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GENERATORS -- HURRICANE PROTECTION?
By
Jan Bergemann
Published January 26, 2024
Our
lengthy
PROPOSAL to allow owners of property in mandatory HOAs
to install fixed generators and fuel tanks was shortened when
our proposal ended up in Representative Tyler Sirios’
(R-Brevard) bill
HB 293 -- Hurricane Protections for Homeowners' Associations.
The bill
just added exterior fixed generators and fuel tanks to the list
of items considered “HURICANE PROTECTION”.
If the
bill gets enacted (Effective date 7/1/2024), it reads as
follows:
FS 720.3035(6)(c)
For purposes of this subsection, the term "hurricane protection"
includes, but is not limited to, metal roofs, permanent fixed
storm shutters, roll-down track storm shutters, impact-resistant
windows and doors, polycarbonate panels, reinforced garage
doors, erosion controls, exterior fixed generators, fuel storage
tanks, and other hurricane protection products used to preserve
and protect the structures or improvements on a parcel governed
by the association.
The bill
passed already two committees (Regulatory Reform & Economic
Development Subcommittee and Civil Justice Subcommittee) and
has only one more stop at the Commerce Committee before getting
to the vote of the full House.
It looks
like we are getting what we have been asking for.
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
!
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