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Solar Rights and Easements

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​CAI supports environmental and energy efficiency policies that recognize and respect the governance and contractual obligations of community association residents as the best mechanism to enact sustainable environmental policies.

CAI supports efforts by state legislatures to empower community associations to build consensus-based solutions regarding environmental initiatives, and opposes government and interest group efforts to override community policy or deed restrictions on single interest issues.​

Click on one of the states below to learn more about that state's laws on solar rights and easements.

States (shaded blue) that offer the ability to prohibit covenants or restrictions placed upon homeowners preventing the installation of solar powered panels and associated devices:

States (shaded green) with laws that protect easements and their establishment on a legal contractual basis without having an express solar rights law :