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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No HOA bill among Montana's 331 requested 2027 drafts — but two say “architectural review”
The Legislature's published 2027 bill draft request list contains no homeowners association, covenant or condominium entry; the closest are two requests to revise architectural review laws, and committee bills would not appear on the list at all.
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New Jersey's mansion tax moved to the seller, and it names co-op units
P.L.2025, c.69 shifted the additional realty transfer fee from buyer to seller and made it graduated up to 3.5 percent, with cooperative units expressly included in the covered classes.
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Nevada protects HOA solar panels but still gives owners no EV charging right
SB 152 would have let owners install electric-vehicle charging in exclusive-use and common areas without an association vote. It died in the 2025 session, leaving Nevada with a detailed solar statute and nothing for chargers.
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New Mexico will fund starter homes smaller than many HOA covenants allow
The New Homes for New Mexico Program caps a starter home at 1,800 square feet on a lot of 5,000 square feet — dimensions that many older New Mexico minimum-size covenants exclude.
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New York legalized plug-in balcony solar and said nothing about condo boards
The SUNNY Act passed both houses on May 28, 2026. A word-by-word search of the bill finds no reference to a condominium, cooperative, homeowners association, landlord or lease.
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$293 million has bought twenty New Hampshire communities since 2016
Out-of-state investors have acquired 20 New Hampshire manufactured home communities holding more than 3,800 homes, while manufactured home sale prices rose 301 percent over the decade — against 128 percent for condominiums.
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A bill making HOA board members live in the neighborhood died one floor vote short
HB 2588 would have required Oklahoma board members to own and physically reside in the development for at least ten months a year, with automatic resignation on failure; it passed the House 70-19 and expired on the Senate General Order.
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Ohio's only HOA governing-document bill has sat still for 16 months
HB 16 would bar associations from banning political yard signs in the 30 days before an election and set a 12-by-18-inch floor — three hearings in spring 2025 and nothing since.
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North Dakota's new receivership act starts where a condominium building does
SB 2122 enacted the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act, and its residential carve-out stops at four dwelling units — so a five-unit condominium building is fully inside it.
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Act 29 puts your rented unit on a county list
From 18 September 2026 every Pennsylvania property that is not owner-occupied — including rented condo units and association-owned parcels — must register a reachable contact with the county within 30 days of purchase, on pain of a $500 fine.
Read the full updateLas Cruces short-term rentals had six months to register. Thirty-five did.
A Las Cruces registration ordinance took effect January 1, 2026 with enforcement from July 1, 2026 and a 500-foot neighbour notice requirement. Reporting put full compliance at about 35 of an estimated 725 rentals.
Read the full updateNew Jersey bill would stop condo associations charging deductibles to owners
S3561 would amend the Condominium Act to bar an association from passing an insurance deductible to a unit owner or group of owners — just as Fannie Mae's new $50,000 deductible cap pushes premiums the other way.
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Oregon has no HOA regulator, and nobody asked for one
Across 3,770 bills in two sessions and 1,726 interim committee agenda items, no Oregon measure proposed licensing community association managers or creating an HOA ombudsman.
Read the full updateMontana now defines covenant “enforcement action” as two years of consistent enforcement
House Bill 147, Chapter 423 of the 2025 Laws, added a statutory definition to section 70-17-210 requiring that a covenant be equally and consistently enforced on all subject properties over at least two years.
Read the full updateA dues-increase fight in Oklahoma is a derivative action, not a lawsuit
Three members who sued over a $25 monthly dues increase used to subsidize a golf course lost because they never made a pre-suit demand on the board — their case was derivative in substance.
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A Rhode Island condo budget passes even if nobody shows up
Section 34-36.1-3.03(c) ratifies a proposed budget unless a majority of ALL unit owners vote to reject it, “whether or not a quorum is present” — and a successful rejection continues last year's budget rather than forcing a new one.
Read the full updateNew York bill on religious items at the door passed 141–0 and names HOAs, condos and co-ops
A9195-A would bar a condo board, co-op board or homeowners association from prohibiting religious items on an entry door or doorframe, leaving only four grounds to refuse.
Read the full updateNine housing bills died, and one passed both chambers before vanishing
New Hampshire's 2025 and 2026 sessions killed an ADU repeal, an ADU rewrite, a voucher set-aside, two manufactured-housing mandates and more — and HB 685 passed the House and Senate before its conference committee never filed a report.
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In Mississippi, an ambiguous covenant is construed against the person enforcing it
With no HOA statute, Mississippi covenant disputes turn on judge-made rules: the law favours free use of land, ambiguity is read against the party seeking enforcement, and clear wording is still enforced.
Read the full updateNevada doubled its arbitration threshold to $100,000 — but not for HOA covenant disputes
AB 3 raised court-annexed arbitration to $100,000 for civil actions filed on or after January 1, 2026. It does not touch NRS 38.300 to 38.360, the separate mandatory program that handles most association disputes.
Read the full updateOne paragraph in a 158-section tax bill changed what can be recorded against a New Mexico home
HB 218 added state tax lien notices to the list of instruments recordable without acknowledgment. An association's own declarations, amendments and assessment liens still require notarization.
Read the full updateSilence in the bylaws about buried pipes protects no Ohio board
In Goebel v. Colonial Lane a jury found for flooded homeowners on R.C. 5312.08 and 5312.13 even though the association's bylaws never said whether the underground stormwater system was a common element.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota's first HOA governance act died without a single vote
SB 2394 would have required reserve funds, quarterly board meetings, annual budgets and a 30-day answer to member inquiries. The Senate defeated it 46 to 0 on February 24, 2025.
Read the full updateNew Jersey court: an HOA cannot claim a unit it paid expenses on for 32 years
In Wedgewood Gardens Condominium Association v. Wedgewood Gardens Developers the Appellate Division held a master deed's building-personnel unit clause did not transfer title to the association, despite decades of payments.
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