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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A $9,000 Nevada HOA fine was not enough damage to get into court
In Piazza v. Spring Mountain Ranch Master Association, the Nevada Court of Appeals held that NRS 116.4117 requires actual, non-speculative damages even where a homeowner asks only for a declaration that she did not violate the CC&Rs.
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Suing your Oklahoma board now starts with a letter — and a wait
In Howard v. Barrington, the Oklahoma Supreme Court applied the business judgment rule and the pre-suit demand statute to an HOA board, and held three days was not long enough to wait before filing.
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A bill to let towns enforce your covenants went to study and died
SB 175 would have authorized New Hampshire municipalities to enforce private covenants — including those enacted by homeowners associations — and barred towns from requiring covenants as a condition of land use approval.
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Missoula now allows two units on every parcel — and says covenants still govern
Missoula's Unified Development Code, adopted unanimously on February 2, 2026, permits a minimum of two units per parcel citywide and eliminates residential parking minimums, while the city states that private covenants add requirements it neither keeps nor enforces.
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Half an inch of sidewalk is not a dangerous condition, Mississippi court holds
Rodriguez v. Diamondhead Country Club and Property Owners Association is final: a half-inch offset between sidewalk slabs at the community pool was not a dangerous condition, and a building-code accessibility theory failed because the plaintiff never claimed a disability.
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What a New Mexico board can still enforce against a home child care operator
The 2026 amendment to the Homeowner Association Act bars prohibition and bars fees, but the industry's own account of the negotiation says uniformly applied rules of general application were preserved.
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New York’s closest thing to an HOA statute has never moved — and it mentions a court New York does not have
S1177 would impose statutory triggers for developer turnover of HOA control plus a 90-day, developer-funded, independently audited handover of twenty categories of records.
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A bill would put HOAs under Right-to-Know
SB 873 would add planned-community associations to the definition of “local agency” in Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law, subjecting them to open-records officers, statutory deadlines and appeals to the Office of Open Records. It has not moved since June 2025.
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Ohio's insurer of last resort just added condominium association language
FAIR Plan Bulletin #34 moved commercial business to new forms effective April 1, 2026, adding provisions specific to condominium associations and discontinuing coinsurance — while telling agents to move customers back to the standard market.
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New Jersey's reserve law now lets balances hit zero — and the 85% option expires
P.L.2025, c.132 redefined adequate reserve funding as a 30-year plan that never falls below zero, deleted the old catch-up schedules, and created a five-year 85% funding option carrying a 20-point bold-font warning.
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Federal antenna rules protect the relay that transmits, not just the dish that receives
The FCC's OTARD rule has not changed since 2023, but its 2021 expansion to hub and relay antennas that transmit fixed wireless signals still catches North Dakota boards out.
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A bill to legalise hens and beehives in Oregon HOAs died quietly
Senate Bill 59 would have voided planned-community governing-document bans on gardening, hen-keeping and beekeeping. It got one hearing in February 2025 and was never voted on.
Read the full updateTwo things changed on assistance animals. Neither lets you enforce a no-pets rule
Oklahoma made service-animal misrepresentation a misdemeanour and HUD stopped charging cases over untrained emotional support animals — but the Fair Housing Act is unchanged and the private lawsuit is untouched.
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A Rhode Island declaration that caps fines is void
Section 34-36.1-3.20(d) invalidates any condominium declaration, bylaw or rule purporting to set a maximum fine — so a document promising a $25 ceiling cannot be relied on, and the statutory $100-a-day limit governs instead.
Read the full updateRio Rancho legalized short-term rentals — and its own FAQ says your HOA can still say no
Short-term rentals became lawful in Rio Rancho on July 1, 2025 under a new Chapter 123. The City's published guidance tells applicants that homeowners associations may still prohibit them.
Read the full updateEvery 2026 bill you were tracking is dead, including the ones sent to study
The 169th General Court ended on August 19, 2026 and 2027 opens a new biennium, so nothing carries over — a bill referred to interim study in March is as dead as one killed outright.
Read the full updateMontana exempted HOA-owned EV chargers from its charging-station tax and meter rules
Senate Bill 228, Chapter 216 of the 2025 Laws, rewrote the definition of “charging station” to exclude equipment owned by an association of real property owners, removing the 3-cent-per-kilowatt-hour tax, the dedicated meter and the registration duty as of July 1, 2025.
Read the full updateNevada caps HOA solar aesthetic demands at 3 percent of the install price
NRS 116.334 lets a Nevada owner refuse any solar rule whose compliance cost exceeds 3 percent of the cash cost of installation, proved by an independent estimate, and measures panel relocation against the federal PVWatts calculator.
Read the full updateAlbany spent 2026 debating whether to regulate your board, and dropped every single measure
An ombudsperson with a per-unit fee, mandatory 30-year reserve studies, shareholder power to fire the managing agent, and mandatory inspection disclosure. None of it passed. Here is the honest scorecard.
Read the full updateNew Jersey court: a chicken could be a support animal, but six were not proven
In Amherst Farms Homeowners Association v. D.M. and L.S., the Appellate Division affirmed removal of six backyard chickens kept as emotional support animals because the owners' medical letters were net opinions.
Read the full updateMiss one filing and your association has two years left to exist
Senate Bill 98 put a hard two-year reinstatement window on a cancelled Ohio nonprofit charter effective October 24, 2024 — and the classic way an association loses its charter is a statutory agent nobody has updated in a decade.
Read the full updateA stormwater charge is a tax, says the court
In Borough of West Chester v. PASSHE the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held an impervious-surface stormwater charge is a tax rather than a fee — setting out the two-step test that governs every municipal charge landing on association common areas.
Read the full updateWhat records a Mississippi HOA member can actually demand, and on what notice
Mississippi has no HOA records statute. Inspection rights come from the Nonprofit Corporation Act: five business days' notice for basic records, and a good-faith-and-proper-purpose showing for accounting records and the membership list.
Read the full updateNorth Dakota's first statutory HOA duty is a ten-day document deadline
SB 2229 created N.D.C.C. § 47-10-02.3, a fifteen-item resale disclosure package a North Dakota association must produce within ten days — and a purchase contract the buyer can void until it arrives.
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