Pathway 5.

Electricity Decarbonization → Distributed Renewable Energy

5.2.17 Barring Homeowners Associations from Restricting Solar Energy

LPDD Recommendation: “States or the federal government should bar homeowners associations from imposing covenants, conditions or restrictions against solar technologies.”

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Florida’s Solar Rights Law

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Prohibits any covenant, condition or restriction that prohibits the use of solar energy.

Virgin Islands’ Solar and Wind Energy Systems Act

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Voids all covenants, conditions and restrictions that prohibit the use of solar and wind energy.

Hawaii’s Energy Resources Code 196-7

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Prohibits all covenants, conditions or restrictions from preventing a homeowner from installing solar energy.

New Mexico’s Solar Rights Act

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Serves to prohibit cities from passing ordinances or codes and homeowners' associations from passing covenants that forbid solar installations.

California Civil Code Section 714(a)

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Effectively bans prohibitions on the use of solar energy in homeowners agreements.