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Looking Towards a Brighter Future INTRODUCTION


Many in the community association industry are already familiar with some of the laws affecting owners’ rights to install solar energy systems in their separate interests, or in an association’s common area. Anyone who has had to review such an application is likely aware of the complex interplay between the Legislature’s public policy favoring these systems, an individual association’s board’s aesthetic considerations, and the practical realities of cost, available sunlight, and limited space.


To this mix, we can now add a state mandated obligation, effective January 1, 2020, that requires that such systems be installed in most new single-family homes and low-rise multifamily residential construction in California.


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Tree specific sections of the California Civil Code deal with the installation of solar energy systems by owners in community associations: § 714 (regarding the unenforceability of blanket restrictions against such systems); § 714.1 (regarding reasonable restrictions that associations may nevertheless impose on such systems); and § 4746 (regarding installations of such systems on a multifamily building’s common area roof).


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