
Chiefs of 2nd Division
SUBJECT: Dim-out in Suffolk
Pursuant to authority contained in Executive Order #9066 and
Public Proclamation #1 of the Commanding General of the Eastern
Defense Command, and
Pursuant to Chapter 544 of the Laws of 1942, Section 19,
Paragraph 8, the following rules and regulations are hereby es-
tablished for the control of artifical lighting throughout the
County of Suffolk and are to take effect immediately, from sundown
each night to sunrise the following morning, for the duration of
the war or until such time as these orders may be rescinded or
amended.
These regulations supersede all previous regulations concerning
control of artificial lighting issued by this office.
These regulations do not apply to official, maritime, or
aerial navigation lights.
A. STREET AND EXTERIOR LIGHTING
1. All exterior lights used for illumination or guidance of
traffic (such as street lights) and all lights used for
security measures or necessary outdoor protection, outdoor
manufacture, storage or shipping of war materials (such
as floodlights or artificial illumination in freight yards,
docks or shipyards), shall be reduced in volume, number or
wattage to a minimum consistent with their purpose and
shaded so as to prevent their direct rays shining at an
angle above the horizontal. All street and boardwalk
lighting directly visible from seaward shall be either
screened or eliminated.
2. All other exterior lights used for illumination of open
areas, such as parking lots, playgrounds, places of amuse-
ment or entertainment, sidewalk cafes, marquees, open-air
gardens or terraces, etc., must be so shaded as to prevent
their lights shining at an angle above the horizontal and
the combined lighting of such areas may not exceed the
average of one-quarter watt per square foot, and no
individual light used for such purposes shall be in
excess of one hundred watts at the rated v~ltage.
B. ADVERTISING LIGHTING (Interior)
1. All lights within display windows, shop windows, open
lobbies and other places of business shall be so shaded
by opaque material as to prevent their direct rays being
visible from any point on the exterior of the window or
opening and the total lighting of such display windows
shall not exceed the average of one-half watt per square
foot of vertical window or opening. Where the lights of
the interior of such shops, stores or other places of
business arc normally visible from the exterior thereof,
they shall be so shaded by opaque material as to prevent
the direct rays being visible from any point outside of
the building. Lights reflected outward by mirrors or other
polished surfaces are subject to these provisions. Where
the display window or opening is not protected from the
main portion of the store, shop or place of business by a
protective backdrop or partition, the wattage for lighting
of the interior of such store, shop or place of business
shall not exceed the average of one-quarter watt per square
foot of floor space.
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2. All other windows, openings ahd skylights that open either
on the street or courtyard or roof, shall be so screened
or shaded as to prevent direct rays of light escaping
therefrom. In lieu of complete screening or shading of
such windows, the interior lights of the rooms concerned
shall be individually shaded to prevent the shining or
reflection of lights out of such windows.
C. ADVERTISING LIGHTING (Exterior)
1. All exterior advertising signs illuminated by floodlights,
incandescent bulbs, neon, fluorescent, or other lighting,
shall be extinguished.
D. HOUSE LIGHTING
1. Windows and other outlets of all commercial establishments,
hotels or dwellings, adjacent to the coast, shall be so
shaded or darkened that direct lights therefrom are not
visible from seaward.
2. All dwellings throughout the county, or commercial estab-
lishments, shall draw shades down to a point where direct
rays from interior lights such as bridge lamps or table
lamps shall not be visible above the horizontal.
E. AUTOMOBILE LIGHTS
1. Automobiles, parked or moving, where their headlights
would normally be visible from seaward, shall extinguish
their bright lights. If in motion, they shall proceed
with due cautiOn using only parking lights. Automobiles
moving on interior roads shall move with dim lights.
F. OUTSIDE FIRES
1. The intentional burning of bonfires, brush fires or burning
of fields, etc., specifically come under the same
regulations concerning other lighting. Where brush,
rubbish, fields etc. are burning it shall be so arranged
that these fires will be extinguished completely by
sundown.
G. OUTDOOR AMUSEMENTS
1.
Carnivals, night baseball games, bazaars, etc. are pro-
hibited from sunset to sunrise throughout the county.
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FLOYD D. HOUSTON
Director of Civilian Protection