Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin had passed laws forbidding bans on clothes lines, while Utah allows local jurisdictions to forbid such bans. 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. 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. The province of Ontario lifted bans on clothes lines in 2008. Some affluent Canadian suburban municipalities such as Hampstead, Québec or Outremont, Québec prohibit clotheslines. Images See also Airing Clothes horse Drying cabinet Enthalpy of vaporization Hills Hoist Overhead clothes airer Penman equation Project Laundry List, New-Hampshire, US, organisation to encourage outdoor drying References External links Article about washing lines and clothes pegs Project Laundry List "Instructables" article on minimizing the work involved in using a clothes line Laundry drying equipment Domestic life Domestic implements