HB 67 — An Act amending Title 68 (Real and Personal Property) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in management of the condominium, providing for outdoor solar access for drying clothes; in management of cooperatives, providing for outdoor solar access for drying clothes; and, in management of planned community, providing for outdoor solar access for drying clothes.

PRINTER'S NO.    55

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 67
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY BOROWSKI, GIRAL, HANBIDGE, SANCHEZ, KHAN, BURGOS,
        HILL-EVANS, HOWARD, CIRESI, FREEMAN, OTTEN, HOHENSTEIN AND
        ZIMMERMAN, JANUARY 14, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
        JANUARY 14, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 68 (Real and Personal Property) of the
 2      Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in management of the
 3      condominium, providing for outdoor solar access for drying
 4      clothes; in management of cooperatives, providing for outdoor
 5      solar access for drying clothes; and, in management of
 6      planned community, providing for outdoor solar access for
 7      drying clothes.
 8      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 9   hereby enacts as follows:
10      Section 1.    Title 68 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
11   Statutes is amended by adding sections to read:
12   § 3323.   Outdoor solar access for drying clothes.
13      (a)    Prohibition.--Except as provided in the declaration, an
14   association shall be prohibited from imposing any unreasonable
15   restriction that prohibits a person who occupies a unit from
16   outdoor solar access for drying clothes within the boundaries of
17   a unit or the limited common elements assigned to the unit.
18      (b)    Limitations.--The drying of clothes outdoors shall be
19   limited to association-approved areas of a unit or the limited
 1   common elements assigned to the unit and shall be out of view
 2   from the front entrances or public areas of the association.
 3      (c)    Rules and regulations.--An association may adopt
 4   reasonable rules and regulations detailing the time, place and
 5   manner of the drying of clothes outdoors and prohibit the drying
 6   of clothes outdoors if the drying of clothes poses a safety or
 7   fire hazard, impedes proper evacuation in the case of an
 8   emergency or obstructs the view from, or access to, other units.
 9      (d)    Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
10   construed to supersede the legal authority of an association to
11   adopt and enforce any bylaw, rule or regulation on any matter
12   other than the provision of outdoor solar access for drying
13   clothes as specified under this section.
14   § 4324.   Outdoor solar access for drying clothes.
15      (a)    Prohibition.--Except as provided in the declaration, an
16   association shall be prohibited from imposing any unreasonable
17   restriction that prohibits a proprietary lessee with a
18   possessory interest in a unit from outdoor solar access for
19   drying clothes within the boundaries of a unit or the limited
20   common elements assigned to the unit.
21      (b)    Limitations.--The drying of clothes outdoors shall be
22   limited to association-approved areas of a unit or the limited
23   common elements assigned to the unit and shall be out of view
24   from the front entrances or public areas of the association.
25      (c)    Rules and regulations.--An association may adopt
26   reasonable rules and regulations detailing the time, place and
27   manner of the drying of clothes outdoors and prohibit the drying
28   of clothes outdoors if the drying of clothes poses a safety or
29   fire hazard, impedes proper evacuation in the case of an
30   emergency or obstructs the view from, or access to, other units.

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 1      (d)    Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
 2   construed to supersede the legal authority of an association to
 3   adopt and enforce any bylaw, rule or regulation on any matter
 4   other than the provision of outdoor solar access for drying
 5   clothes as specified under this section.
 6   § 5323.   Outdoor solar access for drying clothes.
 7      (a)    Prohibition.--Except as provided in the declaration, an
 8   association shall be prohibited from imposing any unreasonable
 9   restriction that prohibits a person who occupies a unit from
10   outdoor solar access for drying clothes within the boundaries of
11   a unit or the limited common elements assigned to the unit.
12      (b)    Limitations.--The drying of clothes outdoors shall be
13   limited to association-approved areas of a unit or the limited
14   common elements assigned to the unit and shall be out of view
15   from the front entrances or public areas of the association.
16      (c)    Rules and regulations.--An association may adopt
17   reasonable rules and regulations detailing the time, place and
18   manner of the drying of clothes outdoors and prohibit the drying
19   of clothes outdoors if the drying of clothes poses a safety or
20   fire hazard, impedes proper evacuation in the case of an
21   emergency or obstructs the view from, or access to, other units.
22      (d)    Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
23   construed to supersede the legal authority of an association to
24   adopt and enforce any bylaw, rule or regulation on any matter
25   other than the provision of outdoor solar access for drying
26   clothes as specified under this section.
27      Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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