HOAs often ban patio covers, pergolas, and sun shades on aesthetic grounds, even in Arizona's heat. This bill protects a homeowner's right to install shade structures, limiting an association's power to deny them.
In short: Protects a homeowner's right to install shade structures/sun shades despite HOA rules.
Signed into law (Ch. 90) Pro-homeowner
Prevents a planned community association from restricting the backyard installation or use of a shade structure.
For homeowners: Pro-homeowner and now law (Ch. 90): it bars a planned community from prohibiting backyard shade structures (umbrellas, awnings, shade sails, gazebos, pergolas, canopies). The association retains only reasonable size/placement/appearance rules that cannot block installation, impair function, unreasonably raise cost, or impose height/setback limits stricter than local zoning, giving owners an enforceable backyard right.
Session law: Chapter 90 (Laws 2026)
Signed: Jun 4, 2026
Effective: Sep 12, 2026
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Asserts a planned community association cannot prohibit the backyard installation or use of a shade structure. (Sec. 1)
- Allows a planned community association to adopt reasonable rules regarding the size, placement or appearance of a shade structure if they do not: a. prevent the installation, impair the functioning or restrict the use of the structure; b. unreasonably affect the cost of the structure; and c. create height and setback requirements for a single-family home that are more restrictive than the zoning ordinances with
- Defines shade structure to mean a commercially produced or professionally manufactured moveable or permanent structure that is designed to protect an area from sunlight, including an umbrella, awning, shade sail, gazebo, pergola or canopy. (Sec. 1)
The A.R.S. sections this bill amends, adds, or repeals — taken from the bill text. Click one to read the current law.
Official bill page (azleg.gov) → Full bill text → Fact sheet / summary → Bill history (LegiScan) →
Organizations and industry insiders who registered a position on this bill through the Legislature’s public Request to Speak system — simply where each stood: For, Against, or Neutral. Individual homeowners are not listed. Whether this bill helps or hurts homeowners is our own read, shown by its label above — a group’s position doesn’t set our call. Each row links to that entity’s report card and to the source at azleg.gov.