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Originally Posted by ktucker
To Terry (trfour): I'm afraid you probably shouldn't make posts in the middle of the night - it's hard to make sense of what you typed in. 
All I was trying to do in my first post was to suggest a way that the people involved could have worked together instead of suing each other. |
Some homeowner associations have rules against flying any type of banner or sign. These rules are designed to prevent banners for sports teams and all sorts of similar signs which some people would consider an eye sore. Since any homeowner association rule must be uniformly enforced, these well-intentioned rules could be “construed to limit or prohibit, the display of the flag of the United States.” In order to clear the matter up and distinguish the American flag from a banner for a sports team, our legislature passed this new law.
Since a homeowners association may not apply rules in an arbitrary and capricious manner, a homeowners association could have felt that if they allowed people to fly the American flag, they would have had to allow people to display banners for sports teams and other banner and signs. While an association could have, (and should have), allowed American flags without allowing banners for sports teams before this new law, California Civil Code Section 1353.5 clears up any confusion. We have to remember that the people who run our homeowners associations are volunteers who often have very limited legal knowledge and unfortunately lawyers who are usually paid by the hour have a financial incentive to make legal matters seem more complicated and encourage litigation.
This thread is about all of us trying to preserve our cavil and civic right to display the United States Flag anywhere here in the United States Of America... Here it is 2011, and not to speak for anyone els, Oh and yes I have been known to go off in a rant here from time to time! However,
My very heart is well documented here, and around this Great Country!
And in respect to Ktucker I should have added some space instead of a coma in my comment to his post... " Although to consider you're point... Here are my thought's as well...
Terry
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