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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New Mexico cities can now bill your association for rain
SB 7 lets any municipality create a storm water utility and charge each person owning or controlling real property. There is no exemption for community associations and no credit for the drainage they already maintain.
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New York City’s gas piping rules now charge an all-electric building $480 to say it has no gas
Local Law 142 of 2025 and amendments to 1 RCNY § 103-10 added filing fees, a two-day advance notice requirement, and a per-cycle re-filing duty for buildings that no longer receive gas service.
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A bill would let HUD insure the loan that pays your special assessment
H.R. 9569, introduced June 30, 2026 and referred to House Financial Services, would authorize FHA insurance for condominium association repair loans and for unit-owner loans taken out to pay special assessments.
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New Jersey court upholds one-space-per-unit parking and clarifies mandatory ADR
In Dands v. Madrid Condominium Association the Appellate Division affirmed summary judgment on a demand for a second parking space and rejected an ADR-denial claim, holding the owner had refused ADR himself.
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The bill letting Mississippi subdivisions amend their covenants died twice, then nobody refiled it
HB 1155 in 2023 and SB 2481 in 2025 would each have let a majority of owners in a platted subdivision create or amend covenants by petition and chancery decree. Both died, and no version was filed at all in 2026.
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A fifty thousand dollar deductible ceiling
Since 1 July 2026 a condominium master policy with a per-unit deductible above $50,000 makes the units unfinanceable — and where a per-unit deductible exists, every mortgaged owner’s individual policy must now cover the same perils.
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North Dakota gave manufactured-home residents the rulebook it denied HOA owners
SB 2385 caps late fees at ten percent, requires ninety days' notice of a rent increase, gives residents three months to comply with new park rules, and lets a court refuse an eviction where the owner broke the statute.
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Three bills to rein in Oklahoma insurance rates never left committee
Senate Democratic Leader Julia Kirt filed measures to cap insurer profits, require advance justification of rate increases and ban credit-based rating; two failed to advance on February 20, 2026.
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An Ohio court can order an owner to let the contractors in
Three appeals in the Ragouzis litigation uphold a preliminary injunction giving a condominium association standing access on 24 hours' notice — plus a no-contact condition and contempt enforcement.
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Nevada quietly let HOA master policies stop covering the units for wildfire
AB 376 added NRS 116.3113(3), effective July 1, 2025, disapplying the walls-in requirement for wildfire where the association's policy coordinates with or subrogates owners' individual policies.
Read the full updateNew Mexico licenses barbers and home inspectors. Not the person holding your HOA's reserves.
A full-text search of the Real Estate Commission's rulebook returns no reference to community associations, and none of the Regulation and Licensing Department's 28 boards licenses association managers.
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Montana mobile home tenant unions won recognition and a 3 percent rent cap
Residents of two Missoula-area mobile home parks won formal recognition, two-year lease options and a reported 3 percent cap on future rent increases — concessions that come from a lease, because Montana has no rent-cap statute.
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An Oregon HOA acted honestly and still lost the garage case
In Santoro v. Eagle Crest, the Court of Appeals held that an architectural committee's good-faith duty is measured objectively — and that design review cannot be used to make impossible a use the CC&Rs themselves contemplate.
Read the full updateA New Jersey condo association got a zoning ordinance invalidated over a newspaper notice
The Appellate Division invalidated Guttenberg's R-5 ordinance because the published notice carried no summary of its main provisions, and voided the site plan approval a developer had obtained under it.
Read the full updateYour master policy deductible is now $250,000. Who pays it is genuinely unsettled.
New York boards are asking whether the owner who caused the water damage should pay the deductible instead of the whole building. There is no New York statute and no case law on the point.
Read the full updateRochester revalued, and condominium assessments rose 94 percent
A Rochester revaluation produced average increases of 208 percent for manufactured homes and 94 percent for condominiums against 73 percent for single-family houses, on private streets the city does not plow.
Read the full updateAlbuquerque's zoning code says it out loud: your covenants are your problem
The Integrated Development Ordinance states the City has no obligation to enforce a private covenant — and separately bars subdivision approval on land whose covenants prohibit solar collectors.
Read the full updateOklahoma's rural broadband relay beats your no-antennas covenant
The FCC's over-the-air reception device rule reaches transmitting fixed-wireless hub and relay antennas, and puts the burden of proof on the association trying to enforce the restriction.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota does not license the person running your association
Chapter 43-23, the Real Estate Commission's own credential list and all of Administrative Code title 70 contain no community association manager licence — and the broker definition explains why.
Read the full updateOhio's home insurance market is softening, not collapsing
Ohio homeowners combined ratios went from 115% in 2023 to 74% in 2025, surplus lines hold 0.1% of the market and Nationwide cut rates 18% in May — which makes most national coverage of Ohio insurance stress wrong.
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Two Rhode Island deadlines land on September 30
The National Flood Insurance Program's authorization expires September 30, 2026, and Rhode Island's House short-term rental commission must report by the same date — with no public evidence it has met this year.
Read the full updateYour township can count your basin without asking
Pennsylvania DEP guidance confirms a municipality may count a privately-owned stormwater facility toward its own permit obligation with no agreement in place — and that the facility must then be inspected and maintained to its operation plan.
Read the full updateMississippi's condominium law is optional, and the election can be revoked
Section 89-9-9 applies the Mississippi Condominium Law only to property whose owner recorded a plan and a certificate of consent — and that plan may be amended or revoked by a later recorded instrument signed by the owner and all security-interest holders.
Read the full updateThe flood insurance program expires in 15 days
NFIP authorization runs to September 30, 2026. It has already lapsed twice in the past year — once for 43 days — and an Oregon association with an October renewal is in the exposed population.
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