Murphy-Form 5
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 FORM 5
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                                             UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                                         Washington, D.C.  20549

[ ] Check this box if no longer              ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
    subject to Section 16. Form 4 or
    Form 5 obligations may continue.          Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities
    See Instruction 1(b).                         Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the
                                                Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
[ ] Form 3 Holdings Reported                 Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

[ ] Form 4 Transactions Reported

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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)     |
|   MURPHY       KENYON          W.       |    ACUITY BRANDS, INC. (AYI)                 |                                         |
|                                         |                                              |    [ ] Director       [ ] 10% Owner     |
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|   (Last)      (First)       (Middle)    | 3. I.R.S. Identi-       | 4. Statement for   |    [X] Officer (give  [ ] Other(specify |
|                                         |    fication Number      |    Month/Year      |        title below)       below)        |
|    C/O ACUITY BRANDS, INC.              |    of  Reporting        |                    |                                         |
|    1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE            |    Person, if an entity |    08/31/02        | Sr. Vice President and General Counsel  |
|    SUITE 2400                           |    (Voluntary)          |                    |              (FN 1)                     |
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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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|  (City)        (State)         (Zip)                                                                                             |
|                                          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)    |   Benefici-   |   Direct    |    Indirect|
|                     |    (Month/ |    Date,   |   (Instr.8)|                          |   ally Owned  |   (D) or    |    Bene-   |
|                     |    Day/    |    if any  |            |--------------------------|   at end of   |   Indirect  |    ficial  |
|                     |    Year)   |    (Month/ |            |  Amount | (A) or | Price |   Issuer's    |   (I)       |    Owner-  |
|                     |            |    Day/    |            |         | (D)    |       |   Fiscal Year |   (Instr.4) |    ship    |
|                     |            |    Year)   |            |         |        |       |   (Instr.3    |             |   (Instr.4)|
|                     |            |            |            |         |        |       |   4)          |             |            |
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| COMMON STOCK        |            |            |            |         |        |       |   2,712 (FN 2)|    D        |            |
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| COMMON STOCK        |            |            |            |         |        |       |     949       |    I        | 401(k)     |
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| COMMON STOCK        |            |            |            |         |        |       |      15       |    I        | By Sons    |
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 FORM 5 (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 Derivative        | 2.Conver-   |3.Trans- |3A.Deemed  | 4.Trans- | 5. Number of Deriva-   | 6.  Date Exercisable     |
|   Security (Instr. 3)        |   sion or   |  action |   Execu-  |   action |    tive Securities     |     and Expiration       |
|                              |   Exercise  |  Date   |   tion    |   Code   |    Acquired (A) or     |     Date                 |
|                              |   Price of  |  (Month/|   Date,   |   (Instr.|    Disposed of (D)     |     (Month/Day/Year)     |
|                              |   Deriva-   |  Day/   |   if any  |   8)     |    (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) |                          |
|                              |   tive      |  Year)  |   (Month/ |          |                        |                          |
|                              |   Security  |         |   Day/    |---------------------------------------------------------------
|                              |             |         |   Year)   |          |     (A)     |    (D)   |  Date        | Expira-   |
|                              |             |         |           |          |             |          |  Exercisable | tion Date |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $20.72     | 9/16/92 |  9/16/92  |   A      |   2,341(FN3)|          |  Immed.      | 9/16/02   |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $22.42     | 9/21/94 |  9/21/94  |   A      |   4,682(FN4)|          |  Immed.      | 9/20/04   |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $26.27     | 9/20/95 |  9/20/95  |   A      |   2,341(FN5)|          |  Immed.      | 9/19/05   |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $32.46     | 9/17/96 |  9/17/96  |   A      |   3,511(FN6)|          |  Immed.      | 9/16/06   |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $37.85     | 9/23/97 |  9/23/97  |   A      |   5,852(FN7)|          |  Immed.      | 9/22/07   |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $29.95     | 9/22/98 |  9/22/98  |   A      |   5,852(FN8)|          |  (FN8)       | 9/21/08   |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $23.65     | 1/5/00  |  1/5/00   |   A      |   5,267(FN9)|          |  (FN9)       | 1/4/10    |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $16.50     | 10/24/00|  10/24/00 |   A      |  41,789(FN10)|         |  (FN10)      | 10/23/10  |
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| EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTION        |  $13.80     | 12/3/01 |  12/3/01  |   A      | 108,169(FN11)|         |  (FN11)      | 12/2/11   |
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| STOCK UNITS (FN12)           |  1 FOR 1    | 12/31/01|  12/31/01 |   A      |      30(FN13)|         |  (FN13)      | (FN13)    |
|                              |             |TO 8/1/02|TO 8/1/02  |          |              |         |              |           |
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|7. Title and Amount           |  8. Price of      |   9. Number of     |  10.  Ownership      |  11.  Nature of    |
|   of Underlying              |     Derivative    |      Derivative    |       of             |       Indirect     |
|   Securities                 |     Security      |      Securities    |       Derivative     |       Beneficial   |
|   (Instr. 3 and 4)           |     (Instr. 5)    |      Beneficially  |       Security:      |       Ownership    |
|                              |                   |      Owned at End  |       Direct (D)     |       (Instr. 4)   |
--------------------------------                   |      of Year       |       or Indirect (I)|                    |
|  Title        |  Amount or   |                   |      (Instr. 4)    |       (Instr. 4)     |                    |
|               |  Number of   |                   |                    |                      |                    |
|               |  Shares      |                   |                    |                      |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    2,341     |     N/A           |      2,341         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    4,682     |     N/A           |      4,682         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    2,341     |     N/A           |      2,341         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    3,511     |     N/A           |      3,511         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    5,852     |     N/A           |      5,852         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    5,852     |     N/A           |      5,852         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |    5,267     |     N/A           |      5,267         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |   41,789     |     N/A           |     41,789         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |  108,169     |     N/A           |    108,169         |       D              |                    |
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| COMMON SHARES |       30     |     N/A           |     1,005(FN14)    |       D              |                    |
|               |              |                   |                    |                      |                    |
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Explanation of Responses:

FN 1. Mr. Murphy served as a director of the Issuer until the spin-off of the Issuer from National Service Industries ("NSI").
FN 2. Includes 451 shares held in a Section 423 stock purchase plan and 900 performance-based, time-vesting restricted shares.
FN 3. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 2,000 common shares which was subsequently replaced with an
      employee stock option for 2,341 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee Benefits
      Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI. Options relating to 2,341
      shares are currently vested.
FN 4. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 4,000 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 4,682 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 4,682 shares are currently vested.
FN 5. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 2,000 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 2,341 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 2,341 shares are currently vested.
FN 6. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 3,000 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 3,511 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 3,511 shares are currently vested.
FN 7. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 5,000 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 5,852 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 5,852 shares are currently vested.
FN 8. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 5,000 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 5,852 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 4,169 shares are currently vested and options for an additional 1,683 shares will become exercisable
      on 9/22/2002.
FN 9. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 4,500 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 5,267 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 2,633 shares are currently vested and options for an additional 1,317 shares will become exercisable
      on 1/5/2003 and 1,317 shares will become exercisable on 1/5/2004.
FN10. Represents an employee stock option granted by NSI for 35,700 common shares which was subsequently replaced with
      an employee stock option for 41,789 common shares of the Issuer pursuant to a formula set forth in the Employee
      Benefits Agreement between NSI and Issuer in connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI.  Options relating
      to 10,447 shares are currently vested and options for an additional 10,447 shares will become exercisable
      on 10/24/2002, 10,447 shares will become exercisable on 10/24/2003 and 10,448 shares will become exercisable on
      10/24/2004.
FN11. This Option vests in three annual installments with 36,057 shares becoming exercisable on 12/3/2002, 36,056 shares
      becoming exercisable on 12/3/2003 and 36,056 shares becoming exercisable on 12/3/2004.
FN12. Stock Units held in Acuity Brands Supplemental Deferred Savings Plan that will be paid in cash according to the
      Plan's provisions.
FN13. During the period reported, dividends paid resulted in an increase of 30 stock units at valuation prices ranging
      from $13.03 to $18.48.
FN14. Represents an aggregate balance of Issuer stock units resulting from (a) 834 NSI stock units accrued pursuant
      to the NSI Supplemental Deferred Savings Plan which were subsequently replaced with 976 Issuer stock units in
      connection with the spin-off of the Issuer from NSI, and (b) the transactions described in this Form 5.

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                                                                        /s/ Kenyon W. Murphy                     10/14/02
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                                                                        ** Signature of Reporting Person            Date



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