Editing Clothes line (section)

==North American controversy==
Controversy surrounding the use of clothes lines has prompted many governments to pass "right-to-dry" laws allowing their use.<ref name="nytimes">{{Citation | last=Rosenthal | first=Elisabeth | title=A Line in the Yard: The Battle Over the Right to Dry Outside | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 17, 2008 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/world/americas/17clothesline.html }}</ref> According to Ian Urbina, a reporter for ''[[The New York Times]]'', "the majority of the 60 million people who now live in the [United States'] roughly 300,000 private communities" are forbidden from using outdoor clothes lines.<ref name=iunyt>{{Cite web | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=October 10, 2009 | first=Ian | last=Urbina | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/11clothesline.html | title=Debate Follows Bills to Remove Bans on Clotheslines }}</ref>

{{As of|2013|08}}, the states of Florida, Colorado,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realestatejournal.com/homegarden/20070919-chaker.html |title=Real Estate News, Mortgage Rates, Buy, Sell or Rent a Home - Wall Street Journal - Wsj.com |publisher=Realestatejournal.com |date=October 3, 2002 |access-date=February 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>Chaker, Anne Marie (September 18, 2007) [https://www.wsj.com/public/article/SB119007893529930697.html "The Right to Dry"], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.</ref><ref>Colorado Governor's Energy Office [http://www.colorado.gov/energy/policy/hoa-bill-hb-08-1270.asp HOA Bill – HB 1270] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201133427/https://www.colorado.gov/energyoffice |date=2018-12-01 }}</ref> Hawaii,<ref>{{cite web| title=Haw. Rev. Stat. § 196-8.5 | author=Hawaii State Legislature | url=http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol03_Ch0121-0200D/HRS0196/HRS_0196-0008_0005.htm | access-date=July 8, 2015}}</ref> Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin had passed laws forbidding bans on clothes lines, while Utah allows local jurisdictions to forbid such bans.<ref>{{cite news |first=Martha |last=Neil |url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/20_right_to_dry_states_outlaw_clothesline_bans_is_yours_among_them |title=19 'right to dry' states outlaw clothesline bans; is yours among them? |newspaper=ABA Journal |date=August 14, 2013 |access-date=August 23, 2016 }}</ref> At least eight states restrict homeowners' associations from forbidding the installation of solar-energy systems, and lawyers have debated whether or not those laws might apply to clothes lines. British filmmaker, Steven Lake, released a documentary in 2011 titled ''Drying for Freedom'' about the clothes-line controversy in the United States.<ref name=iunyt/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1861318/ | title=Drying for Freedom (2011) - IMDb | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>

In Canada, the province of Nova Scotia's first NDP government passed ''An Act to Prevent Prohibitions on the Use of Clotheslines'' on December 10, 2010 to allow all homeowners in the province to use clotheslines, regardless of restrictive covenants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nslegislature.ca/legc/bills/61st_2nd/3rd_read/b113.htm |title=Nova Scotia legislature |publisher=Nslegislature.ca |access-date=February 10, 2013}}</ref> The province of Ontario lifted bans on clothes lines in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gianphoithongminhhoaphat.com.vn/tin-tuc/thu-tuong-ontario-do-bo-lenh-cam-phoi-quan-ao-ngoai-troi-n4456.html |title=Ontario premier lifts outdoor-clothesline ban |publisher=Ctv.ca |date=April 18, 2008 |access-date=February 10, 2013}}</ref> Some affluent Canadian suburban municipalities such as [[Hampstead, Québec]] or [[Outremont, Québec]] prohibit clotheslines.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}