The Virginia Law § 15.2-958.3. "Financing clean energy programs" reads

E. A voluntary special assessment lien on real property other than a residential dwelling with fewer than five dwelling units or a condominium project as defined in § 55-79.2:

We really need to eliminate all these restrictions.  Give us back our freedom to decide.  Let the lenders not give consent as they have that prerogative elsewhere in the same law. . But it's time to acknowledge that hoemowners and condominum owners are intelligent enough that they don't need a state law to protect them from the benefits of PACE financing.  PACE exposes them to far less risk than using a Home Equity loan for the same purposes. 

At the very least this law should be changed to allow a condo association to put roof top solar or get a new high efficiency boiler- cooling tower or central plant using PACE financing.