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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Two New Jersey bills on 55-plus resales point in opposite directions
A3466 would require age-restricted associations to let owners sell to buyers of any age. S1843 would lock resales to households that keep the community federally qualified. Both are pending in the same Legislature.
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Multifamily gets a seat on the accessibility board
Act 16 of 2026 rebuilt how Pennsylvania adopts the accessibility provisions of its construction code, added a multifamily-housing representative to the Accessibility Advisory Board and doubled member terms to four years.
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New Hampshire is approving lots on roads nobody will ever plow
Two 2025 amendments to RSA 674:41 made it easier to build on private and Class VI roads — the Class VI route now requires only a recorded waiver acknowledging the town will never maintain the road or be liable for losses.
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HUD deleted the assistance-animal playbook. The duty it explained is untouched.
HUD withdrew FHEO 2020-01 and FHEO Notice 2013-01 effective September 17, 2025, published April 6, 2026. The Fair Housing Act accommodation duty and the two-year private right of action are expressly preserved.
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Two sessions, 968 new laws, and not one changed how an Oklahoma HOA governs itself
A citation-by-citation sweep of the 60th Legislature's enacted measures finds no amendment to the Real Estate Development Act, and not a single bill even filed touching the condominium statute.
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HUD withdrew the assistance-animal guidance Oregon boards relied on
FHEO Notice 2020-01 and the 2013 service-animal notice were withdrawn effective September 17, 2025 — but the Fair Housing Act, Oregon's own fair housing law, and the two-year private right of action are all unchanged.
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HUD withdrew the assistance-animal guidance, not the duty
FHEO 2020-01 and FHEO 2013-01 were withdrawn effective September 17, 2025 — but the Fair Housing Act's accommodation duty, HUD's enforcement, and the homeowner's two-year private right of action are all untouched.
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Southern Nevada HOAs have until January 2027 to remove their nonfunctional turf
From January 1, 2027, Colorado River water delivered by the Southern Nevada Water Authority may not irrigate nonfunctional turf on property not zoned exclusively for single-family residence — which puts HOA streetscapes squarely inside the mandate.
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New York has two mandatory reserve study bills, they are not companions, and they disagree on who gets the filings
S7600 files reserve studies with the Attorney General. A8945 files them with the State Comptroller. Both would force catch-up funding on a statutory timetable that overrides any bylaw cap.
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Rhode Island's own statute website is serving superseded condominium law
Fifteen months after three condominium acts took effect, the General Assembly's codified General Laws pages for §§ 34-36.1-2.19, 3.08 and 3.13 still show the pre-2025 text — while other statutes enacted the same day are posted.
Read the full updateNew Mexico now has a state wildfire-hardening standard. Your covenants predate it.
The Wildfire Prepared Act took effect on signature in April 2025, pins certification to insurance-industry standards, and expressly creates no new right against a covenant.
Read the full updateA Mays Landing condo fee went from $350 to $624.77, and Trenton noticed
NJ.com reported in May 2026 that owners at The Village at Hardings Run faced a 78 percent monthly fee increase blamed on New Jersey's reserve statutes. Two relief bills followed within a month.
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A Montana subdivision's covenants expired because 62.5 percent is not two-thirds
In Charlie's Win, LLC v. Gallatin West Ranch Homeowners' Association, 2025 MT 47, the Montana Supreme Court held a 25-year covenant term lapsed in 2017 because the renewal vote counted only owners who voted, not all owners.
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Mississippi SB 2644 would have capped HOA estoppel fees at $200. It died without a hearing
Senator Kevin Blackwell's estoppel-certificate bill would have been Mississippi's first HOA-specific statute, with a 10-business-day deadline and a $200 fee ceiling. Its entire action history is two lines: referred January 19, died in committee February 3, 2026.
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North Dakota's smallest condominium projects just got a waiver, and two old limits are gone
Project review waivers now reach projects of ten or fewer units, and the 50 percent investor concentration and owner-occupancy requirements have been retired.
Read the full updateThe ADU bill leaves your covenant standing
Pennsylvania’s House passed statewide accessory dwelling units by right 139-62 — and wrote in an express carve-out preserving deed restrictions and planned-community documents. Municipalities would lose the power to ban ADUs; associations would keep it.
Read the full updateYour Oklahoma association files nothing with the state. Ever.
A domestic Oklahoma nonprofit pays $25 once to incorporate and then owes the Secretary of State no annual report, no annual certificate and no franchise tax — so nothing on file will ever show who runs the association.
Read the full updateNot one Condominium Act case in two years of Supreme Court opinions
Across all 88 New Hampshire Supreme Court opinions issued between January 2025 and September 2026, none construes RSA 356-B — and none addresses assessment liens, fines, board fiduciary duty or assistance animals either.
Read the full updateOregon forces counties to approve rebuilds, but not your HOA
Senate Bill 1561 strips local government discretion over restoring a dwelling destroyed by fire or other involuntary cause from January 1, 2027 — and says nothing at all about CC&Rs or architectural review.
Read the full updateAn Ohio bill would give your board 60 days' non-renewal notice, not 30
House Bill 652 would extend insurance non-renewal notice from 30 to 60 days for commercial lines and homeowners policies — and a condominium master policy is a commercial-lines policy, which almost nobody is covering as an association story.
Read the full updateThe condo lending shortcut disappeared in August — and the smallest New Mexico projects got a pass
Fannie Mae retired Limited Review and Freddie Mac retired Streamlined Review on August 3, 2026. Both expanded a no-review path for projects of ten units or fewer — unless the project sits under a master association.
Read the full updateNew York’s condo bill of rights passed the Senate twice and reaches almost nobody
S5089 cleared the Senate 60-0 and then 61-0 and has never reached an Assembly vote. Read its first sentence: it applies only to not-for-profit condominium associations managing 3,500 or more units.
Read the full updateNew Jersey bill would let towns exempt duplexes from condo structural inspections
S4365 would widen the “excluded structure” definition so a municipality could exempt duplexes and townhouses in rows of three from the 2023 law's structural inspections — but only by local ordinance.
Read the full updateAn arbitration clause in the CC&Rs took 50 Nevada homeowners out of court
A Clark County judge compelled arbitration in the Lake Las Vegas construction-defect case in May 2026, enforcing clauses in both the purchase agreements and the community's recorded declaration.
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