Home Owners Associations may, according to the Florida bylaws, pass hurricane shutter deployment rules and regulations on absentee home owners. These rules should be predicated on common sense objections to 'boarded up' homes that appear ugly and abandoned. While there are also Florida Building Code laws for egress requirements, many shutters meet these codes. Today’s new technologies and hurricane shutter designs are much more advanced than those of say 10 years ago. We now have an assortment of affordable and reliable designs many automated for absentee homeowner’s solutions. Most if not all of today’s hurricane shutters allow for relative ease of deployment just before the storm. Panels are the one exception – but many of these have developed rapid egress designs as well. Today’s hurricane shutters afford a variety of solutions to this common deployment problem. An example is the automated wind sensor or dialer where the roll shutters are automatically deployed whenever a wind storm is detected or announced. There is no Florida law against absentee shutter deployment, but associations can and do enforce their own rules and guidelines governing such restrictions.
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