Florida condo EV charging station rights

First, the scope: Florida Statutes 718.113(8) is part of the Condominium Act, Chapter 718. It protects condo unit owners, not homeowners in an HOA under Chapter 720. If you are buying a single-family home in an HOA, this section does not apply to you.

For a condo, the rule is that the declaration or the board may not prohibit a unit owner from installing an electric vehicle charging station within the boundaries of the owner's limited common element parking area. The owner has to have the electricity separately metered and pay for it, cannot cause irreparable damage to the condominium property, and carries the cost of installation, operation, maintenance, and repair, along with hazard and liability insurance. The association may require compliance with bona fide safety codes and apply reasonable standards for the dimensions, placement, and appearance of the station, but those standards cannot prohibit the install or substantially increase its cost.

If charging at home is part of the plan, 718.113(8) protects the install in your assigned space, but it puts the cost and the insurance on you. The condo documents tell you the metering and approval steps, and the minutes show whether the board has handled charging requests smoothly or made them a fight. For a single-family HOA, the protection is different, so confirm which kind of community you are buying into.

Read these together before you make an offer:

• Whether the community is a condominium under Chapter 718, which is where this right applies.
• The condo rules for EV charging, separate metering, and the approval process.
• Any architectural standard that would substantially raise the install cost, which the statute does not allow.
• Recent board minutes for how charging requests were handled.

A condo board that drags out or overcharges for a charging install is a governance signal, and a declaration that bans charging outright conflicts with 718.113(8).

An HOA Notes brief reads the declaration, the rules, and the minutes together, flags provisions that conflict with the Condominium Act, and cites the page behind every finding.

Florida Statutes section 718.113(8) (Condo EV charging station rights). CONDOMINIUM ONLY (Chapter 718): A condominium association may not prohibit a unit owner from installing an electric vehicle charging station in their unit, a limited common element appurtenant to their unit, or their exclusively assigned parking area; electricity must be separately metered or metered by an embedded meter at the owner's expense. The association may require compliance with bona fide safety requirements consistent with building codes, impose reasonable architectural standards governing dimensions, placement, and external appearance that do not effectively prohibit installation, and require the owner to carry hazard and liability insurance.

When you read the disclosure packet, watch for no EV charging stations may be installed in any parking space, all electrical modifications to parking areas require board approval and may be denied, and no installations in limited common elements without unanimous board approval. HOA Notes flags each of these against the statute and tells you which restrictions are actually enforceable.