Florida was the first state to pass a right-to-dry law. The statute makes invalid any ordinance, covenant or deed restriction “which prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting the installation of solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources ...”The 2015 Florida Statutes |
163.04 Energy
devices based on renewable resources.—
(1) Notwithstanding
any provision of this chapter or other provision of general or
special law, the adoption of an ordinance by a governing body, as
those terms are defined in this chapter, which prohibits or has the
effect of prohibiting the installation of solar collectors,
clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources is
expressly prohibited.
'Bye
'bye Condo bylaws
Wow, this is something, Elaine. Is this really true then that our residents can erect clotheslines? I think our condo bylaws already permit this on a condo owner's porch, but can a clothesline now be put up outside the porch—that is, on the common ground? I don't think an individual would be allowed to do this on his own hook. He would have to get approval from the association board, wouldn't he, or perhaps even by vote of a majority of the owners at a meeting?
ReplyDeleteA woman in our association loves clotheslines. She would like to be able to hang her wet laundry on a clothesline, but we were never able to permit it. I visited this woman and her husband at their home on Long Island a few years ago when returning from a couple of months in MA. I knew the street the couple lived on but didn't know their street number, so I drove up and down the street. Then I saw it: one apartment's garage was open and inside were clothes drying on a clothesline rack. "That's got to be their house," I said to myself, and it was.
Hi Lanny, put a line from your bldg to the lovely almond tree, add undies, whatevers, see what happens!
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