HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	91
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO ENERGY.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 196-8.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no person shall be prevented by any covenant, declaration, bylaws, restriction, deed, lease, term, provision, condition, codicil, contract, or similar binding agreement, however worded, from installing a clothesline on any single-family residential dwelling [or], townhouse, cooperative housing corporation or condominium dwelling unit that the person owns.  Any provision in any lease, instrument, or contract contrary to the intent of this section shall be void and unenforceable.

     (b)  Every private entity may adopt rules that reasonably restrict the placement and use of clotheslines for the purpose of drying clothes on the premises of any single-family residential dwelling [or], townhouse[;], cooperative housing corporation or condominium dwelling unit; provided that those restrictions do not prohibit the use of clotheslines altogether.  No private entity shall assess or charge any homeowner any fees for the placement of any clothesline."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Condominium; Clotheslines

 

Description:

Allows owners of a cooperative or condominium dwelling unit to install and use clotheslines.

 

 

 

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