2 rules for unincorporated Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
Verified from official government sources
Massachusetts law bars any town zoning bylaw from prohibiting or unreasonably regulating solar energy systems, except to protect health, safety, or welfare. Plymouth County homeowners need only a building and electrical permit and a utility interconnection agreement.
MGL c.40A §3
No zoning ordinance or by-law shall prohibit or unreasonably regulate the installation of solar energy systems or the building of structures that facilitate the collection of solar energy, except where necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare.
Massachusetts has no state law overriding homeowners' association solar restrictions. In Plymouth County's condominium and HOA communities, recorded covenants can lawfully limit or prohibit rooftop solar, and the zoning protection for solar does not reach private deed restrictions.
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