(a) The following classifications are established for outdoor and special areas according to their lighting characteristics:\n(1) Class 1: Dark Tracts.— Areas used as parks, conservation areas, Nature Reserves, State Forests, and rural, suburban, or urban areas with little or no outdoor lighting;\n(2) Class 2: Low ambient lighting.— Suburban and rural low density residential areas.\n(3) Class 3: Moderate ambient lighting.— Urban residential areas.\n(4) Class 4: High ambient lighting.— High density urban residential or commercial zones with night time activity.\n(5) Special class: Vieques Zone.— All of the territorial area of the Island-Municipality of Vieques, in order to protect the Mosquito Bioluminescent Bay.\n(6) Special class: La Parguera Zone.— A special zone consisting of an area with a five (5) mile radius, which encompasses the La Parguera Bioluminescent Bay, in order to protect it.\n(7) Special Class for the Cabezas de San Juan Zone.— A special zone which spans an area of five (5) miles around Laguna Grande.\n(8) Special class: Beach areas used by sea turtles All coastal areas used by sea turtles as nesting and egg laying sites during their annual migration journey to five (5) miles around Laguna Grande.\n(8) Special class: Beach areas used by sea turtles All coastal areas used by sea turtles as nesting and egg laying sites during their annual migration journey to our shores.\nHistory —Aug. 9, 2008, No. 218, § 8, eff. Jan. 1, 2010; Jan. 18, 2012, No. 29, § 5; June 26, 2013, No. 35, § 2.
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