Latest Legal Updates
Latest Legal Updates
HOA and condominium association legislation, court rulings and regulatory changes across every state, the District of Columbia and federal law — newest first.
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A new Virginia consumer-debt law reaches assessment collections in 2027
HB 444 enacts the Uniform Consumer Debt Default Judgments Act with a delayed July 1, 2027 effective date, adding pleading and notice steps before a default judgment on unpaid assessments.
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A San Antonio HOA lost a $32,000 judgment after a rental-ban amendment failed on notice
A Bexar County judgment reported in September 2026 voided a townhome association's short-term rental amendment for failing Texas notice requirements and held the association and its president liable for more than $32,000 in damages and fees.
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Charleston's tallest residential building went from engineering report to evacuation to bankruptcy sale in under three years
The Dockside condominium was evacuated on 48 hours' notice in February 2025 after a $151 million repair estimate. Owners voted against repairing, the board filed for Chapter 11, and the site was relisted in August 2026.
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A flooded Vermont park got its permits back on remand
The Environmental Division held Berlin applied the wrong bylaw to four repair permits at a mobile home park in the regulatory floodway, and sent them back to be decided on the merits.
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FinCEN wrote Wyoming HOAs out of the CTA, and is deleting what boards filed
A final rule effective August 14, 2026 limits beneficial ownership reporting to foreign entities; the preamble names homeowners associations twice, and FinCEN is deleting information already filed by U.S. persons.
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Twenty-eight condo flood policies in the whole state
The NFIP's authorization expires September 30, 2026. South Dakota holds roughly 2,537 active flood policies — of which 28 cover condominium buildings — so the national deadline is a small story here, and that smallness is the point.
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Utah cuts the HOA records clock to 10 business days
S.B. 122 replaced the old two-week window with a 10-business-day deadline, moved the $25-a-day penalty to the eleventh business day, and put condominiums on the same clock as of May 6, 2026.
Read the full updatePrince William County rewrote the towing rules for every association that tows
An October 2025 ordinance amendment sets new signage specifications, bars towing for lapsed registration until a set date, and requires associations to produce their towing contract to police on request.
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Tennessee bars HOAs from banning an owner's EV charger
Public Chapter 914 took effect July 1, 2026, stopping condominium and homeowners' associations from prohibiting a charging station on an owner's own property or designated parking space, while leaving reasonable placement restrictions intact.
Read the full updateThe clock to challenge an HOA assessment in South Carolina runs from the day it passed, not the day you were billed
In Leonard v. WildeWood, filed July 1, 2026, the Court of Appeals used Section 27-30-130(B)(1)(a)'s 'effective upon passage' language to fix the accrual date for a three-year limitations period.
Read the full updateA Vermont bill to void anti-business covenants got no meeting
H.306 would have invalidated covenants added after July 1, 2025 that block commercial or industrial use of commercially zoned land. It was referred to House Judiciary and never heard.
Read the full updateWyoming is drafting a title-freeze notice that sits on the county recorder
The Joint Corporations Committee voted in May 2026 to draft the ROCK Notice Act, letting an owner file a notice with the county clerk that blocks voluntary transfers for up to seven years — on the same recording system associations use to perfect assessment liens.
Read the full updateThe developer testified about his own 1976 covenant, and the court believed him
Hood v. Straatmeyer turned four covenant-drafting ambiguities into holdings, and the tie-breaker on the biggest one was live testimony from the man who wrote the covenant in 1976.
Read the full updateTexas FAIR Plan condominium rates fall 7.5% statewide, but the zone figures vary by 15 points
Commissioner's Order 2026-9939 approved the Texas FAIR Plan's 2026 residential rate filings effective 1 September 2026; the condominium form drops 7.5% statewide, with zone changes ranging from −21.0% to −5.5%.
Read the full updateHomeowners said the community promised to stop the harassment and then did nothing. That claim goes back to court
Meusel v. Woodside Plantation, filed August 5, 2026, reverses a dismissal with prejudice, holding that whether a duty was voluntarily assumed is a question of fact and SC has not adopted a physical-harm requirement.
Read the full updateUtah condominium owners get a budget veto for the first time
S.B. 122 enacted a brand-new Utah Code section 57-8-7.6 requiring condominium associations to adopt an annual budget and letting 51% of voting interests disapprove it within 45 days.
Read the full updateEvery Vermont unit sale now carries a flood map
Act 52 of 2025 rewrote 27 V.S.A. § 380 effective September 1, 2025: sellers must hand over the FEMA rate map itself, disclose flood history, and disclose any insurance mandate.
Read the full updateVirginia legalises backyard ADUs in 2027 and leaves your covenant standing
A new statute makes accessory dwelling units a permitted accessory use in every single-family zone from July 1, 2027 — and expressly declines to override a recorded declaration that bans them.
Read the full updateWyoming SF0099 hands electric utilities a 30-foot easement over pre-2006 lines
Chapter 102 of the 2026 session laws creates an easement by operation of law, up to 30 feet either side, wherever an undocumented electric line installed before January 1, 2006 crosses private land — including association common areas.
Read the full updateSioux Falls adopted a plan that wants fourplexes in existing blocks
Shape Sioux Falls 2050, adopted February 10, 2026, calls for tiny homes, ADUs and bi-attached through quad-plex dwellings throughout existing developed areas — and a comprehensive plan is the legal predicate for rezoning.
Read the full updateH. 3425 would have required quarterly HOA financial updates and a homeowner vote before unbudgeted spending. It died at first referral
The bill requiring South Carolina associations to distribute budgets, file them with Consumer Affairs, relinquish control of homeowner utilities and obtain approval before spending outside the budget never left committee.
Read the full updateA Vermont condo deposit can now be spent on the building
Act 96 of 2024 amended 27A V.S.A. § 4-110 so a declarant may withdraw a buyer's escrowed deposit for construction costs, provided a surety bond is in place and the buyer gets a copy.
Read the full updateVirginia's HOA ham-radio antenna bill died on the table
HB 2542 would have barred Virginia associations from prohibiting amateur radio antennas on an owner's own roof. A subcommittee tabled it in January 2025 and it was left in committee when the session ended.
Read the full updateAn unregistered Utah association cannot lien a lot
Utah conditions the assessment lien on current registration with the Department of Commerce — no lien arises during noncompliance, existing liens cannot be enforced, and a sale to a third party extinguishes them.
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