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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Bozeman's new code stranded existing short-term rentals in its new RA district
Ordinance 2151 replaced Bozeman's entire development code effective February 1, 2026, consolidating RS, R-1 and R-2 into a new RA district where only Type 1 short-term rentals are allowed; a text amendment to fix it was still in progress.
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Open condo board meetings died in Rhode Island — and the ombudsman was never written
S 2899 Substitute A would have opened executive board meetings to owners, listed the records an association must produce, and required a financial review every five years for associations over twenty units. It passed the Senate 37-0 and died.
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FinCEN's final rule names homeowners associations, and ends the filing for good
The August 14, 2026 beneficial ownership final rule exempts all domestic entities and every U.S.-person beneficial owner. Its preamble addresses HOAs by name, and a Mississippi association incorporated under state law now has nothing to file with FinCEN.
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In New Mexico, asking your insurer a question can no longer be logged as a claim
SB 221 added a new unfair claims practice effective June 20, 2025: treating an insured's inquiry as a claim where the facts are not covered, nothing is paid and there is no deception.
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Oregon's Supreme Court heard no association case in 20 months
Across 149 opinions from January 2025 to September 2026, no Oregon Supreme Court decision construes the Planned Community Act, the Condominium Act, a declaration or a set of CC&Rs.
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New Jersey bill would let homeowners vote to dissolve their HOA
S4104 would create a statutory dissolution procedure for common interest communities: a 25 percent petition, a board vote within 60 days, a two-thirds majority, and a $100-per-week personal penalty for directors who stall.
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North Dakota's Supreme Court has not decided an association case since June 2025
A case-by-case review of every North Dakota Supreme Court opinion from 2026 ND 1 through 2026 ND 161 returns no decision on covenants, assessments, condominium law or association governance.
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New York’s Attorney General has proposed cutting sponsor control of a converting condo board from five years to two
The first proposed rewrite of the co-op and condo conversion regulations since the 2019 HSTPA would cap sponsor voting control at two years and require an owner election within 30 days of it ending.
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Ohio is not voting on property taxes this November
The campaign to abolish Ohio property taxes abandoned the 2026 ballot on June 5 and is now aimed at November 2027 — and no statewide property-tax or housing measure reaches voters this fall.
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Limited Review is gone, and your association's budget is no longer a private document
The lender review type that let a conventional condo loan skip the budget, the reserve math and the insurance review has been retired — every conventional condo loan now runs Full Review or a waiver.
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Nevada downgraded a supervising HOA manager over who signed the checks
An April 2026 Commission order found that a supervising community manager repeatedly allowed association operating-account checks to be signed by a management-company employee who was neither a board member nor an officer.
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No 2026 bill on rentals, EV charging, flags, liens or managers
An exhaustive sweep of all 1,386 bill titles in New Hampshire's 2026 session found no measure at all on short-term rentals in associations, EV charging rights, owner flag or sign displays, reserve studies, property-manager licensing, assessment liens or association foreclosure.
Read the full updateAlbuquerque now makes a neighborhood association collect signatures — and pay $1,000 if it loses
Three IDO changes raised the bar for a neighborhood association appeal: a majority petition within 660 feet for standing, $1,000 loser-pays on an approved application, and notice failures no longer a ground.
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The CROWN Act reaches the housing title too
Act 54 of 2025 wrote hair texture, protective hairstyles and religious head coverings into the definitions section of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act — the same act that governs housing discrimination by associations and their agents.
Read the full update“Should take into consideration views” is binding — and a $417,000 HOA fee award fell with it
In Waddell v. Studer, 2025 MT 269, the Montana Supreme Court held a permissive-sounding architectural covenant requires genuine good-faith consideration of neighbouring impacts, reversed summary judgment, and vacated $417,608 in attorney fees.
Read the full updateThe NJ association open-meetings rule DCA still cites was repealed in 2020
N.J.A.C. 5:20 was repealed effective May 18, 2020 and its open-meeting requirements moved to N.J.A.C. 5:26-8.12 — but the Department of Community Affairs' own homeowner-facing pages still cite the repealed chapter.
Read the full updateA mislabelled lis pendens cost $265,000, at $5,000 a lot
Calaveras II v. Eastside Bend holds that statutory damages for an invalid claim of encumbrance run per individually titled lot, not per filing — the sharpest new financial risk in Oregon association practice.
Read the full updateEvery big number in Ohio HOA litigation this year is a fee number
Across the 2025-2026 Ohio appellate record the damages are modest and the attorney fees are not — R.C. 5311.19(A), 5312.11(A)(3) and 5312.13 are doing more work than the covenants themselves.
Read the full updateNew York considered a co-op and condo ombudsperson funded by $6 per unit a year. Its own memo explains why.
A10286 would create a DHCR ombudsperson programme with election monitoring and mediation, paid for by a new Tax Law fee on every residential unit. It died in committee; CAI opposed it.
Read the full updateUnlawfully occupying a residential dwelling is now a felony in North Dakota
HB 1305 added N.D.C.C. § 12.1-22-03(2), making unlawful occupation of a residential dwelling a class C felony on a first offence, and broadened the definition of “dwelling” that goes with it.
Read the full updateTwo Oklahoma cities where an association can actually stop a short-term rental
Yukon requires a council-approved special use permit with a 600-foot abstractor notice list and a public hearing; Stillwater turns a single written objection within 30 days into a planning commission hearing.
Read the full updateNew Mexico's insurance regulator says it plainly: your condo fees do not insure your unit
OSI's consumer guidance sets out what a master policy covers, why every unit owner needs an HO-6, and why loss assessment coverage is the provision that responds when a board levies after an underpaid claim.
Read the full updateThree Mississippi fair housing bills expressly reached condo interests. All three died the same day
HB 89, SB 2421 and SB 2685 would each have created a Mississippi Fair Housing Act defining covered real property to include an interest in a real estate cooperative or condominium. All three died in committee on February 3, 2026.
Read the full updateSolar, signs, flags, clotheslines: the rights Rhode Island never gave association members
Rhode Island has no solar-access statute against an association, no political-sign protection, no right to charge an EV, no clothesline law, and no state flag-display statute — the flag protection people cite is federal.
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