HOA Restrictions

Arizona law bars homeowners associations from banning solar energy devices outright. A.R.S. § 33-1816 lets an association adopt only reasonable placement rules, and only if those rules…

California Civil Code section 714 makes any HOA covenant, deed restriction, or governing document provision that effectively prohibits or restricts a solar energy system void and…

This is a statewide protection against private restrictions, not a local mandate: Colorado voids any deed, contract, or HOA covenant blocking a renewable energy device wherever one…

Connecticut protects rooftop solar in common interest communities through Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-261b(g), but the protection is deliberately narrow. It applies only where the community…

Delaware Code Title 25 Section 318 voids deed restrictions and HOA covenants that prohibit or unreasonably restrict roof-mounted solar systems and limits ground-mount restrictions…

Under DC Official Code section 8-1774.51, a homeowners, condominium, or cooperative housing association cannot prohibit an owner from installing a solar energy collection device on…

Florida law voids any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA agreement that bans or effectively blocks solar collectors on homes or condo units, and boards cannot deny installation…

HRS Section 196-7 prohibits any homeowners association, condominium, or planned community from preventing the installation of a solar energy device on a homeowner's roof or property…

Idaho Code Section 55-3208 prohibits homeowners associations from adopting or enforcing covenants that limit or prohibit rooftop solar panel installation, preempting contrary CC&Rs…

Illinois voids any association bylaw, board action, deed restriction or covenant that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting a solar energy system, under 765 ILCS 165/15 and 765…

Indiana does not void covenants that ban rooftop solar. Instead IC 32-25.5-3.5 hands the homeowner a workaround the board cannot veto: gather signatures equal to either the number…

Iowa has no statute that voids a homeowners association covenant banning solar panels. The only covenant provision in Iowa's solar chapter, Iowa Code section 564A.8, does nothing more…

Kentucky has no solar access law that overrides a homeowners association covenant. The Commonwealth's only statute on the subject, KRS 381.200(2), authorizes a voluntary solar easement…

Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1255 says no person or entity shall unreasonably restrict the right of a property owner to install or use a solar collector, and it defines a solar…

Maine's Solar Rights Act, 33 M.R.S. chapter 28-A, bars a homeowners association, condominium association, deed restriction or even a municipal ordinance from prohibiting an owner from…

Maryland Real Property § 2-119 bars any deed covenant, declaration, contract, security instrument, or condominium or homeowners association bylaw from imposing unreasonable limitations…

M.G.L. c. 184, § 23C makes void any provision in an instrument relative to the ownership or use of real property that purports to forbid or unreasonably restrict the installation or…

Since April 2, 2025, Michigan's Homeowners' Energy Policy Act (2024 PA 68, MCL 559.301 to 559.317) makes any provision of a homeowners' association agreement that prohibits or has the…

Minn. Stat. 500.216 bars homeowners associations and other private entities from prohibiting a roof-mounted solar energy system on a qualifying single-family home. Effective July 1…

Since January 1, 2023, Mo. Rev. Stat. § 442.404.3 has made any deed restriction, covenant or similar agreement running with the land unenforceable to the extent it limits or prohibits…

Montana has never passed a statute voiding covenants that ban or restrict solar panels. There is no "reasonable restriction" test, no architectural approval deadline, and no cost or…

Nebraska has no solar rights statute that overrides a homeowners association or condominium covenant. Its solar access law, Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 66-901 to 66-914, works on local zoning…

Nevada rebuilt its HOA solar law in 2025. Under NRS 116.333 an association that has adopted solar rules must approve or deny a request to install a residential solar system within 35…

New Hampshire has never enacted a solar-access law that overrides private covenants. Nothing in RSA 356-B, the Condominium Act, mentions solar, and RSA 356-B:30, I runs the other way…

N.J.S.A. 45:22A-48.2 forbids a New Jersey community association from adopting or enforcing any restriction, covenant, bylaw, rule or regulation that prohibits solar collectors on two…

Under NMSA 47-3-4, any covenant or restriction effective after July 1, 1978 that effectively prohibits installing or using a solar collector is void and unenforceable statewide, and…

New York's Solar Rights Act, Real Property Law Article 9-C, section 342, voids any homeowners' association rule that effectively bans rooftop solar. A restriction counts as an illegal…

North Carolina voids any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA agreement that bans, or effectively bans, solar collectors on residential property, under G.S. 22B-20. The protection covers…

Ohio's planned-community law lets an HOA member install a solar energy collection device unless the declaration specifically bans it, but the right only kicks in if the owner covers…

Oklahoma has never enacted a solar access, solar rights or solar easement statute, and nothing in state law voids a covenant that bans or conditions rooftop panels. Under 60 O.S…

Oregon ORS 105.880 to 105.890 declares unenforceable any deed restriction, covenant, or HOA rule that prohibits or unreasonably restricts the installation of solar energy systems on…

Rhode Island has never enacted a statute voiding covenants that ban or restrict rooftop solar, and the Rhode Island Condominium Law says nothing about solar collectors anywhere in its…

Tennessee has no solar-access law overriding HOA covenants, so a homeowners association may restrict or prohibit rooftop solar panels. The Solar Access Law of 1979 (T.C.A. § 66-9-201…

Section 202.010 of the Texas Property Code voids any homeowners association rule that bans or restricts installing a solar energy device, a term that under Tax Code Section 171.107…

Utah Code § 57-8a-701(2)(a) says no governing document other than a declaration may prohibit a detached dwelling owner from installing a solar energy system, which is the crucial…

Under 27 V.S.A. § 544 a Vermont property owner may not be denied permission to install solar collectors by any entity that a deed restriction or covenant empowers to approve, forbid…

Virginia's solar covenant statute is a default rule, not a covenant-voiding right. Va. Code § 55.1-1820.1 B says no association shall prohibit an owner from installing a solar energy…

Washington RCW 64.38.055 voids homeowner association rules prohibiting solar panel installation, allowing only reasonable placement rules. RCW 64.90.510 gives the same protection to…

West Virginia Code §36-4-19 makes any HOA covenant that prohibits or restricts a homeowner's solar energy system void and unenforceable, so a housing association cannot block rooftop…

Wisconsin does not merely limit what a homeowners' association may say about solar. Wis. Stat. § 236.292(2) declares that all restrictions on platted land that prevent or unduly…

Wyoming's Solar Rights Act (W.S. 34-22-101 through 34-22-106) makes solar access a property right against neighbors and local governments, but it does not void homeowners-association…