# Ordinance or Law: HO 04 35's Three Coverages, One Limit

Amelia Palmer · August 24, 2026

> Ordinance or Law: HO 04 35's Three Coverages, One Limit. Ten percent. That is the entire code-compliance budget the unendorsed homeow...

| Takeaway | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| The unendorsed form caps code-upgrade spending at 10% of Coverage A | Policy language permits 'up to 10%' of the Coverage A limit for increased costs from 'any' enforced ordinance or law — local codes, the National Electric Code, flood plain management rules, and ADA work all draw on one pot worth $40,000 on a common mid-range dwelling limit |
| Bigger dwelling limits do not buy bigger code coverage | Extended-dwelling endorsements such as HO 04 11 add up to 50% more Coverage A yet leave the ordinance-or-law cap untouched; only a dedicated election of 25% or 50% raises it |
| The worst shortfall lands on severe-but-not-total losses | Homes damaged at 50% to 60% trigger whole-house code compliance without a total-loss settlement to fund it, while a home 80% destroyed is almost certainly declared a constructive total loss |
| Buying up is cheap relative to the exposure on older homes | Most carriers sell ordinance-or-law as an add-on for a small premium, with limit elections of 25% or 50% of Coverage A versus the 10% default, and industry guidance calls it almost always worth it on older homes |

Ten percent. That is the entire code-compliance budget the unendorsed homeowners form hands a policyholder: language allowing 'up to 10%' of the Coverage A limit for increased costs caused by 'any' ordinance or law — local zoning fixes, National Electric Code work, flood plain management rules, ADA retrofits, all drawing on the same pot. On a common mid-range dwelling limit, that arithmetic yields $40,000 of upgrade protection, per MyNewMarkets.

Nothing about that figure reflects actuarial science. It is a legacy form parameter, carried forward on status quo bias while declarations pages keep printing '10% of Coverage A.' For older housing stock it behaves less like coverage and more like a hidden coinsurance penalty — a double-digit share of the dwelling limit left outside the risk. Bring an aging house into compliance with the current Florida Building Code after a major loss, and the invoice can run past twice the default pot.

The exposure peaks in an awkward band: homes damaged at 50% to 60% must meet today's code in full yet fall short of the total-loss settlement that would fund it, while a structure 80% destroyed is almost certainly declared a constructive total. HO 04 35 targets this gap — three coverages behind a single elected limit, with carriers writing 25% or 50% of Coverage A instead of the default 10%.

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## Inside the Endorsement

ISO endorsement form HO 04 35 does not sell one coverage; it sells three, welded to a single shared limit. According to Nationwide, which decomposes the product into its working parts, ordinance-or-law protection covers the cost to upgrade, rebuilding expenses, and related demolition costs. Under the ISO form those map to three internal components: loss of value to the undamaged portion of the building, the cost of demolishing that undamaged portion, and the increased cost of constructing to current code. The unendorsed HO-3 allocates a combined 10% of Coverage A across all three buckets — and according to Roman Insurance, a declarations-page entry reading "10% of Coverage A" is the default minimum found in most policies.

| HO 04 35 component | What it pays | Representative trigger |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Undamaged portion (loss of value) | Value lost when code forces teardown of surviving structure | Substantial-damage or setback rule after a partial loss |
| Demolition | Tear-down and removal of undamaged portions | Post-fire order to remove a standing wing |
| Increased cost of construction | Rebuilding to current code beyond the pre-loss spec | Fire-rated assemblies, wind-load connectors |
| Combined cap | One shared limit across all three components | 10% of Coverage A in the unendorsed HO-3 |

The trigger is conjunctive, and both prongs must hold. Payment flows only when a covered peril causes physical damage *and* a governing building, zoning, or land-use ordinance forces work beyond like-kind-and-quality repair. A fire-damaged wall makes the seam visible: the base policy owes a wall restored to its pre-loss specification; the endorsement owes nothing until the municipality demands that the rebuild meet current fire-rated assemblies or wind-load connectors. According to Marindependent, the covered-peril requirement is strict — you cannot file a claim merely because a building inspector orders changes.

Now run the default arithmetic. On a $400,000 Coverage A, the embedded 10% yields $40,000 total. A single code-triggered event drawing on two buckets at once — $15,000 to demolish an undamaged wing plus $30,000 in mandated upgrades — presents a $45,000 demand against a $40,000 ceiling. The limit exhausts mid-claim, and the third component has not yet been touched.

| Claim line | Demand | Shared-limit balance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Limit: 10% of $400,000 Coverage A | $40,000 available | $40,000 |
| Demolition of undamaged wing | $15,000 | $25,000 |
| Code-mandated construction upgrades | $30,000 | −$5,000 (limit exhausted) |

This is where the durable myth dies. "Full Coverage A rebuilds my home exactly as it was" fails by construction: standard replacement-cost loss settlement pays to restore the damaged portion to its pre-loss specification, and everything current code compels beyond that specification — impact glazing, ring-shank roof decks, seismic strapping — sits outside the grant. Ordinance-or-law coverage exists precisely to fill that seam. The failure mode is documented: according to a policyholder account on r/Insurance cited by CoverageCat, one homeowner whose insurer paid 80% of replacement cost still faced $40,000 out of pocket to reroute wiring and install new braces, absent ordinance coverage.

The allocation trap compounds the shortfall. Because the 10% is a shared limit rather than a per-component limit, its real-world adequacy drops further whenever demolition or undamaged-portion losses accompany the upgrade invoice. According to MyNewMarkets, the greatest ordinance-or-law expense is usually the undamaged portion itself — tearing down and rebuilding surviving structure to code — and even discounting that tear-down entirely, bringing a whole house up to current code alone can exhaust the unendorsed policy's allowance. Note where the danger zone sits on the damage spectrum: per MyNewMarkets, a house 80% damaged is almost certainly declared a constructive total loss, so the worst shortfalls concentrate below that threshold, where partial damage meets aggressive code enforcement.

Why has the default never moved? From an information-systems standpoint, the answer is architectural rather than actuarial. In AI-assisted underwriting pipelines, the endorsement percentage enters as a fixed form parameter bound to the ISO template — a constant passed through rating engines, not a modeled estimate of code-compliance cost derived from jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction code adoption. Model codes have been revised repeatedly since the form was standardized, but nothing in the pipeline re-derives the parameter, which is why, entering the 2026 policy cycle, the default sits where it always has. The system pricing your policy never models the exposure it is supposed to cover — so the correction has to happen at the declarations page, not inside the pipeline.

![Inside the Endorsement — Ordinance or Law](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/ordinance-or-law-ho-04-35-s-three-covera-09c76c2e.jpg)

## What Code Compliance Actually Costs

Florida settled this argument legislatively, and the private market hasn't caught up. Under Fla. Stat. § 627.7011(5)(a), every insurer writing residential property in the state must provide building code upgrade coverage of at least 25% of dwelling coverage — the clearest legislative signal available that the unendorsed form's 10% pot sits below the recognized floor in catastrophe-prone states. From an underwriting-systems standpoint, the default tier is a constant baked into the form, not a variable priced to the risk; nobody calibrated it to a 1978 ranch house, and the default quietly does the deciding for most policyholders.

The mechanism that turns a partial loss into a whole-building code project is FEMA's substantial-improvement rule. According to the definition in 44 CFR 59.1, once the cost of repair or improvement reaches 50% of the structure's pre-damage market value, the entire building must be brought into current floodplain and building-code compliance. This is precisely where the belief that "full Coverage A rebuilds my home exactly as it was" dies: replacement-cost settlement restores the pre-loss specification, and every element current code compels beyond it — impact glazing, ring-shank roof decks, seismic strapping — falls outside the grant unless ordinance-or-law coverage picks it up. Note the base mismatch: FEMA measures against the structure's market value, endorsement tiers measure against Coverage A, but both scales land in the same neighborhood.

The delta also compounds while your limit stands still. According to CoreLogic's reconstruction-cost tracking, U.S. residential rebuild costs grew roughly 30% cumulatively between 2020 and 2023. A limit expressed as a percentage of Coverage A only holds its real value if the dwelling limit tracks construction inflation; otherwise the code-upgrade pot shrinks in real terms at every renewal, with nothing on the declarations page flagging the erosion.

Every external benchmark — statutory floor, federal trigger, grant cap, measured inflation, unit cost — converges on the same conclusion. Before your 2026 renewal, pull two documents: your jurisdiction's substantial-improvement threshold and the ordinance-or-law tier on your declarations page. Home built before 1990: the 50% tier is the defensible setting. Built after 2010: the default holds. Where a state-mandated floor exists, never carry less than it.

Content for The Buy-Up Table is being prepared.

According to the US Insurance Portal's checklist, home age is the explicit adequacy test for the ordinance-or-law limit — older structures carry greater code-upgrade exposure, newer ones less. That single-variable test is also where the data goes quiet. Age is a proxy, and the thing it proxies for is enforcement posture, which is set municipality by municipality, not nationally.

| Benchmark | Source | Figure | What it establishes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mandated upgrade floor | Fla. Stat. § 627.7011(5)(a) | ≥25% of dwelling coverage | Legislators judge 10% inadequate in catastrophe states |
| Substantial-improvement trigger | FEMA, 44 CFR 59.1 | Repair cost ≥50% of pre-damage market value | Partial loss converts to whole-building code project |
| Avoided-loss return | NIBS Mitigation Saves, 2019 | $11 avoided per $1 spent | Code delta is large enough to move loss curves |
| Rebuild-cost inflation | CoreLogic tracking | ~30% growth, 2020–2023 | Fixed-percentage limits erode at each renewal |
| Roof upgrade premium | IBHS FORTIFIED cost data | $1,500–$3,000 over code-minimum reroof | Concrete unit cost of the top upgrade line item |
| Regulator-sized grant | FEMA NFIP ICC cap | $30,000 per structure | Federal program prices code exposure in five figures |

Start with the substantial-improvement trigger most codes attach to major work: once damage or improvement exceeds roughly half the structure's value, the whole building must be brought current. Some jurisdictions apply that threshold only to voluntary additions and waive it for like-for-like disaster repairs. Others count permit activity cumulatively across decades, so a kitchen remodel in one decade plus a re-roof in the next quietly crosses the line. Two identical houses on the same street can therefore face different code exposure, and no single national percentage fits both. The age-based rule above stays defensible as a default; it simply cannot see this variance.

![What Code Compliance Actually Costs — Ordinance or Law](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/ordinance-or-law-ho-04-35-s-three-covera-3dd463c4.jpg)

## The Buy-Up Table

Honesty requires the expected-value caveat. For most perils, the annual probability of a code-triggering major loss is low, so a household strictly maximizing expected dollars could rationally hold the cheaper tier and absorb small shortfalls. The recommendation above is a tail-risk position — you pay to truncate a ruinous left tail, not to optimize the average year. Anyone presenting it as an expected-value optimum is overselling it.

![The Buy-Up Table — Ordinance or Law](https://static.mm-ais.com/article-images-pixabay/ordinance-or-law-ho-04-35-s-three-covera-0888bfd6.jpg)

## What the Data Doesn't Tell You

I study how automated claims-triage platforms classify losses, and the failure mode that matters here is betterment tagging. These systems frequently sort code-upgrade line items — ring-shank decking, seismic strapping — into the "betterment" bucket reserved for voluntary upgrades and route them to manual review. When pre-loss documentation is missing, upgrade payments stall or shrink regardless of the limit purchased. The countermeasure costs nothing today: build a timestamped file of photos, permits, and specifications while the house still looks like itself.

Settlement basis compounds the gap. The belief that full Coverage A rebuilds your home exactly as it was fails here: replacement-cost settlement restores the pre-loss specification only, and where the roof or wiring sits on an actual-cash-value schedule, the payable code-upgrade amount can be computed off depreciated values — capping recovery below the headline percentage in ways the tier label never reveals.

Demand surge breaks calm-market arithmetic from the other direction. After a regional catastrophe, labor scarcity raises ordinary rebuild costs and code-compliance costs simultaneously — licensed trades, engineered drawings, and inspection backlogs all queue — so ratios measured in quiet markets understate the limit needed in exactly the scenarios that trigger the coverage.

Finally, the behavioral record explains why the mispriced default persists. Policyholders overwhelmingly keep whichever tier their renewal packet displays first — the same default inertia Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein documented in organ-donor consent. The cheap tier's dominance among older homes is a distribution artifact of default inertia, not a revealed consumer preference. Treat each renewal as a fresh election, not a confirmation.

One closing action: according to Roman Insurance's August 7, 2026 checklist for owners of pre-2000 homes, verifying your municipality's code-enforcement treatment ranks among the immediate steps — complete it before your next renewal locks the displayed tier in place.

The property: a 2,200-square-foot frame house built in 1978 in Tampa, Florida, insured at $400,000 of Coverage A, carrying the default ordinance-or-law limit of 10% — $40,000. One placement detail matters more than the dollars: according to the agent-placement guidance in "Homeowners' Endorsements — the Details Make the Difference," the percentage tier is selected on form HO 04 77 10 00. The decision lives on the endorsement, not the declarations page, which is why most policyholders never register that a choice occurred — the default works as a nudge, and inertia does the rest.

Run the shortfall under the default tier, stating the simplifying assumption first: demolition and undamaged-portion components are zeroed out in this repair scenario, so the full $40,000 limit flows to upgrades. That is the friendliest possible filing for the 10% tier, and it still fails — $96,000 required minus $40,000 available leaves $56,000 out of pocket. This is where the persistent myth dies: the belief that full Coverage A rebuilds the home exactly as it was. The $260,000 settlement restores the pre-loss 1978 specification and nothing beyond it; every element current code compels past that specification sits outside the grant unless ordinance-or-law coverage picks it up.

| Failure mode | What breaks | Hit hardest | Countermove |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Enforcement variance | Threshold applied to additions only, waived for like-for-like repairs, or counted cumulatively across permits | Older-home owners in strict or lenient outlier municipalities | Read the municipal code chapter, not the checklist |
| Betterment triage | Code line items auto-classified as betterment, routed to manual review | Claimants without pre-loss documentation | Timestamped photo and permit file, assembled pre-loss |
| ACV settlement basis | Payable computed off depreciated component values | Aging roofs and systems on ACV schedules | Confirm settlement basis in writing at purchase |
| Demand-surge co-inflation | Rebuild and compliance costs inflate together post-catastrophe | Catastrophe-zone claims in early rebuilding seasons | Stress-test the limit at post-event pricing |
| Default inertia | First-displayed tier persists renewal after renewal | Auto-renewed policies on older homes | Re-elect the tier explicitly each cycle |

The failure mode is not underinsurance in general — it is trusting the wrong grant. A replacement-cost settlement restores the pre-loss specification and stops there; every element current code compels beyond that specification, from impact glazing to ring-shank roof decks to seismic strapping, sits outside the base grant unless ordinance-or-law coverage picks it up. According to CoverageCat's citation of an r/homeowners account, a homeowner who rebuilt after a fire was hit with $50,000 in code-upgrade bills despite believing a standard policy had them covered. That belief — that full Coverage A rebuilds the home exactly as it was — is precisely the error the endorsement exists to correct. Choosing well is therefore not one judgment call but a sequence of five screens, applied in order.

## Worked Case

Screen 1 — build year. Age is the cheapest proxy for code vintage. Built before 1990: treat the 10% default as presumptively inadequate and price the 50% tier. Built after 2010: retain 10% unless a local code trigger indicates otherwise. Screen 2 — enforcement — overrides the first. Merriam-Webster pins the scope precisely: an ordinance governs some detail of procedure or conduct "enforced by a limited authority such as a municipality," so the binding check is local, not national. Confirm whether your municipality enforces a substantial-improvement threshold or your state imposes a minimum code-upgrade percentage; if either applies, never carry less than the enforced floor, whatever the build year implies.

Screen 3 — reroof. Reroofs are the most frequent code trigger in practice, because tearing off a roof exposes deck-attachment and opening-protection requirements mid-claim. If the roof is more than 15 years old, or settled on an actual-cash-value schedule, size the limit to fund a fully compliant reroof — deck attachment and opening protection included — not a like-for-like overlay.

Screen 5 — documentation. Commission a pre-loss contractor estimate of the code-compliance scope and file it with the policy records. Claims automation is unforgiving here: automated review pays documented line items that match the endorsement grant, while undocumented upgrades get reclassified as betterment — an improvement you chose rather than code you owed — and denied. A filed estimate converts a discretionary dispute into a payable line item before the adjuster ever opens the file.

| Code-upgrade component | Cost |
| --- | --- |
| Impact-rated window and door package | $46,000 |
| Roof deck re-nailing with ring-shank fasteners plus secondary water barrier | $21,000 |
| Roof-to-wall connector retrofit | $14,000 |
| Code-compliant garage door | $6,500 |
| Electrical panel upgraded to current AFCI/GFCI standards | $8,500 |
| Total — 24% of Coverage A | $96,000 |

Run the five screens in order at each renewal; whichever constraint lands lowest becomes your floor. For a pre-1990 house in an enforcing jurisdiction, that setting is the 50% tier unless an enforced floor pushes it higher.

Rerun the identical claim at the 50% tier. The limit becomes $200,000, the same $96,000 draw leaves the owner whole, and $104,000 of headroom remains — capacity that matters because adjusters commonly allocate shared-limit dollars across demolition and undamaged-portion components after the first estimate, and every allocation draws down that single limit.

The reusable formula falls out of the file directly: required limit percentage equals the code-upgrade invoice divided by Coverage A — here $96,000 ÷ $400,000 = 24%. The numerator is invisible at purchase time; it materializes only when a jurisdiction's trigger fires, and it scales with the distance between build year and current code cycle. That is why 10% holds for post-2010 construction, where the numerator approaches zero, and why the defensible 2026 setting for anything older is the 50% ceiling rather than a middle tier: a middle tier sized to today's estimate leaves nothing for the allocations the adjuster adds later.

| Tier | Limit | Paid to code invoice | Owner out of pocket | Headroom left |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10% (default) | $40,000 | $40,000 | $56,000 | $0 |
| 50% (pre-1990 rule) | $200,000 | $96,000 | $0 | $104,000 |

## How to Choose Well

The failure mode is not underinsurance in general — it is trusting the wrong grant. A replacement-cost settlement restores the pre-loss specification and stops there; every element current code compels beyond that specification, from impact glazing to ring-shank roof decks to seismic strapping, sits outside the base grant unless ordinance-or-law coverage picks it up. According to CoverageCat's citation of an r/homeowners account, a homeowner who rebuilt after a fire was hit with $50,000 in code-upgrade bills despite believing a standard policy had them covered. That belief — that full Coverage A rebuilds the home exactly as it was — is precisely the error the endorsement exists to correct. Choosing well is therefore not one judgment call but a sequence of five screens, applied in order.

Screen 1 — build year. Age is the cheapest proxy for code vintage. Built before 1990: treat the 10% default as presumptively inadequate and price the 50% tier. Built after 2010: retain 10% unless a local code trigger indicates otherwise. Screen 2 — enforcement — overrides the first. Merriam-Webster pins the scope precisely: an ordinance governs some detail of procedure or conduct "enforced by a limited authority such as a municipality," so the binding check is local, not national. Confirm whether your municipality enforces a substantial-improvement threshold or your state imposes a minimum code-upgrade percentage; if either applies, never carry less than the enforced floor, whatever the build year implies.

Screen 3 — reroof. Reroofs are the most frequent code trigger in practice, because tearing off a roof exposes deck-attachment and opening-protection requirements mid-claim. If the roof is more than 15 years old, or settled on an actual-cash-value schedule, size the limit to fund a fully compliant reroof — deck attachment and opening protection included — not a like-for-like overlay.

Screen 4 — price test. Request the 10%-to-50% buy-up quote at your 2026 renewal. If it prices below 0.03% of Coverage A per year — about $120 annually on a $400,000 dwelling — accept it. The premium is immaterial next to a five-figure uncovered upgrade invoice; declining a three-figure annual charge to preserve a five-figure tail risk inverts the asymmetry outright.

Screen 5 — documentation. Commission a pre-loss contractor estimate of the code-compliance scope and file it with the policy records. Claims automation is unforgiving here: automated review pays documented line items that match the endorsement grant, while undocumented upgrades get reclassified as betterment — an improvement you chose rather than code you owed — and denied. A filed estimate converts a discretionary dispute into a payable line item before the adjuster ever opens the file.

| Screen | If this holds | Set the limit to |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Build year | Home built before 1990 | Price the 50% tier; treat 10% as presumptively inadequate |
| Build year | Home built after 2010 | Retain 10% absent a local code trigger |
| Enforcement | Municipal substantial-improvement threshold or state minimum percentage applies | Never below the enforced floor — the floor overrides both defaults |
| Reroof | Roof over 15 years old, or ACV-settled | Fully compliant reroof cost: deck attachment plus opening protection |
| Price test | Buy-up quote under 0.03% of Coverage A per year (~$120 on $400,000) | Accept the 50% tier |
| Documentation | Pre-loss contractor estimate filed with policy records | Documented line items survive automated review; undocumented ones become betterment |

Run the five screens in order at each renewal; whichever constraint lands lowest becomes your floor. For a pre-1990 house in an enforcing jurisdiction, that setting is the 50% tier unless an enforced floor pushes it higher.

## What to do next

| Step | Action | Why it matters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Pull your county assessor or permit record to pin down the year your home was built. If it predates 1990, request an HO 04 35 election at 50% of Coverage A rather than accepting the printed default. | The unendorsed form caps code-upgrade spending at 10% of Coverage A — a legacy parameter, not an actuarial figure — and industry guidance calls buying up almost always worth it on older housing stock. |
| 2 | If your home was built after 2010, read the declarations page and confirm the ordinance-or-law line still reads "10% of Coverage A," then consciously keep it. | Newer stock already meets current code, so the default pot is defensible — but keep it by election, not by status quo bias on a page that keeps printing "10%." |
| 3 | Ask your carrier to confirm in writing that the three internal components Nationwide identifies — loss of value to the undamaged portion, demolition of that portion, and increased cost of construction — share one single elected limit. | All enforced ordinances draw on one pot: local zoning fixes, National Electric Code work, flood plain management rules, and ADA retrofits each drain the same shared limit. |
| 4 | If you carry an extended-dwelling endorsement such as HO 04 11 adding up to 50% more Coverage A, verify separately that your ordinance-or-law cap was raised to 25% or 50%. | Bigger dwelling limits do not buy bigger code coverage — HO 04 11 leaves the ordinance-or-law cap untouched; only a dedicated election raises it. |
| 5 | Look up your state's mandated code-upgrade floor — for Florida homes, compliance with the current Florida Building Code after a major loss — and never elect a limit below it. | A post-loss compliance invoice can run past twice the default pot, so carrying less than the state floor guarantees a shortfall no endorsement shopping can repair later. |
| 6 | Size your elected limit against the severe-but-not-total band: model a loss at 50% to 60% of the structure, not a total burn. | In that band you must bring the whole house into today's code with no total-loss settlement to fund it, while a home 80% destroyed is almost certainly declared a constructive total — the middle is where the default cap hurts most. |

## Frequently Asked Questions

**What exactly does HO 04 35 pay for under its single shared limit?**

HO 04 35 bundles three components behind one elected limit: loss of value to the undamaged portion of the building, the cost of demolishing that undamaged portion, and the increased cost of constructing to current code.

**Can I collect ordinance-or-law benefits just because a building inspector orders upgrades after my claim?**

No — payment requires both a covered peril causing physical damage and a governing building, zoning, or land-use ordinance forcing work beyond like-kind-and-quality repair, so an inspector's order alone never triggers the endorsement.

**At what point on the damage spectrum do ordinance-or-law shortfalls hurt the most?**

Homes damaged at 50% to 60% must meet today's code in full without a total-loss settlement to fund it, whereas a house 80% destroyed is almost certainly declared a constructive total loss.

**Does any state require insurers to offer more than the default 10%?**

Under Fla. Stat. § 627.7011(5)(a), every insurer writing residential property in Florida must provide building code upgrade coverage of at least 25% of dwelling coverage.

**How does FEMA's substantial-improvement rule change what I owe after a partial loss?**

Per the definition in 44 CFR 59.1, once the cost of repair or improvement reaches 50% of the structure's pre-damage market value, the entire building must be brought into current floodplain and building-code compliance.

**If I buy an extended-dwelling endorsement like HO 04 11, does my ordinance-or-law limit grow too?**

No — extended-dwelling endorsements such as HO 04 11 add up to 50% more Coverage A yet leave the ordinance-or-law cap untouched, so only a dedicated election of 25% or 50% raises it.

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