Entry doors: display of religious items: prohibitions.

(1) Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and prohibits a landlord from interfering with a tenant's quiet enjoyment of the premises. Existing law prohibits a landlord from prohibiting a tenant from posting or displaying political signs relating to an election or legislative vote, the initiative, referendum, or recall process, or issues before a public body for a vote, except under certain circumstances. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a property owner, as defined, from enforcing or adopting a restriction that prohibits the display of religious items on an entry door or entry door frame of a dwelling. (2) Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, prohibits the governing documents of a common interest development from prohibiting the posting or displaying of noncommercial signs, posters, flags, or banners on or in an owner's separate interest, except as specified. This bill would prohibit the governing documents of a common interest development from prohibiting the display of religious items, as defined, on the entry door or entry door frame of a common interest development member's separate interest. The bill would provide an exception to this prohibition for maintenance, repair, or replacement of an entry door or door frame, as specified.