Home Owners Associations and Satellite TV System Rules

HOA's - Home Owners Associations

HOA's (homeowners associations) do not have a legal right to keep you from having a satellite tv dish system for your home. However, there are a few exceptions to this. There are a few limitations regarding how and where the satellite tv equipment installed.

On August 6, 1996, the FCC released a regulation called "The Satellite Consumer Bill of Rights". It says that as long as the dish that is provided by the satellite company is between 18 and 20 inches and also complies with the remainder of the Satellite Consumer Bill of Rights, then the consumer has every right to have a satellite tv system installed on their premises. The Satellite Consumer Bill of Rights over-rules local zoning ordinances or homeowner association covenants as well as any other restrictions that may be put on the installation of satellite tv dish antennas. This ruling was a part of the Telecommunications Act that was enacted in 1996 by Congress.

The FCC has gone as far as to mandate that: "No landlord, no city or state or any other type of organization or agency of the government will be allowed to keep anyone with deeded space or a balcony (for apartment renters) that has a clear view of the southern sky, the right to install a satellite dish under 1 meter (1.5 meters in Alaska)".

Also, organizations may not force an owner or tenant to move their dish (or antenna) if they don't happen to like the way that it makes the property look. There can be no exceptions to this rule as long as the space for the satellite dish has been deeded.

The exception is that these rules do not apply to certain common areas that happen to be owned by a community association, landlord, or by certain joint cooperative owners. These areas may include an exterior wall or roof of a multiple dwelling unit. In these cases, restrictions that are made on dish antennas installed in or on such 'common areas' can be enforced.

NOTE: This page is not meant to represent legal information. The views offered on this page are merely the views of the author and cannot be held as a representation of a legal claim in a court of law. The statements made on this page are to be used for entertainment purposes only.

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