{
  "section": "4745",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4745",
  "heading": "Electric Vehicle Charging Stations",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2026-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 525, Sec. 1. (SB 770) Effective January 1, 2026.",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 525, Sec. 1. (SB 770) Effective January 1, 2026.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=4745.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging",
  "pending_amendment": {
    "bill": "SB 1267",
    "author": "Senator Allen",
    "act": "An act to amend Section 4745 of the Civil Code",
    "chapter": "350",
    "statutes_of": "2026",
    "citation": "Stats. 2026, Ch. 350 (SB 1267)",
    "chaptered": "2026-09-20",
    "effective": "2027-01-01",
    "act_effective": "2027-01-01",
    "urgency": false,
    "verb": "amended",
    "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1267",
    "checked": "2026-10-11",
    "renumbered": {},
    "renumbered_count": 0,
    "changes": [
      {
        "id": "f-2-A",
        "label": "(f)(2)(A)",
        "was_id": "f-2-A",
        "change": "amended",
        "was": "Costs for damage to the charging station, common area, exclusive use common area, or separate interests resulting from the installation, maintenance, repair, removal, or replacement of the charging station.",
        "now": "Costs for damage to the charging station, common area, exclusive use common area, or separate interests resulting from the installation, use, maintenance, repair, removal, or replacement of the charging station."
      },
      {
        "id": "f-5",
        "label": "(f)(5)",
        "was_id": null,
        "change": "added",
        "was": null,
        "now": "The installer of the electric vehicle charging stations shall indemnify or reimburse the association or the members for loss or damage caused by the installation of the electric vehicle charging station."
      },
      {
        "id": "l",
        "label": "(l)",
        "was_id": null,
        "change": "added",
        "was": null,
        "now": "Except in the case of gross negligence by the association, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide an association that has complied with this section with civil liability protection for injuries and damages emanating from an electric vehicle charging station or its use that the association does not own."
      }
    ],
    "note": "Enacted law that has not yet taken effect. The text in `subdivisions` is the text in force; these are the changes already signed, with the date each starts. Not present in the Legislative Counsel's code tables until then."
  },
  "version_history": [],
  "verified": "two sources agree",
  "verification_note": "Text taken verbatim from the Legislative Counsel of California official code database and checked word for word against an independent publisher.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11",
      "name": "leginfo (Legislative Counsel official bulk code database, LAW_SECTION_TBL)",
      "note": "Authoritative. Retrieved with tools/fetch.py, which reads the archive's central directory by HTTP range request and fetches only this section's member. The leginfo.legislature.ca.gov HTML page sits behind a bot challenge; this is the same database that backs it."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://california.public.law/codes/civil_code_section_4745",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word.",
      "edition": "2025"
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "Any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of any interest in a common interest development, and any provision of a governing document, as defined in Section 4150, that either effectively prohibits or unreasonably restricts the installation or use of an electric vehicle charging station within an owner’s unit or in a designated parking space, including, but not limited to, a deeded parking space, a parking space in an owner’s exclusive use common area, or a parking space that is specifically designated for use by a particular owner, or is in conflict with this section is void and unenforceable.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-1",
      "label": "(b)(1)",
      "text": "This section does not apply to provisions that impose reasonable restrictions on electric vehicle charging stations. However, it is the policy of the state to promote, encourage, and remove obstacles to the use of electric vehicle charging stations.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-b-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-2",
      "label": "(b)(2)",
      "text": "For purposes of this section, “reasonable restrictions” are restrictions that do not significantly increase the cost of the station or significantly decrease its efficiency or specified performance.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-b-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "An electric vehicle charging station shall meet applicable health and safety standards and requirements imposed by state and local authorities, and all other applicable zoning, land use, or other ordinances, or land use permits.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-c"
    },
    {
      "id": "d",
      "label": "(d)",
      "text": "For purposes of this section, “electric vehicle charging station” means a station that is designed in compliance with the California Building Standards Code and delivers electricity from a source outside an electric vehicle into one or more electric vehicles. An electric vehicle charging station may include several charge points simultaneously connecting several electric vehicles to the station and any related equipment needed to facilitate charging plug-in electric vehicles.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-d"
    },
    {
      "id": "e",
      "label": "(e)",
      "text": "If approval is required for the installation or use of an electric vehicle charging station, the application for approval shall be processed and approved by the association in the same manner as an application for approval of an architectural modification to the property, and shall not be willfully avoided or delayed. The approval or denial of an application shall be in writing. If an application is not denied in writing within 60 days from the date of receipt of the application, the application shall be deemed approved, unless that delay is the result of a reasonable request for additional information.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-e"
    },
    {
      "id": "f",
      "label": "(f)",
      "text": "If the electric vehicle charging station is to be placed in a common area or an exclusive use common area, as designated in the common interest development’s declaration, the following provisions apply:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-1",
      "label": "(f)(1)",
      "text": "The owner first shall obtain approval from the association to install the electric vehicle charging station and the association shall approve the installation if the owner agrees in writing to do all of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-1-A",
      "label": "(f)(1)(A)",
      "text": "Comply with the association’s architectural standards for the installation of the charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-1-A"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-1-B",
      "label": "(f)(1)(B)",
      "text": "Engage a licensed contractor to install the charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-1-B"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-1-C",
      "label": "(f)(1)(C)",
      "text": "Within 14 days of approval, provide a certificate of insurance as required by paragraph (3).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-1-C"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-1-D",
      "label": "(f)(1)(D)",
      "text": "Pay for both the costs associated with the installation of and the electricity usage associated with the charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-1-D"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-2",
      "label": "(f)(2)",
      "text": "The owner and each successive owner of the charging station shall be responsible for all of the following:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-2-A",
      "label": "(f)(2)(A)",
      "text": "Costs for damage to the charging station, common area, exclusive use common area, or separate interests resulting from the installation, maintenance, repair, removal, or replacement of the charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-2-A"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-2-B",
      "label": "(f)(2)(B)",
      "text": "Costs for the maintenance, repair, and replacement of the charging station until it has been removed and for the restoration of the common area after removal.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-2-B"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-2-C",
      "label": "(f)(2)(C)",
      "text": "The cost of electricity associated with the charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-2-C"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-2-D",
      "label": "(f)(2)(D)",
      "text": "Disclosing to prospective buyers the existence of any charging station of the owner and the related responsibilities of the owner under this section.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-2-D"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-3",
      "label": "(f)(3)",
      "text": "The owner of the charging station, whether located within a separate unit or within the common area or exclusive use common area, shall, at all times, maintain a liability coverage policy. The owner that submitted the application to install the charging station shall provide the association with the corresponding certificate of insurance within 14 days of approval of the application. That owner and each successor owner shall provide the association with the certificate of insurance annually thereafter.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-3"
    },
    {
      "id": "f-4",
      "label": "(f)(4)",
      "text": "A homeowner shall not be required to maintain a homeowner liability coverage policy for an existing National Electrical Manufacturers Association standard alternating current power plug.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-f-4"
    },
    {
      "id": "g",
      "label": "(g)",
      "text": "Except as provided in subdivision (h), installation of an electric vehicle charging station for the exclusive use of an owner in a common area, that is not an exclusive use common area, shall be authorized by the association only if installation in the owner’s designated parking space is impossible or unreasonably expensive. In such cases, the association shall enter into a license agreement with the owner for the use of the space in a common area, and the owner shall comply with all of the requirements in subdivision (f).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-g"
    },
    {
      "id": "h",
      "label": "(h)",
      "text": "The association or owners may install an electric vehicle charging station in the common area for the use of all members of the association and, in that case, the association shall develop appropriate terms of use for the charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-h"
    },
    {
      "id": "i",
      "label": "(i)",
      "text": "An association may create a new parking space where one did not previously exist to facilitate the installation of an electric vehicle charging station.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-i"
    },
    {
      "id": "j",
      "label": "(j)",
      "text": "An association that willfully violates this section shall be liable to the applicant or other party for actual damages, and shall pay a civil penalty to the applicant or other party in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-j"
    },
    {
      "id": "k",
      "label": "(k)",
      "text": "In any action by a homeowner requesting to have an electric vehicle charging station installed and seeking to enforce compliance with this section, the prevailing plaintiff shall be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/ev-charging#s4745-k"
    }
  ]
}