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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Utah has the country’s highest insurance nonrenewal rate
Roughly one in twenty Utah homeowners policies was not renewed in 2025, the highest rate in the United States, and Utah has no FAIR plan behind it — with a new wildfire-mapping regime landing on top.
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Teton County wants written HOA approval before it issues a rental permit
Teton County bans rentals under 31 days outside designated locations and fines up to $750 a day; the Town of Jackson caps residential-zone rentals at three stays and 60 nights a year, and both put the association in the permitting path.
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Vermont's right to charge arrived inside the transportation bill
The standalone EV-charging bill died in committee for the fifth time; the identical idea became 27A V.S.A. § 3-125 as Secs. 31–32 of Act 168, the FY2027 transportation act.
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South Dakota now has a four-part test for changing community rules
Vivos xPoint v. Sindorf holds that a reserved power to amend community rules is not illusory, because the implied covenant of good faith constrains it — and the court built the rule out of community-association precedent.
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Two solar bills, the same section number, and a fourth failed attempt: South Carolina HOAs keep full control of rooftop solar
H. 4460 and H. 4579 would both have added Section 27-1-65 limiting covenant restrictions on solar installations. Both died in committee, and the 2025 Energy Security Act does not touch association authority.
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A Virginia bill would force developers to disclose lingering control
HB 621 would require a declarant retaining board-appointment rights to disclose them in any lot sale contract and on the resale certificate. It was continued to the 2027 session in February 2026.
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Texas's 2026 interim charges skip association law entirely
Neither the Lieutenant Governor's nor the Speaker's 2026 interim charges mention property owners' associations, condominiums, community associations or deed restrictions, leaving no committee formally studying Texas association law before the 2027 session.
Read the full updateThe Wyoming HOA that lost in court still set the building’s occupancy cap
After the Wyoming Supreme Court held that Rafter J's covenants allowed “any commercial purpose” on Lot 333, the association negotiated a 99-person ceiling on the workforce housing that opened there — a term no court ordered.
Read the full updateTwo dates decide which Vermont rights you actually have
January 1, 1999 and January 1, 2012 each carry a different list of statutory sections. Budget ratification, board removal and the flag and sign protections are on neither.
Read the full updateUtah ties the HOA rental fee to a noticed board vote
S.B. 201 capped the rental administration fee at $200 once every 12 months, limited it to associations where at least 35% of lots are rentals, and let an owner force a waiver where the notice requirements were not met.
Read the full updateA contractor served the condominium regime but not the unit owners. Its lien dissolved
TCC of Charleston, Inc. v. Concord and Cumberland, LLC holds that under Section 27-31-230(a) a mechanic's lien after recording of the master deed attaches unit by unit, so service on the regime is not service on the owners.
Read the full updateA bill letting clinics override covenants passed the House, then died 5-0
HB 1105 would have barred any covenant restricting use of property for a healthcare service in a medically underserved area. It cleared the House 45-20 and a Senate committee tabled it unanimously.
Read the full updateVermont's HOA bill was stripped down to a study
S.328 would have voided covenants against leasing, home child care, accessory dwelling units and gardens. Act 179 as signed keeps a report due November 15, 2026 and almost nothing else.
Read the full updateAn FCC petition is testing whether an HOA can ban a rooftop antenna
MB Docket 25-214 asks the FCC to declare a Florida association's rooftop antenna ban preempted by the OTARD rule; the fact pattern is a single-family home, which is the shape most Wyoming associations take.
Read the full updateSixty days ends any auto-renewing Virginia management contract
Since July 1, 2025 a Virginia association or its manager may terminate an automatically renewing management contract without cause and without penalty on 60 days' written notice.
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Tennessee SB 405 is a tax bill, not an HOA act
Several HOA reference sites report that a "Tennessee Homeowners Association Act, SB 405" is under legislative review. The official record shows SB 405 of the 114th General Assembly is a corporate excise tax bill, and it is dead.
Read the full updateH. 4006 would have made South Carolina HOA board meetings open to members. It never left Judiciary
The bill adding open-meeting, political-sign and expired-tag provisions to the Homeowners Association Act, and adding the state flag to the display right, was referred to House Judiciary in February 2025 and never acted on.
Read the full updateEPA runs South Dakota's lead-paint program directly, not the state
The 2024 dust-lead rule names South Dakota as one of the jurisdictions where EPA administers lead-based paint activities itself, and its new action levels bind post-abatement sampling from January 12, 2026.
Read the full updateA Utah plat that said “common area” goes back to trial
In Crosbie v. 750 West Owners Association the Court of Appeals reversed a quiet-title judgment, holding the plat, declaration and a 2016 amendment could not be harmonised and parol evidence was admissible.
Read the full updateVermont's contractor registry stops at four units
The Attorney General fined unregistered residential contractors in May 2026. The registry is a free fraud screen for a townhouse association — and does not reach work on a larger condominium building.
Read the full updateTexas confirms solar roof tiles count as protected solar energy devices
HB 431 amended Property Code § 202.010(a)(2) so that the definition of solar energy device expressly includes a solar roof tile, and the act states the change clarifies rather than alters existing law.
Read the full updateLot owners sued four successive declarants of a golf community. The limitations period had already run
Dykes v. Wild Wing Company, filed August 20, 2025, restates that SC developers owe fiduciary duties over common areas, but that the business judgment rule protects directors and a two-year director-liability period may apply.
Read the full updateWyoming’s zoning protest petition survived two attempts to change it
SF0117 would have widened the protest radius to 300 feet while cutting the council override from three-quarters to two-thirds; HB0077 would have repealed the statute outright. Both died, leaving W.S. § 15-1-603 unchanged.
Read the full updateVirginia resale certificates now warn buyers about the association deductible
Since July 1, 2025 the Virginia resale certificate must state that the governing documents may make an owner responsible for all or part of the deductible on an association insurance claim.
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