This bill addresses HOA rules on address and house-number lights — the illuminated-address requirements and restrictions an association can impose, which is a safety and cost issue for owners.
In short: Addresses HOA rules on address/house-number lights.
Passed Senate only Pro-homeowner
Prohibits a condominium unit owners' association (COA) or planned community association (HOA) from prohibiting a lighted home address device as outlined.
For homeowners: Pro-homeowner: it prohibits associations from banning a lighted/emergency-flashing home address device and limits them to placement rules that cannot defeat the device's purpose. The mandatory attorney-fee award to a party who prevails against the board adds real enforcement leverage. Passed the Senate only.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Prohibits a COA or HOA from prohibiting the installation of a lighted home address device that: a) provides a lighted display of the house numbers; b) flashes when activated to signal the location of an emergency; c) is visible from the street; or d) has a low-light adjustment.
- Requires the lighting device to comply with all municipal lighting ordinances.
- Allows a COA or HOA to adopt reasonable rules regarding the placement of a lighted home address device if the rules do not prevent the installation, defeat the purpose, impair the functioning, restrict the use or adversely affect the cost or efficiency of the device.
- Allows a COA or HOA to apply reasonable lighting restrictions.
- Requires the court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to any party who substantially prevails in an action against the board of directors of a COA or HOA for a violation against lighted home address device use.
- Becomes effective on the general effective date.
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.