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FORM 4
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
[ ] Check this box if no longer STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities
Form 5 obligations may continue. Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the
See Instruction 1(b). Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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|1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* | 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol | 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) |
| | | to Issuer (Check all applicable) |
| WILLIAMS NEIL | ACUITY BRANDS, INC. (AYI) | |
| | | [X] Director [ ] 10% Owner |
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| (Last) (First) (Middle) | 3. I.R.S. Identi- | 4. Statement for | [ ] Officer (give [ ] Other(specify |
| | fication Number | Month/Day/Year | title below) below) |
| C/O ACUITY BRANDS, INC. | of Reporting | | |
| 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE | Person, if an entity | 02/03/2003 | |
| SUITE 2400 | (voluntary) | | |
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| (Street) | | 5. If Amendment, | 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing |
| | | Date of Original| (Check Applicable Line) |
| ATLANTA GEORGIA 30309 | | (Month/Year) | [X]Form filed by One Reporting Person|
| | | | [ ]Form filed by More than One |
| | | | Reporting Person |
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| Table I-- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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|1. Title of Security |2. Trans- |2A. Deemed | 3. Trans- |4. Securities Acquired(A)|5. Amount of |6. Ownership |7. Nature |
| (Instr. 3) | action | Execu- | action | or Disposed of (D) | Securities | Form: | of |
| | Date | tion | Code | (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | Benefic- | Direct | Indirect|
| | (MM/ | Date,if| (Instr.8)| | ially Owned | (D) or | Bene- |
| | DD/ | any |---------------------------------------- at End of | Indirect | ficial |
| | YY) | (MM/ | Code | V | Amount | (A) | Price | Month (Instr.| (I) | Owner- |
| | | DD/ | | | | or | | 3 and 4) | | ship |
| | | YY) | | | | (D) | | | | (Instr.4)|
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| COMMON STOCK | | | | | | | 1,000 | D | |
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Form 4 (Continued) Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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|1. Title of |2. Conver- |3. Trans- |3A.Deemed |4.Transaction |5. Number of Deriv- | 6. Date Exerc- |
| Derivative | sion or | action | Execu- | Code | ative Securities | isable and |
| Security | Exercise | Date | tion | (Instr. 8) | Acquired (A) or | Expiration |
| (Instr.3) | Price of | (MM/ | Date, | | Disposed of (D) | Date |
| | Deriv- | DD/ | if any | | (Instr. 3, 4 | (MM/DD/YY) |
| | ative | YY) | (MM/ | | and 5) | |
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| | | | YY) | Code | V | (A) | (D) | Date | Expira- |
| | | | | | | | | Exercisable | tion Date |
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| DIRECTOR STOCK OPTIONS| | | | | | | | | |
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| STOCK UNITS (FN 2) | 1 for 1 | 02/03/03 | 02/03/03 | A | | 106 (FN 2)| | (FN 2) | (FN 2) |
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|7. Title and | 8. Price of | 9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of |
| Amount of | Derivative | Derivative | Form of | Indirect |
| Underlying | Security | Securities | Derivative | Beneficial |
| Securities | (Instr. 5) | Beneficially | Security: | Ownership |
| (Instr. 3 and 4) | | Owned at End | Direct (D) | (Instr. 4) |
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| Title | Amount or | | (Instr. 4) | (Instr. 4) | |
| | Number of | | | | |
| | Shares | | | | |
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|Common Stock | | | 15,010 (FN 1)| D | |
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|Common Stock | 106 | $13.32 | 9,507 (FN 2)| D | |
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Explanation of Responses:
FN 1. Represents the total number of Director Stock Options held at various exercise prices and grant dates
as of the Reporting Date.
FN 2. Stock Units are accrued under the Issuer's Nonemployee Directors' Deferred Stock Unit Plan and
are payable in cash upon retirement. Accruals include an annual grant, required and elective deferral
of director fees and reinvestment of dividend equivalents. During the Reporting Period, dividends paid
resulted in an increase of 106 units.
/s/ Jill A. Gilmer, as Power
of Attorney for Neil Williams 02/05/2003
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** Signature of Reporting Person Date
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially directly or indirectly.
*If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Kenyon W. Murphy, Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
Helen D. Haines, Vice President and Secretary, and Jill A. Gilmer, Assistant
Secretary, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
to:
1. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of Acuity Brands, Inc. (the "Company"),
Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4,
or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely
file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
3. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it
being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on
behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in
such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 20th day of August, 2002.
/s/ Neil Williams
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Signature
Neil Williams
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