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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Nevada would delete “baseline funding” from HOA reserve studies
R091-25 would strike baseline funding from the permitted reserve objectives, redefine adequately funded reserves so the projected balance may never reach zero, and restart the five-year study clock on adoption rather than inspection.
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A motocross course is not a “residential” use, Montana's high court holds
In Larsen v. Sayers, 2025 MT 24, the Montana Supreme Court reversed a bench-trial loss and held a freestyle motocross course breaches a residential-and-agricultural-purposes covenant, remanding to award the enforcing neighbours their fees.
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The bill to finish Rhode Island's condo deductible rules died in the House
S 2896 Substitute A would have made the unit owner's policy primary for the master-policy deductible gap, allocated losses unit by unit, and let boards direct insurance proceeds to repairs. It passed the Senate 37-0 and was never scheduled in House Corporations.
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Your North Dakota association has nothing to file with FinCEN, permanently
FinCEN's final rule, effective August 14, 2026, makes the exemption for domestic entities permanent — and names homeowners associations in explaining why no separate carve-out was needed.
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Ocean County seniors told commissioners the reserve law was built for high-rises
An advocate told the Ocean County Board of Commissioners in October 2025 that senior communities were seeing $300 to $400 monthly increases under New Jersey's reserve statute, seven months before the story reached the daily papers.
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Rent your condo by the night in Bernalillo County and the Assessor now calls it a business
About 1,000 Bernalillo County properties were reclassified from residential to non-residential as short-term rentals after an analysis completed in 2025. The Protest Board sided with the Assessor in 80 percent of protests.
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Four Lake Sunapee towns now make you pump the septic on a clock
New London's ordinance took effect January 1, 2026 requiring every septic system to be pumped and inspected at least every three years, and Newbury became the fourth Lake Sunapee watershed town to adopt one.
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The annual report that dissolves you in 2027
Incorporated Pennsylvania associations have owed a free annual report to the Department of State since January 2025, and from the 2027 cycle a non-filer faces administrative dissolution six months after the due date.
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Ohio may put ADUs in the residential building code, and comments closed today
A proposed new Section 330 of the Residential Code of Ohio would permit an accessory dwelling unit inside an existing single-family house or townhouse without a change of occupancy.
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Four New York condo board members were sued personally. Neither the business judgment rule nor the exculpatory bylaw got them out.
The First Department reinstated direct tort claims against individual board members on June 18, 2026, where an animus-driven campaign of retaliation was pleaded non-conclusorily.
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Your roofer gets a new rulebook in January, and the association is the client now
HB 3800 rewrites the Oklahoma Roofing Contractor Registration Act effective January 1, 2027 — and because assignments of benefits are void, the association is the contracting and claiming party.
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An Oregon owner moved a recorded easement by saying nothing
In Roxy Ann Heights v. Wilson, the Court of Appeals held that a servient owner who watches substantial association work proceed without objecting has implicitly agreed to relocate the easement.
Read the full updateMontana insurers must now disclose a property's wildfire risk score on request
House Bill 533, Chapter 485 of the 2025 Laws, requires an admitted insurer using a wildfire risk score to disclose the score, the model's range, who built it, when, and the key adverse factors — within 30 days of a request.
Read the full updateAlbuquerque pays $3 a square foot to tear out your lawn. Does your declaration still require one?
A turf-removal rebate, an eight-hour daily spray-irrigation ban and a 10 percent cool-season grass cap all now point one way — and the water-waste ordinance binds the association for common-area irrigation.
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Mississippi's HOA director standard has no duty of care in it
Section 79-11-267 requires a director to act on a good-faith belief that he is acting in the corporation's best interests — and omits the ordinarily-prudent-person clause found in the model act. The burden of proving a violation sits on the accuser.
Read the full updateNevada commission adopts the HOA fine rule it owed since 2021 — it is not law yet
R091-25 would finally define the “imminent threat to health, safety or welfare” that lifts Nevada's $100 fine cap. The Commission adopted it on September 9, 2026; no adopted text has been filed.
Read the full updateNew Jersey rewrote manufactured-home purchase rights — and cut a PREDFDA hole
P.L.2025, c.362 replaced the homeowners association mechanism with an informal resident group, cut the approval threshold to 51 percent, stretched response windows, and exempted such sales from PREDFDA registration.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota condominium reserves must reach 15 percent by January
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raised the replacement reserve minimum from 10 percent to 15 percent of annual budgeted assessment income, for loan applications dated on or after January 4, 2027.
Read the full updateBroken Arrow capped short-term rental owners at four, and told the platforms to delist
An ordinance adopted February 17, 2026 rewrote Broken Arrow's short-term rental rules end to end — a four-licence cap per person, beneficial-ownership disclosure, certified-mail neighbour notice and a three-day platform takedown duty.
Read the full updateCondominium registration fees have not moved since 2019
New Hampshire's condominium registration rules, fees and forms are unchanged since October 2019 — $30 per unit within a $300 to $2,000 band, $200 for an exemption — and the Attorney General filed no rules at all in 2025 or 2026.
Read the full updateAn Ohio court just held you cannot ban short-term rentals by bylaw
In Rudy v. Apple Valley the Fifth District reversed a $57,386.72 judgment against three owners, holding that a rental ban must go in the recorded declaration — and that short-term renting is residential, not commercial, use.
Read the full updateNew York’s new short-term rental registry law can stop your town creating a registry — and never touches your covenant
Real Property Law Article 12-D requires counties to run STR registries and bars cities, towns and villages from creating new ones where a county does. It regulates the unit, not the association.
Read the full updateThe only solar law passed exempts your roof
Pennsylvania enacted one solar statute in the 2025-2026 session — a decommissioning-bond law for utility-scale lease sites that expressly excludes systems of two megawatts or less, which is every residential rooftop array an association ever argues about.
Read the full updateYou cannot sue your HOA's lawyers for the HOA's alleged discrimination
A New Mexico federal magistrate recommended dismissing all claims against an association's defence firm with prejudice — while the Fair Housing Act and ADA claims against the association itself over park access remain live.
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