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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Rhode Island's $25 resale certificate update fee died in committee
H 7411 and S 2702 would have capped at $25 the fee for updating a resale certificate already issued. Both were held for further study and died, leaving the $125 cap, the ten-day deadline and the $100-to-$500 civil penalty unchanged.
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Oregon condo reserves must hit 15% for January loan applications
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raise the minimum reserve allocation from 10% to 15% of annual budgeted assessment income for applications received on or after January 4, 2027.
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New Jersey bill would cap HOA dues increases at 10 percent, with personal liability
A3314 would bar association boards from raising dues more than 10 percent in a 12-month period, make directors jointly and severally liable, and add a $1,000 penalty per violation payable to the homeowner who sues.
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Montana lien costs rose on October 1 — recording fees up 2.5x, foreclosure fee up fivefold
House Bill 192 raised county recording from $8 a page to $20 for the first page plus $10 per additional page, and Senate Bill 103 raised the fee for issuing an execution or order of sale on a lien foreclosure from $5 to $25, both effective October 1, 2025.
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Tulsa allows backyard units by right. Your covenant still does not
Tulsa amended its accessory dwelling unit rules in September 2025 and permits ADUs by right in many districts; Owasso permits them in every residential district and says plainly that it does not enforce private covenants.
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Fargo will special-assess your subdivision for 100 percent of its own streetscape
The city's 2026 Infrastructure Funding Policy, approved November 24, 2025, assesses street amenities beyond the standard paving package at 100 percent — and raises every cap five percent a year.
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The only New Mexico Attorney General opinion on HOAs is about solar panels
AG Opinion 11-02 reads Section 3-18-32 to let an association regulate solar collectors but not price them out of reach. A survey of 2025 and 2026 opinions identified none concerning an association.
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Columbus's rental registry opens October 1, and it reaches leased condo units
New Columbus Chapter 4515 requires every leased residential unit to register between October 1 and December 31, 2026, with no exemption for condominiums — and it sweeps association-controlled common areas into the registered property.
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Nevada's mandatory HOA mediation requirement is not jurisdictional, Supreme Court holds
Kosor v. Southern Highlands holds that NRS 38.310's pre-suit ADR requirement is a claim-processing rule that must be raised in time — and cannot be used three years later to void a judgment.
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A Senate committee demanded six years of records from a New Hampshire park owner
Sen. Maggie Hassan's July 29, 2026 Joint Economic Committee letter to Sado Capital seeks ownership structures, rent-setting policies, resident complaints and settlement agreements going back to January 2020.
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Mississippi's new home-hardening grants fund roofs. Condo roofs are common elements
SB 2409, the Strengthen Mississippi Homes Act, took effect July 1, 2026 with $10,000 FORTIFIED roof grants for single-family primary residences. No source we found addresses whether a condominium association — which owns its roof in common — can access it.
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A New York condominium won at trial and lost the case — it had sued in its own name
Most New York condominiums are unincorporated associations with no separate legal existence. A proceeding must be brought by the president or treasurer. The Appellate Term dismissed a case that was not.
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Master policy lines stayed in the filing net
Pennsylvania deregulated most property and casualty lines from rate and form filing in April 2026 — but commercial property, businessowners and commercial general liability, which is what an association master policy is written on, all stayed inside the regime.
Read the full updateNew Jersey's new disparate-impact rules reach association screening policies
The Division on Civil Rights adopted rules at N.J.A.C. 13:16 requiring that neutral policies causing disproportionate harm serve a legitimate purpose with no less discriminatory alternative. Associations are housing providers under the LAD.
Read the full updateOregon's oldest CC&Rs lose their density shield in 2027
House Bill 2138 deletes the January 1, 2020 cutoff from ORS 94.776, so a declaration recorded in 1978 stops being outside the statute — but the text amendment does not become operative until January 1, 2027.
Read the full updateSanta Fe makes rental applicants swear your covenants allow it — then mails your HOA the permit
Santa Fe's short-term rental ordinance requires an applicant affirmation that no private covenant prohibits the use, mandates notice to the homeowners association within ten days, and says covenants may prohibit the rental outright.
Read the full updateOklahoma's roof grant became permanent — and the statute opens a door the form closes
HB 3796 removed the Strengthen Oklahoma Homes sunset and the statute expressly authorizes grants to nonprofit entities, but the program's published eligibility runs through the homestead exemption, which an association does not have.
Read the full updateMontana subdivision wells now need a Notice of Intent and a $400 fee
New DNRC water-right rules add a Notice of Intent to Appropriate Groundwater, Form 602I, with a $400 filing fee — changing the exempt-well path that Montana subdivisions and associations outside municipal service rely on.
Read the full updateRhode Island's new hurricane-hardening grants exclude condominiums by name
Chapter 294 of the 2026 Public Laws creates the “Strengthen Rhody Homes” retrofit grant programme and makes the grant available only to an owner-occupied single-family primary residence that “cannot be a condominium or mobile home.”
Read the full updateFlood insurance authority expires September 30, and it already lapsed once this cycle
The National Flood Insurance Program's authorization runs to 11:59 p.m. on September 30, 2026. A lapse stops FEMA selling and renewing policies — as it did from October 1 to mid-November 2025.
Read the full updateCleveland's 10% cap counts your whole condominium as one denominator
Cleveland's new short-term rental density limit applies per block or per multi-unit building, which makes a condominium's unit count the divisor — and the variance test asks whether a majority of residents support the application.
Read the full updateLimited Review is gone for New Hampshire condo loans
Since August 3, 2026 established condominium projects can no longer be financed through Limited Review, sending roughly 40 percent of project reviews into Full Review — where reserves, insurance and litigation all get examined.
Read the full updateIf your board missed the 2026 Local Law 97 deadline, DOB’s own notice describes a zero-penalty way out
Every 2026 emissions-reporting date has passed and penalties accrue at $0.50 per square foot per month. But a Notice of Deficiency for failure to file can be resolved at zero penalty within 60 days.
Read the full updateNew Jersey adopted the 2024 model codes — what associations pull permits under now
Effective August 17, 2026, New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code adopts the 2024 I-Codes and the 2023 NEC. A separate October 2025 adoption changed townhouse fire-sprinkler requirements.
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