Shutters should be the same size as the window opening. Whether one or in a pair, when held up to the window they should fit as if they were going to be closed.

QUESTION: Our condo is addressing the hurricane shutter issue and whether to make it mandatory for all apartments to have them. Is a majority vote of all unit owners needed to shutter the whole com… ...

After the 2004-2005 hurricanes, this section of the law was amended again several times. By this time, impact glass had supplanted shutters as the more common method of hurricane protection.