This bill addresses HOA rules on address and house-number lights — the illuminated-address requirements a board can impose and the limits on them.
In short: Addresses HOA rules on address/house-number lights.
Passed Senate only Pro-homeowner
Precludes a condominium association and a planned community association (homeowner's association) from prohibiting the installation or use of a lighted home address device.?
For homeowners: Pro-homeowner: it bars associations from prohibiting a lighted/emergency-flashing home address device and confines them to placement rules that cannot defeat its purpose, subject to municipal lighting ordinances. The mandatory attorney-fee award to a party who prevails against the board adds enforcement teeth. Passed the Senate only.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Precludes a homeowner's association from prohibiting the installation or use of a lighted home address device that: a) provides a lighted display of the house number; b) flashes when activated to signal the location of an emergency; c) is visible from the street; and d) has a low-light adjustment. (Sec. 1, 2)?
- Stipulates a homeowner's association may adopt reasonable rules for the placement of a lighted home address device provided such rules do not prevent the installation, defeat the purpose or impair the functioning, restrict the use or adversely affect the cost or efficiency of the device. (Sec. 1, 2)
- Allows the homeowner's association to apply reasonable lighting restrictions. (Sec. 1, 2)
- Requires the lighting device to comply with all municipal lighting ordinances. (Sec. 1, 2)
- Instructs the court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to any party who substantially prevails in an action against the homeowner's association board of directors for a violation relating to lighted home address device installation or use. (Sec. 1, 2)
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.
The recorded third-reading roll call. On the contested HOA bills this splits along party lines; see a member’s page for detail.
Senate — 23 Yea / 5 Nay