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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The clothesline bill has waited sixteen months
HB 67 would bar Pennsylvania associations from unreasonably prohibiting outdoor clothes-drying. It passed the House 128-75 in May 2025 and has sat in a Senate committee ever since, with the session ending 30 November.
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Oklahoma put a 180-day clock on every HOA board, and almost none of them know
HB 2171 took effect November 1, 2025: any member can demand removal of an unlawful restriction, the board has 90 days to decide and 90 more to record the amendment, and no member vote is required or permitted to stop it.
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New Mexico's first elevator code makes your association the regulated party
A new NMAC Chapter 14.15 took effect September 12, 2025, and the Construction Industries Division required every commercial conveyance in New Mexico to be registered by January 1, 2026. The permit exemption covers single-family dwellings only.
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Oregon repealed its wildfire map and voided every hazard rating
Senate Bill 83 took effect on signing in July 2025, repealing seven statutes, nulling every wildfire hazard zone assignment, and making the R327 building standards a local option for new construction only.
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Billings now requires a mandatory-membership HOA with lien authority to own open space
The 2026 Billings subdivision regulations, adopted by Ordinance 26-5931 on May 26, 2026, require compulsory HOA membership and lien authority for association-owned open space, and let the city assess step-in maintenance costs as a lien on every lot.
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A New York HOA banned front-yard ice rinks through its architectural guidelines. A court voided the rule and the fines.
Because the declaration required a 67% owner vote to add a use restriction, a board amendment to the architectural guidelines was unauthorized — and an unauthorized rule gets no business judgment rule protection.
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Manchester rewrote its zoning for the first time since 2001
The Manchester Land Use Code, approved 11-2-1 on December 16, 2025 and effective March 1, 2026, consolidates zoning, subdivision and site plan regulations into one document — the city's fourth zoning ordinance since 1927.
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In Summit County the county maintains your basin, and bills every lot forever
Assessed subdivisions in Summit County carry a permanent drainage maintenance assessment on the tax duplicate, statutorily presumed at 20% of the original construction cost — and many boards budget reserves for work their members already pay for.
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New Jersey will require sellers to disclose a dam — including its hazard classification
P.L.2026, c.69 adds a Disclosure of Dam Ownership section to New Jersey's property condition disclosure statement. It applies 90 days after Consumer Affairs publishes the revised form — a date that does not yet exist.
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Mississippi HOAs show up in the statehouse as grant applicants, not as regulated entities
Two 2026 appropriation bills would have sent Hinds County state money to buy security cameras for homeowners associations. Both died at the February 25 deadline, and they are the only bills in which Mississippi HOAs appeared as beneficiaries rather than subjects.
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Rhode Island's reserve-study mandate passed the Senate 37-0 and then died
S 2692 Substitute A would have required a conditions survey of every condominium twenty years or older, a reserve study every five years, and reserves funded at 15% of the monthly assessment by January 1, 2027. It cleared the Senate unanimously and was never scheduled in the House.
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North Dakota condo elevators hit their first inspection deadline this August
SB 2336 requires every association-owned elevator, chairlift, platform lift and dumbwaiter to be registered and to carry an annually renewed certificate of operation, with witnessed acceptance tests phasing in from August 1, 2026.
Read the full updateNew Mexico counts the homeowners its insurers dropped. It counts no associations at all.
Individual homeowner non-renewals are published and rising. Master-policy non-renewal, premium and availability figures for community associations are not collected anywhere in New Mexico.
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Nevada signed one HOA bill and vetoed another on the same day — the veto explains why
On June 5, 2025 Governor Lombardo approved SB 201, protecting religious and cultural displays in common-interest communities, and vetoed AB 185, which would have barred HOAs from prohibiting licensed child care.
Read the full updateBoth Oklahoma bills to curb investor ownership of houses died
HB 1064 would have barred hedge funds from owning single-family homes and SB 2082 would have capped institutional investors at 25; neither reached a floor vote before sine die.
Read the full updateAn association appealed too early and lost a year
Academy House Condominium Association appealed its assessment-foreclosure decision before the trial court had ruled on its own post-trial motion. The Commonwealth Court quashed the appeal as premature, vacated the judgment and sent the case back.
Read the full updateOregon condo boards got the fire-hardening rule without the clock
SB 1551 put its deemed-approval machinery in the Planned Community Act only, leaving condominium owners covered by the covenant override but with no 90-day deadline behind it.
Read the full updateThe condominium registration exemption is now 25 units, by statute
Chapter 245, effective July 2, 2026, raised RSA 356-B:49's registration exemption to 25 units — the number the Attorney General's own rule has used since 2019 — and abbreviated registrations were repealed.
Read the full updateA New York bill would stop HOAs forcing pesticides on your lawn — and it got a bipartisan committee vote
S7432 cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee 14-2 with three reservations, reached third reading, then was parked in Rules on June 5, 2026. The opt-out, not the ban, is the disruptive half.
Read the full updateWhitefish is using scenic resources to blunt a state 60-foot height allowance
After adopting Vision Whitefish 2045 in April 2026 and new zoning in May, Whitefish delayed its 60-foot allowance to October 1, 2026 and its planning commission moved in August to designate view corridors as scenic resources.
Read the full updateColumbus legalised backyard ADUs by right, and never mentioned covenants
Ordinance 2526-2025 allows an accessory dwelling unit by right on residential lots across Columbus with no added parking requirement, and the 41-page enrolled exhibit does not contain the words deed restriction, covenant or homeowner.
Read the full updateNew Mexico bans HOA covenants that block child care homes
Section 4 of a 2026 child care bill amended the Homeowner Association Act so an association may not enforce any restriction that effectively prohibits the use of a lot as a child care home.
Read the full updateNew Jersey bill would limit condo reserve rules to buildings three stories or taller
A318 and S146 would narrow the 2023 structural-integrity law to buildings of three stories or more and double the reserve catch-up window from ten years to twenty. Neither has moved since January.
Read the full updateThe 15% reserve rule everyone is quoting is not in force. Your budget meeting is where it lands
Fannie Mae's Selling Guide still requires 10% of the budget in replacement reserves today; the 15% minimum attaches to loan applications dated on or after January 4, 2027 — the budget boards adopt this autumn.
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