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House committee recommends bill limiting HOA bans on residential solar panels
Summary
A Utah House committee gave a favorable recommendation to House Bill 119, a measure that would make it harder for homeowners associations to enact complete bans on solar panels for detached houses and caps HOA restrictions that would increase system cost or reduce production by more than 5%.
Representative Tim Owens introduced House Bill 119, saying the bill would change how homeowners associations (HOAs) may restrict residential solar panels on detached houses.
The bill would require a two-thirds vote of association members to enact a restriction that completely bans solar panels, while allowing lesser changes to HOA rules by a simple majority. It also prohibits HOA restrictions that would increase a system’s cost or decrease its production by more than 5% and applies to new or future restrictions; existing HOA prohibitions are not required to be changed, Owens said. "This is a hopefully small bill that concerns HOA's restrictions, ability to restrict the placement of solar panels on…
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