Bill Text: MI HB4082 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Housing; other; installation of certain energy-saving home improvements; allow. Creates new act.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - Printed Bill Filed 01/14/2011 [HB4082 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB4082-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4082
January 13, 2011, Introduced by Rep. Slavens and referred to the Committee on Local, Intergovernmental, and Regional Affairs.
A bill to provide for the promotion of ecologically sound
improvements to residences; and to provide for the assertion of
rights in these improvements with regard to homeowners' association
agreements.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"energy-saving residential improvement act".
Sec. 2. A residential homeowner may make an energy-saving
improvement to his or her home. For all homeowners' association
agreements entered into on and after the effective date of this
act, a provision of the homeowners' association agreement that
requires that the association approve or allow an energy-saving
improvement by a residential homeowner who is a party to the
agreement is unenforceable.
Sec. 3. On and after the effective date of this act, a county,
city, village, or township shall not require the approval of a
homeowners' association before a resident is allowed to implement
an energy-saving improvement.
Sec. 4. As used in this act, "energy-saving improvement"
includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Use of clotheslines on the owner's property.
(b) Installation of solar panels.
(c) Use of windmills.
Sec. 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to forbid a
county, city, village, or township from implementing independent
requirements that may forbid or limit a residential homeowner from
installation of energy-saving improvements.
