2026-09-10 · Kansas · Courts

Kansas boards asking what the courts have said about covenant enforcement recently have a short answer: nothing. A keyword sweep of every Kansas Court of Appeals advance-sheet volume from October 2024 through May 2026, and every Kansas Supreme Court volume from January 2025 through May 2026, produced exactly one community association case.¹

That case is Stonegate Motorplaza Condominium Association, Inc. v. HP Motorplaza, LLC, decided June 18, 2026, on the Apartment Ownership Act's treatment of undeveloped condominium land.

The terms searched, and the result

Homeowners Association. Condominium Association. Homes Association. Restrictive Covenant. Apartment Ownership Act. Community Association. Across both courts, published and unpublished, the advance sheets return nothing outside Stonegate.

The subjects with no Kansas authority from this period

Covenant enforcement and defences to it. Assessment lien foreclosure. Architectural control committee disputes. Declaration amendment challenges. The business judgment rule as applied to a Kansas nonprofit director. Implied reciprocal negative easements. The changed-conditions doctrine. Waiver and abandonment of covenants as an independent holding. Adverse possession and boundary disputes within platted subdivisions. Drainage and common-area negligence.

The Kansas Consumer Protection Act has not been applied to an association or its manager by any Kansas appellate court in this window. No Tenth Circuit case from Kansas addressed associations, fair housing and assistance animals, or debt-collection practices by an association's collection agent. The District of Kansas produced nothing notable on these subjects.

The short-term rental question, specifically

Whether a “single-family residential use” covenant reaches transient occupancy is one of the most litigated questions in American community association law. Kansas has not answered it in this period.

The nearest Kansas authority is Parkwood Hills Homes Association v. Ramakrishnan, No. 126,318, which enforced a six-month minimum-lease covenant against waiver and selective-enforcement defences. It was decided May 31, 2024 — before this window — and it is marked “NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION.”²

1. Stonegate Motorplaza Condominium Assoc. v. HP Motorplaza, No. 128,469 (Kan. Ct. App. June 18, 2026) — slip opinion ↩
2. Parkwood Hills Homes Ass'n v. Ramakrishnan, No. 126,318 (Kan. Ct. App. May 31, 2024) (unpublished) — slip opinion ↩
3. K.S.A. 58-4616, Records — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes ↩
4. K.S.A. 58-4608, Association powers and duties — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes ↩