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 York co-op amended its proprietary lease by supermajority vote. It could not take one shareholder’s roof rights.
The First Department reinstated a breach claim where the original lease required that shareholder’s express consent. Read with a second 2025 decision, the lesson is that a co-op can waive its own no-waiver clause.
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Your town must allow an ADU. Your covenant need not.
RSA 674:72 requires municipalities to permit accessory dwelling units and bars separate condominium conveyance of one, but it binds towns rather than associations — and the 2026 session declined to resolve what happens when a covenant says no.
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A resale bill would fine the association $15,000
HB 2746 would require full disclosure of infrastructure ownership and maintenance responsibility in every Pennsylvania association resale — with escalating penalties running against the association itself, not the seller.
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In Minot your detention pond obligation is a covenant the City can enforce
Minot's Land Development Ordinance makes an approved storm water management plan “a covenant running with the land,” enforceable by the City, by persons affected, or by the public generally.
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Rhode Island voids grocery-store restrictive covenants
A new § 34-4-31, effective June 18, 2026, makes a covenant restricting land from being used to sell fresh food void and unenforceable, with a narrow relocation exception and no retroactive effect.
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Montana counties must now allow ADUs by right — and private covenants still apply
Senate Bill 532, Chapter 619 of the 2025 Laws, created section 76-2-215 requiring county zoning to allow one accessory dwelling unit by right, while expressly preserving restrictive covenants on ADUs entered into between private parties.
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Oregon quietly repealed a defect settlement privilege
Old ORS 701.580(6) made unaccepted right-to-repair offers and replies inadmissible in later proceedings. House Bill 3746 deleted the subsection outright, and almost nobody noticed.
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New Jersey's only developer transition-timing bill died with no successor
A1367 would have revised when unit owners assume control from a developer. It died in January 2026 and nobody refiled it, leaving no pending bill that changes the transition trigger.
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Ohio's short-term rental preemption bill would not touch your covenant
SB 104 and HB 109 would strip cities of the power to ban an Airbnb while leaving an association's power completely intact — the word "covenant" appears nowhere in either bill.
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New Mexico has a 30-year wildfire-hardening loan — and its lien outranks your association's
The Improvement Special Assessment Act finances fire-resistance work on multifamily property of five or more units for up to 30 years, with a lien senior to everything but ad valorem taxes.
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Fifteen days to bind your flood renewal before the program's authority dies
The National Flood Insurance Program's authorization expires at 11:59 p.m. on September 30, 2026; during a lapse FEMA cannot issue or renew a condominium association's RCBAP.
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Mississippi's condo assessment lien expires in one year, and planned communities have none at all
Section 89-9-21 gives a recorded condominium assessment lien a one-year life, extendable once by recording, with no priority over earlier-recorded liens. Mississippi's lien chapter has no assessment lien for non-condominium associations.
Read the full updateNew York rewrote the neighbour-access statute your facade job depends on — first time since 1968
Chapter 601 of 2025 and Chapter 44 of 2026 overhauled RPAPL § 881. Two unanswered certified letters now count as a refusal, the board must compensate the neighbour, and the additional-insured requirement was traded away.
Read the full updatePlug-in solar was legalised with no word about condominium boards
SB 540, Chapter 262, deregulates portable solar devices up to 1,200 watts AC per meter from January 1, 2027 — and says nothing about covenants, associations or limited common area, where most of these panels would go.
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Three HOA bill drafts are already on file for Nevada's 2027 session
Senators Neal and Ohrenschall and Assemblymember Nadeem have each requested a bill draft on homeowners' associations or common-interest communities for the 84th Session. No text is public.
Read the full updateDCED regulates the home, not the park
Pennsylvania’s housing agency sets standards for manufactured homes and directs every complaint about a manufactured-home community to a consumer hotline — and two pending measures would create the regulator that does not exist.
Read the full updateLeaving one required sentence out of a lot lease is not a technicality, New Mexico holds
In the only precedential New Mexico opinion about a residential community in this period, the Court of Appeals held that omitting a mandatory Mobile Home Park Act disclosure is a non-de minimis violation with a private remedy.
Read the full updateNew Jersey's first condo structural-inspection deadline passed on January 8, 2026
Covered condominium and cooperative buildings with certificates of occupancy issued 15 or more years before January 2024 were required to complete a load-bearing inspection by January 8, 2026. The Legislature enacted no extension.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota guaranteed the right to rebuild, and said nothing about your covenants
HB 1500 overrides any zoning ordinance blocking the rebuild of a damaged nonconforming residence — but it binds municipalities only, leaving declarations and architectural review untouched.
Read the full updateMontana has no shared solar for associations — the veto was not overridden
Senate Bill 188 would have created a shared and community solar framework in Montana; it was vetoed on June 9, 2025 and the override failed on July 14, 2025, so an association cannot host or subscribe to a shared solar facility under a state program.
Read the full updateOhio's submetering bill passed both chambers and was vetoed
HB 173 would have regulated the resale of utility service and amended the landlord-obligations statute — it cleared the House and Senate in June 2026 and did not become law.
Read the full updateNew Oregon condos must be inspected for moisture twice
ORS 100.417(8) now requires an independent moisture-intrusion inspection before the end of year two and again before the end of year six, paid for from the reserve account.
Read the full updateThe Attorney General was barred from joining a homeowner's hail lawsuit
In State Farm v. Palumbo the Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a writ of prohibition against an order letting the Attorney General intervene in a private hailstorm coverage suit.
Read the full updateFrom January, a Rhode Island judgment lien needs a certified letter within ten days
New § 9-21-14, effective January 1, 2027, requires a judgment creditor who records a lien on real property to send the owner a certified letter with four specified items inside ten business days.
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