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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When a Mississippi county may spend public money fixing a private lake dam
An Attorney General opinion of May 11, 2026 sets out the conditions under Section 19-5-92.1: a minutes finding of public necessity, written notice to every affected owner, no written objection from any of them, and a county-funded culvert or bridge preserving access.
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Rhode Island moved three- and four-unit buildings into the residential code
Chapter 377 of the 2026 Public Laws puts one- to four-family dwellings under the International Residential Code and reserves the commercial International Building Code for buildings of more than four residential units.
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New Jersey's DCA says it does not oversee association reserve compliance
In its own guidance the Department of Community Affairs states it has no statutory jurisdiction over owner-controlled association reserve decisions and that owners disputing them must bring civil litigation.
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Cannon Beach would cap vacation rentals at 165, vote October 6
The city council has a proposed ordinance capping short-term rental licences below the current permit count, adding density limits and exclusion zones east of Highway 101. It returns to council on October 6, 2026.
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A New York co-op had three months to enforce its no-pit-bull rule. It waited, and the rule was gone.
The First Department held that neither the business judgment rule nor a no-waiver clause overcomes the New York City Pet Law, and that the nuisance exception turns on the animal’s conduct, not its breed.
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Albuquerque wrote EV charging into its parking rules — and it lands on new condo and townhouse projects
The Integrated Development Ordinance requires EV-capable parking in new townhouse developments over six units and installed charging stations in multi-family developments over 100 units — a common-element cost from day one.
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Reported: North Dakota's House killed SB 2405, and the Legislature has not posted the vote
SB 2405 passed the Senate 27-20 on September 3, 2026. Press reports say the House killed it the next day. The Legislature's own action history still shows no final House action.
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Your transfer fee is safe only if the money stays home
A March 2026 FHFA amendment restored the grandfather exception for private transfer fee covenants retroactively to 2012 — but an association fee escapes the restriction only where the declaration limits the proceeds to the encumbered property.
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A Montana HOA now needs permission before its agent walks onto your property
House Bill 416, Chapter 452 of the 2025 Laws, created Mont. Code Ann. § 70-16-110, requiring an association to obtain an owner's permission, propose a convenient time and specify the area before an agent enters — effective October 1, 2025.
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Your insurer has 21 days to accept or deny, and 15 to answer a letter
Ohio's unfair claims practices rule sets hard clocks an association can hold a carrier to — 15 days to acknowledge, 15 to respond to a communication, 21 to decide, and status updates every 45 days.
Read the full updateFour things your New Mexico HOA collects that are not tax-exempt
The gross receipts tax exemption for association dues is narrower than most boards assume. Non-member amenity fees, dues from non-owners, sales or leases of association property, and work billed to an individual lot all fall outside it.
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In New Hampshire, abstaining counts as a vote for the budget
RSA 356-B:40-c lets a board's proposed budget and special assessments take effect unless two-thirds of ALL unit owners reject them — not two-thirds of those voting — and the section has not been amended since 2018.
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Owners who list on Airbnb owe training by 2027
Act 31 of 2026 requires every short-term rental operator — including an individual condo owner listing one unit — to complete human-trafficking awareness training, with listing platforms obliged to verify it from 20 July 2027.
Read the full updateRoughly 35 New Jersey HOA bills are pending. None has had a committee vote
Eight months into the 222nd Legislature, every community-association bill on the board shows the same single line of history: introduced, referred to committee. Most are reintroductions of bills that already died once.
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A Nevada county can now fix your HOA's water system and assess you for 20 years
AB 10 made repair of a common-interest community's water or sewer system a neighborhood improvement project — and switched off the dissolution right, the remonstrance protection and the annual assessment-roll notice that apply to every other kind.
Read the full updateNew York’s Real Estate Finance Bureau abolished wet-ink signatures and in-person notarization
From January 7, 2026 the Bureau accepts scans, DocuSign and remote online notarization, and requires cooperative policy statement applications to be filed through a new portal. The memo cites the HOA regulation by number.
Read the full updateInstitutional buyers lose the off-market route into Oregon HOAs
From January 1, 2027, House Bill 4128 bars covered entities from buying an Oregon single-family home unless it has been publicly listed for at least 90 consecutive days — with middle housing carved out.
Read the full updateInsure the building at less than 80 percent and the NFIP prorates every flood payment
The Residential Condominium Building Association Policy imposes a coinsurance penalty unless the building is insured at 80 percent of replacement cost — with building loss payments capped at $250,000 per unit.
Read the full updateOwners got 60 days' warning of non-renewal. The condo board appears to still have 20
Oklahoma doubled the non-renewal notice period for homeowners and personal residential policies effective July 25, 2026 — but a condominium or HOA master policy is commercial property insurance, and on the face of the rule it is not covered.
Read the full updateNamed-storm coverage is now required for condo financing, and per-unit deductibles are capped at $50,000
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now require windstorm coverage to include named storms and cap master-policy per-unit deductibles at $50,000, effective for applications on or after July 1, 2026 — a direct hit on Mississippi Gulf Coast master policies.
Read the full updateOhio unit owners just won a jury right on condominium damages claims
Porter v. Hammond North holds that a claim for breach of a condominium's governing documents carries a constitutional jury-trial right — because a declaration is more than a contract.
Read the full updateNew Mexico wrote hundreds of rules in two years. None of them says “homeowners association.”
A search of the state's official cumulative indexes of rulemaking for 2025 and 2026 returns no occurrence of homeowner, condominium or community association — the clearest available answer to who regulates a New Mexico HOA.
Read the full updateRhode Island told insurers they cannot drop a homeowner over a blurry roof photo
Insurance Bulletin 2025-3, issued August 18, 2025, sets a fifteen-month currency standard for aerial imagery, bars non-renewal on cosmetic roof streaking alone, and extends to third-party roof scores — but it speaks to homeowners insurers, not master policies.
Read the full updateFinCEN made the HOA exemption from beneficial ownership reporting permanent
A FinCEN final rule effective August 14, 2026 makes permanent the removal of beneficial ownership reporting for US entities, so a Montana HOA or condominium nonprofit corporation has no BOI filing obligation at all.
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