Is this legal?

Phoenix just hit 100 straight days of over 100 degrees
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At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, David Martin took a water cooler and placed it on his driveway in front of his Goodyear, Ariz., home. He filled the cooler with water bottles and ice and told anyone who passed by to take one.


It was just a small gesture to help his neighbors during a hard time, Martin told The Washington Post. He decided to keep it going, and the cooler, with Martin’s offer of free chilled water, has sat outside his garage ever since. His neighbors have gratefully obliged.

So have delivery drivers, dog walkers and passersby playing basketball at a park near his house, especially this summer as southern Arizona scorches under a record-breaking heat wave.


The only objection, Martin was stunned to discover, came from his homeowners association.


In April, Martin’s HOA began fining him and his wife for violating an association rule to store items out of view, according to Martin and letters Martin shared with The Post.

It increased to hundreds of dollars in the following months. The group, whose complaints were first reported by AZFamily, threatens to continue fining Martin until he removes his water cooler, he said.

He refuses to pay……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/04/hoa-free-water-fine-arizona/