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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North Dakota's new disclosure safe harbor points at the definitions subsection
N.D.C.C. § 47-10-02.3(4) protects a seller for information disclosed “under subsection 1” — but subsection 1 is the definitions, and the disclosures are made under subsection 2.
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A 40-unit Brooklyn co-op allegedly lost $708,216.61 over six years to its own board president
The Brooklyn District Attorney indicted the former board president of a 40-unit Brooklyn Heights building for second-degree grand larceny. The allegations are the clearest available case for basic internal controls.
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The reserve study your New Mexico association just paid for may no longer count
Since August 3, 2026 a lender may not rely on a reserve study funded on the baseline method, and the budget must carry the study's highest recommended allocation. Studies commissioned earlier this year may not qualify.
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Montana panel would replace the 1965 condo act — vote set for September 17
A legislative committee draft would put every Montana association under a new Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act; the Local Government Interim Committee takes executive action on it September 17, 2026.
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Nevada would more than triple the training a temporary HOA manager needs
R091-25 would raise the instruction required to convert a temporary community-manager certificate to a full one from 18 hours to 60, and would write remote teaching into the administrative code for the first time.
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New Jersey bills would stop HOAs charging a transfer fee for a living trust
A2832 and S791 would provide that placing a unit, or co-op shares and a proprietary lease, into a living revocable trust is not a title transfer for association fee purposes — leaving only actual administrative costs recoverable.
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A silent lender now counts as a yes in Rhode Island condominium votes
Section 34-36.1-2.19(b), added June 24, 2025, deems a unit mortgagee to have approved an action if it does not send a written denial within sixty-five days of a properly mailed request — and it reaches pre-1982 condominiums.
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Mississippi appeals court: a one-member architectural committee is no committee
In Marnecheck v. Val's Property Development, the Court of Appeals held that an ACC reduced to a single member could not validly act, that the covenants' 30-day silence clause deemed the owners' plans approved, and reversed a $220,939 attorney-fee award and a demolition order.
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Buying at an Ohio sheriff's sale does not erase the deed restrictions
Hitchcock v. Delta Trust kills two common owner defences — foreclosure wiped the covenants, and your bylaws were never recorded — while making the association prove the declaration sits in the buyer's chain of title.
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A buried propane tank cost an Oklahoma owner the case, the removal and the fees
An owner installed a 500-gallon propane tank after the association denied permission; the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed summary judgment for the association, the removal order and the fee award.
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The stormwater permit that expired in 2023
Pennsylvania’s municipal stormwater general permit expired in March 2023 and is still running on administrative extension. DEP now says it will not publish the replacement during 2026, and no new coverage can be authorised in the meantime.
Read the full updateA Taos HOA let its own lawsuit go quiet, lost it, and could not appeal its way back
An association's suit was dismissed for failure to prosecute without a hearing after its counsel did not respond. It missed the appeal deadline on both the dismissal and the reconsideration, and could not use Rule 1-060(B) as a substitute.
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When your condominium was created decides whether it can replace its septic
New Hampshire readopted its subdivision and septic rules effective February 1, 2026, keeping carve-outs that turn a condominium's eligibility for septic approval on whether it was created before 1971, between 1971 and 1989, or later.
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A one-line fix restored Oregon's portable cooling device rule
ORS 94.779(6) voids a planned-community ban on portable cooling devices, but pointed at the wrong statute for the definition until House Bill 2464 corrected the citation.
Read the full updateNew York doubled the offering-plan filing fee cap and put a $750 floor on every amendment
Effective November 5, 2025, the Attorney General’s maximum offering-plan filing fee went from $30,000 to $60,000, and amendments, no-action applications and cooperative policy statements now cost $750 each.
Read the full updateVoting on termination can make a condominium project unfinanceable before anything happens
Since September 30, 2025 a project that is terminating, deconverting or in insolvency proceedings is ineligible — and so is one that “has voted or is in the process of voting” on it.
Read the full updateNew Jersey fines drivers for blocking EV charging spaces — private lots unresolved
P.L.2025, c.155 makes it a parking violation to occupy a marked EV charging space with a non-electric vehicle or an electric one that is not actively charging. Whether it reaches an association's private lot is not settled by the text.
Read the full updateMontana waived the HOA annual report fee. The filing still dissolves you if you miss it
The Secretary of State has waived the annual report filing fee for Montana businesses for a fourth consecutive year, but the April 15 filing itself remains mandatory and failure to file by December 1 is grounds for involuntary dissolution.
Read the full updateAn Angel Fire HOA won on the homeowner's own deposition answers
The Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for an association that made its case using the homeowner's interrogatory answers and deposition testimony. Photographs attached to a complaint are not summary-judgment evidence.
Read the full updateYour roofer's assignment of benefits is void in Oklahoma, and has been since November
36 O.S. § 1230(B), effective November 1, 2025, makes any post-loss assignment of property insurance benefits null and void — and the ban expressly reaches commercial property policies, which is what an association master policy is.
Read the full updateNobody in Ohio licenses the person managing your association
Ohio has no community association manager licence, registration, exam or bond. The real estate licence triggers only on renting buildings "to the public as tenants" — which is not what an HOA or condo manager does.
Read the full updateNevada resale packages must now carry proof of the association's insurance
Since July 1, 2026, NRS 116.4109(1)(g) requires a resale package to include proof of the insurance policies an association must carry under NRS 116.3113 — arriving a year after the Legislature let master wildfire coverage stop at the common elements.
Read the full updateA bill would ban requiring turf grass
HB 1878 would stop Pennsylvania covenants from prohibiting native conservation landscaping, and would deem unreasonable any restriction requiring turf grass or confining native planting to the back of a property.
Read the full updateNHDES: small water systems run by associations will be hit hardest by PFAS limits
New Hampshire has drafted PFAS drinking-water rules and is deliberately holding them unfinalized while federal standards settle — and the state's own water official says homeowner-association systems are the exposed class.
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