A.R.S. § 33-1809: HOA Emergency Vehicle Parking
Parking; public service and public safety emergency vehicles; definition
Can an Arizona HOA stop a resident from parking an emergency-response vehicle at home?
In Arizona, a homeowners' association cannot stop a resident from parking a motor vehicle on a community street or driveway if the vehicle must be available at designated periods at the resident's home as a condition of employment and either the resident works for a public service corporation or municipal utility preparing for emergency utility-infrastructure repairs and drives a vehicle of twenty thousand pounds or less that is owned or operated by that corporation or utility and bears its official emblem, or the resident works for a public safety agency, including police, fire, or ambulance service, and drives a vehicle of ten thousand pounds or less bearing that agency's official emblem.
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Official text last checked against azleg.gov:
33-1809. Parking; public service and public safety emergency vehicles; definition
A. Notwithstanding any provision in the community documents, an association shall not prohibit a resident from parking a motor vehicle on a street or driveway in the planned community if the vehicle is required to be available at designated periods at the person's residence as a condition of the person's employment and either of the following applies:
1. The resident is employed by a public service corporation that is regulated by the corporation commission, an entity regulated by the federal energy regulatory commission or a municipal utility and the public service corporation or municipal utility is required to prepare for emergency deployments of personnel and equipment for repair or maintenance of natural gas, electrical, telecommunications or water infrastructure, the vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of twenty thousand pounds or less and is owned or operated by the public service corporation or municipal utility and the vehicle bears an official emblem or other visible designation of the public service corporation or municipal utility.
2. The resident is employed by a public safety agency, including police or fire service for a federal, state, local or tribal agency or a private fire service provider or an ambulance service provider that is regulated pursuant to title 36, chapter 21.1, and the vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or less and bears an official emblem or other visible designation of that agency.
B. For the purposes of this section, "telecommunications" means the transmission of information of the user's choosing between or among points specified by the user without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received. Telecommunications does not include commercial mobile radio services.
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