Nevada voids HOA solar bans. Under NRS 111.239, any covenant or CC&R in a Sparks community that prohibits or unreasonably restricts a solar energy system is void and unenforceable.
Homeowners in Sparks planned communities keep the right to go solar. NRS 111.239 makes any covenant, restriction, or condition in a deed or governing document that prohibits or unreasonably restricts a solar energy system void and unenforceable. A restriction that decreases the system's efficiency by ten percent below its original specification, without allowing a comparable alternative, is deemed unreasonable, and the Director of the Governor's Office of Energy decides disputes within thirty days. An association may still set reasonable placement or appearance conditions, but it cannot use architectural review to defeat a working system. Battery storage and ground-mounted arrays may get separate reasonable guidelines.
An HOA that denies, delays, or fines a compliant solar installation, or imposes conditions that cut its efficiency beyond the statute's limit, is enforcing a void restriction under NRS 111.239 and risks a state determination against it.
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