[gadaboutgal]

TV cannot restrict the use of outdoor clotheslines or solar collectors--I am very much in agreement with the "green" thinking of our state legislators. The following information is kind of long to read but I think every citizen of Florida should be aware that the Florida Senate passed a statute in 2009 prohibiting HOAs and their Covenants from restricting the right to hang clothes outside, or to install solar panels:

"A deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources from being installed on buildings erected on the lots or parcels covered by the deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or binding agreement. A property owner may not be denied permission to install solar collectors or other energy devices by any entity granted the power or right in any deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement to approve, forbid, control, or direct alteration of property with respect to residential dwellings and within the boundaries of a condominium unit. Such entity may determine the specific location where solar collectors may be installed on the roof within an orientation to the south or within 45° east or west of due south if such determination does not impair the effective operation of the solar collectors."
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/ind...3ESection%2004