{"id":7254,"date":"2025-01-21T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:45:48","slug":"meeb-newsletter-janurary-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/2025\/01\/21\/meeb-newsletter-janurary-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"MEEB Newsletter Janurary 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><u>NEW MASSACHUSETTS LAW CREATES A STATEWIDE RIGHT TO CHARGE ELECTRIC VEHICLES<\/u><\/span><\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"entry-title entry-title--large p-name\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-content-field=\"title\">CONDO BOARDS CAN\u2019T BAN CHARGING STATIONS<\/h5>\n<p class=\"\">When Boston and Cambridge enacted \u201cright-to-charge\u201d ordinances in 2019 and 2022, respectively, codifying the rights of electric vehicle owners to install charging stations in multi-family buildings, industry executives predicted that Massachusetts lawmakers would eventually follow suit. They were right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A sweeping climate bill enacted at the end of last year includes a statewide \u201cright to charge\u201d provision, prohibiting condominium associations and homeowners\u2019 associations from banning or unreasonably restricting the installation of charging stations in areas used exclusively by owners. The state law closely tracks the language in the local ordinances, with a few tweaks clarifying the authority of HOAs and condo associations to review installations and to regulate them. We\u2019ve compiled the following list of FAQs to help condominium boards understand and comply with the new law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meeb.com\/marcus-errico-emmer-brooks-newsletter\/electric-charging-united\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW MASSACHUSETTS LAW CREATES A STATEWIDE RIGHT TO CHARGE ELECTRIC VEHICLES CONDO BOARDS CAN\u2019T BAN CHARGING STATIONS When Boston and Cambridge enacted \u201cright-to-charge\u201d ordinances in 2019 and 2022, respectively, codifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"arc_restricted_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,56,29,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-trustees","category-cambridge","category-owners-area","category-board_blog","category-residents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbMqog-1T0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hallmarkcondominium.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}