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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Sturgis made Rally camping a by-right use in residential yards
Ordinance 2026-03 repealed and replaced Sturgis Chapter 91, allowing three camping units and ten campers with no permit during a Rally window extended to seven days before the official dates.
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S. 366 would have voided every HOA foreclosure clause in South Carolina. It sat in committee for 26 months
The Senate bill combining a foreclosure ban on primary residences, officer-payment disclosure, a limit on association speech restrictions and expanded flag rights was referred to Judiciary in February 2025 and never moved.
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Vermont park co-ops got a one-year funding bridge
Act 155 of 2026 treats a mobile home park organised as a limited equity cooperative as a nonprofit for state grants — and repeals that treatment on July 1, 2027.
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Wyoming’s governor is suing his own tax board over the 4% residential cap
The State Board of Equalization refused to certify 2026 residential values, calling the property tax cap unconstitutional; Governor Gordon sued the board he appoints, a judge ordered certification, and the board counterclaimed.
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Tennessee's dead ADU bill would have spared HOA covenants
A bill stripping Tennessee cities of most power to block accessory dwelling units carried an express carve-out leaving deed restrictions and association rules fully enforceable. It was parked in subcommittee in March 2026 and died.
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Utah caps the HOA late fee at $50
H.B. 217 capped a community association's late fee at the lesser of 10% of the assessment or $50, capped interest at 1.5% a month, and required a board-adopted fee schedule before any fee is imposed.
Read the full updateThe districts that work like HOAs stay capped at 3%
SB 230 would have exempted SDCL chapter 7-25A improvement districts — South Dakota's quasi-governmental analogue to a large association — from the revenue-growth cap. Senate Taxation tabled it 6-0 without a floor vote.
Read the full updateA utilities ban, a $3-per-unit registration fee and a foreclosure checkpoint are all being reported as South Carolina law. All three are dead bills
Provisions from H. 3425, H. 5204 and H. 3447 are circulating with their bill effective dates attached as though enacted. None of the three bills left committee alive, and the HOA Act is unamended since 2019.
Read the full updateVermont's twelve-unit floor, and the $300 exemption
A small Vermont planned community or cooperative can sit entirely outside the common-interest act — no lien, no records right, no resale certificate, no open meetings.
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A proposed Virginia rule would double manager licence fees and add a bond
The Common Interest Community Board's proposed rewrite of 18VAC48-50 would raise manager fees from $100 to $200, extend licences to two years, require a fidelity bond and bar undisclosed vendor payments.
Read the full updateWyoming’s 25% homeowner exemption now asks where you actually live
From tax year 2026 the 25% exemption requires the claimant to reside in the home at least eight months of the year, filed annually with the county assessor by March 1 — and condominiums and townhouses are named in the statute.
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The $1,000-a-day TREC penalty for Texas HOAs is not law — the bill died in committee
A widely repeated claim that Texas property owners' associations face a $1,000 first-day and $500 per-day TREC filing penalty traces to HB 4447, which never left committee; the companion SB 2586 died in the House after passing the Senate.
Read the full updateA community refused to waive a covenant unless the applicant accepted four conditions. The Fourth Circuit said that asks the wrong question
Group Home on Gibson Island v. Gibson Island Corporation, decided July 15, 2025, is binding in South Carolina and reframes how courts assess a Fair Housing Act accommodation request to waive a restrictive covenant.
Read the full updateIn Vermont a condominium is a public building by statute
20 V.S.A. § 2730(a)(1)(C) names “a cooperative or condominium” as a public building, and Vermont adopted a new Fire and Building Safety Code in November 2025 — its first since 2016.
Read the full updateUtah puts defensible space ahead of the landscaping covenant
H.B. 215 bars an association rule from stopping an owner in a designated wildland-urban interface area from removing vegetation the wildfire code requires them to clear.
Read the full updateA one-paragraph fix that keeps common-area easements alive
SDCL 43-13-6.1, enacted in 2025, makes an easement created by an owner valid despite common ownership of the benefited and burdened land — closing a merger-doctrine trap that reached drainage and access easements in new subdivisions.
Read the full updateVirginia bills on condemning HOA common area both carried over
HB 1196 and SB 746 would require an association common area's physical characteristics to be considered when valuing it in eminent domain. Both were continued to 2027; the Senate vote was 15–0.
Read the full updateLaramie County’s new land use rules say three times that covenants are not its job
The 306-page land use regulations adopted in August 2025 require covenants to be referenced on the plat, then state in three separate places that the county will not enforce them — and set stricter-of-the-two as the rule where code and covenant conflict.
Read the full updateVermont lets boards bill charger upgrades to the EV owners
Act 168's new § 3-125 gives Vermont boards an express power to assess electrical-infrastructure costs against the units of owners who install chargers, and a 14-day insurance reimbursement clock.
Read the full updateFour political-sign bills in four years, none enacted: South Carolina HOAs still set their own sign rules
S. 68 and H. 5068 would have protected election signs for a defined window with size and quantity floors. Both died in Judiciary, leaving South Carolina without any political-sign statute for covenanted communities.
Read the full updatePlatting a road is not the same as the city taking it on
Turgeon v. City of Spearfish holds that a 2012 plat dedicated a road but the city never expressly accepted it — and sends the implied-acceptance question to trial. SDCL 11-6-33 says plat approval is not acceptance.
Read the full updateReported: missing HOA funds expose a Tennessee licensing gap
A television investigation into a Middle Tennessee management company, and a TBI referral that followed it, put a verified structural fact on the record: the state licenses real estate brokers and mortgage originators but not the people holding association operating and reserve accounts.
Read the full updateA Utah proxy form that did not name its purpose was void
The state's HOA ombudsman upheld a board-removal petition at a St. George association but invalidated every vote cast on a second proxy form because it failed to state the meeting's purpose.
Read the full updateA wildfire standard reached Wyoming that contradicts standard landscaping covenants
IBHS extended its Wildfire Prepared Home programme to Wyoming in April 2026, requiring a five-foot zone clear of vegetation, wood mulch, firewood and combustible fencing — while insurers reprice and Wyoming has no state defensible-space code.
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