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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App-only gates now make an Oregon HOA rental legally unfit
Since January 1, 2026, ORS 90.320 requires a landlord using phone-app access control to offer at least one physical alternative — which puts owner-landlords in app-only communities in breach of the habitability statute.
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Oklahoma switched building codes yesterday, mid-way through your capital project
Seven 2024 International Codes took effect in Oklahoma on September 14, 2026, replacing the 2018 editions — so common-element work permitted from that date is scoped and priced against a different rulebook.
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New Mexico's highest court has not touched an HOA dispute in two years
A review of every New Mexico Supreme Court opinion filed since January 2025, the pending-case docket and seven certiorari tables returns no association, covenant or condominium case — and none is in the pipeline.
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Fargo's draft code would allow ADUs everywhere except cluster developments
The Land Development Code draft would permit one attached ADU per single- or two-unit lot, cap it at 1,000 square feet, require matching architecture — and exclude cluster developments entirely.
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If anyone is still billing your New York board for beneficial ownership filings, stop paying
FinCEN’s final rule, effective August 14, 2026, permanently exempts every entity created in the United States — and the rule’s preamble names homeowners associations as a category it did not need to exempt separately.
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A Rhode Island condominium gets double the erosion setback — and the same four-boat dock
The Coastal Resources Management Council's Red Book doubles the erosion setback multiplier for dwellings of more than four units, counts an association's adjoining lots as one for buffer purposes, and caps a condominium's residential dock at four boats.
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A $30,220 verdict carried $198,000 in fees against an Ohio condo board
In Rosen v. Cobblestone Lane the owner lost five of six claims and was still the prevailing party — and the Supreme Court of Ohio declined to review it on September 15, 2026 over two dissents.
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A Point Pleasant Beach petition against the reserve law has 2,467 signatures
A homeowner petition started in September 2024 asks the Legislature to revise the definition, process and timing of New Jersey's condominium reserve requirements while keeping the safety protections.
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New Hampshire still has not adopted UCIOA, and nothing proposes that it should
The Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act has never been enacted in New Hampshire, no 2027 bill request references it, and a widely circulating article describing a UCIOA-modeled New Hampshire overhaul is from 2015.
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HB 1714 passed the House and died in the Senate, and it was not an HOA bill
The Make Mississippi Resilient and Strong Act, creating a Mississippi Windstorm Mitigation Association, cleared the House on February 5 and died in Senate committee on March 3, 2026. It was the only near-miss of the session on coastal resilience.
Read the full updateYour master policy may now carry a $50,000 per-unit deductible — and your HO-6 has to cover it
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac replaced the 5 percent per-unit master-policy deductible test with a flat $50,000 ceiling, and required each owner's unit policy to carry a limit equal to that deductible.
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A bill would stop counting non-voters as no
HB 2655 would change the threshold for amending a Pennsylvania declaration from 67% of votes allocated to 67% of votes collected — removing the apathy problem that makes many declarations effectively unamendable.
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Montana studied property-manager licensing — and community managers were not on the list
House Joint Resolution 55 sent property management licensing to interim study; the committee briefing describes a licence built entirely around landlord-tenant duties, with community association management absent from it.
Read the full updateThe fence that cannot go in the drainage easement, and the pond that is now a covenant
Edmond and Midwest City both convert drainage obligations into recorded covenants running with the land — and Edmond's code names the fences, pools and driveways that may not obstruct a platted drainage easement.
Read the full updateOregon declarant rights transfer one way only, court holds
Eastside Bend v. Calaveras II is the Court of Appeals' first interpretation of several Planned Community Act provisions: ORS 94.623 is the exclusive route for transferring special declarant rights, and Oregon has no such thing as a joint declarant.
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Nevada's HOA task force has met four times and voted out nothing
Reconstituted in November 2025 to recommend legislation to the Governor, the state's common-interest communities task force has held meetings in December, February, April and July — and taken no action on its central proposal.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota passed two seller-disclosure laws the same day and only one lets a buyer walk
SB 2204's radon disclosure and SB 2229's association disclosure both took effect August 1, 2025 in chapter 47-10 — but only one creates a right to rescind.
Read the full updateFor the first time, New York City co-op boards are on a statutory clock to decide a purchase application
Local Law 58 of 2026 took effect July 28, 2026 after the City Council overrode a mayoral veto. Fifteen days to acknowledge receipt, forty-five to decide, and HPD enforces at OATH.
Read the full updateNew Jersey court enforces an arbitration award of 45 parking spaces, indefinitely
In Hudson River Associates v. The Promenade at Edgewater Condominium Association the Appellate Division affirmed confirmation of an award requiring a developer to maintain 45 replacement parking spaces for a master association.
Read the full updateAn overstated collection letter put an association outside its own insurance
The Tenth Circuit held that knowledge-of-falsity exclusions defeated both defence and indemnity coverage for an owners association whose board circulated a collection letter members knew overstated the debt.
Read the full updateOn antennas, the burden is on your board, not the owner
The FCC's OTARD rule puts the burden of proving a restriction lawful on the association, requires enforcement to stop while a proceeding is pending, and since 2021 protects transmitting relay hubs.
Read the full updateThe NFIP deadline moved to December 11 — FEMA's own page still says September 30
A continuing resolution reauthorized the National Flood Insurance Program through December 11, 2026, the 36th short-term extension since 2017, while FEMA's reauthorization page continues to show the superseded September 30 date.
Read the full updateFour more Oklahoma bills reached your gate, your mailbox and your rentals. All died
Measures to force gated communities to admit process servers, ban cluster mailboxes in new neighborhoods, require every co-owner's consent before a short-term listing, and let hosts demand guest ID all failed in 2025 or 2026.
Read the full updateA complaint line is your only regulator
Pennsylvania’s answer to “who regulates my HOA” is a consumer-protection complaint route created by Act 17 of 2018, triggered by records and meeting failures and available only to an owner in good standing who has exhausted internal dispute resolution.
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