2025 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 15 - ENERGY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 12 - Solar Shade Control
Section 25982.

Universal Citation:
CA Pub Res Code § 25982 (2025)
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25982. After the installation of a solar collector, a person owning or in control of another property shall not allow a tree or shrub to be placed or, if placed, to grow on that property so as to cast a shadow greater than 10 percent of the collector absorption area upon that solar collector surface at any one time between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., local standard time.

(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 176, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009.)

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