MILILANI, Hawaii -- Residents who belong to neighborhood or condominium associations are sometimes prohibited from line drying. State lawmakers are superceding those rules.

The bill is to allow single-family home and townhouse owners to put up clotheslines anywhere they want.

With electricity costs soaring, hanging your clothes out to dry is an easy way to save money and go green at the same time.

Such an action is not possible now in places like Mililani. Almost all planned communities and residential developments have very strict rules. Walking through the neighborhoods you don't see laundry hanging anywhere.

In Mililani, clotheslines must be hidden behind hedges and fences. Resident Henry Lee favors prohibiting favors laundry lines out of sight.

"A lot of time people leave it up for days. They don't just put it up there and take it down. It looks more ghetto to me," Lee said. "It doesn't look nice."

However, Mililani retiree Robin Saranillio wants to put a line in his garden.

"You hang it outside in the sun. Its good, dries faster. I am all for that," he said. "I like it, the bill pass, save money. You don't have to use the dryer."

Saranillio said he is tired of hiding laundry in the dark behind his house.

Mililani Town Association manager Calvin Maeda opposed the "right to dry" bill. He said Mililani residents are used to beautiful views.

"They look out of their kitchen windows -- they look at the flowers and things that are outside of their window, and now all of a sudden now you may have underwear hanging out there; things that you normally do not want to see," Maeda said.

Environmentalists say outside drying reduces greenhouse gas emissions and saves residents money. They say it can save each Oahu resident more than $300 a year on their electric bill.