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 Nebraska committee will hear neighborhood associations on blight November 6
LR 415 is the only HOA-adjacent item alive in Nebraska, and Urban Affairs has noticed a hearing on whether cities must consult associations before declaring property blighted.
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Maryland still runs three separate community-association statutes, and last looked at merging them in 2006
No UCIOA adoption bill, no omnibus rewrite, no law-revision or bar-association proposal. The practical cost is a year of drafting discrepancies — a wrong word in one statute, an exemption that exists in one form and not the others.
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NC bill for an HOA complaint database stalls, opposed by the AG it would empower
House Bill 1174 would have required the NC Department of Justice to run a public HOA complaint database, but it stalled in committee and the Attorney General's office objected that it grants intake without authority to resolve anything.
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Missouri HOAs would have faced a re-election every ten years at 85 percent, or dissolved
Twin bills HB 2840 and SB 1313 would have dissolved every Missouri homeowners association at ten years absent an 85 percent renewal vote, with existing associations voting by 31 December 2026. Neither got a hearing.
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Minnesota HOA boards must publish agendas and the contracts they plan to sign
Chapter 82 deletes the “to the extent practicable” hedge on open board meetings, requires the agenda and the actual documents up for a vote to be circulated in advance, and gives owners an enforceable right to speak before any action.
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Michigan's top court split 3–3 on short-term rentals, so nothing was settled
Berlin Revocable Trust v Rubin was affirmed by an equally divided Supreme Court on July 9, 2025 — leaving an unpublished Court of Appeals decision standing and creating no binding statewide rule.
Read the full updateBaltimore County associations have failed three times to win the power to sue over a nuisance property
HB 305 would have let community associations bring nuisance-abatement actions in Baltimore County and repealed the bond requirement that deters them. It passed the House and died in Senate Judicial Proceedings — again.
Read the full updateThe Michigan Condominium Act has not been amended once in three years
A sweep of every Public Act of 2024, 2025 and 2026 finds no amendment to 1978 PA 59 — and none to the Nonprofit Corporation Act either. Everything that changed for Michigan associations came from somewhere else.
Read the full updateNebraska HOA appeals keep dying before anyone reads the merits
Court of Appeals records show association appeals dismissed for lack of jurisdiction under Rule 2-107(A)(1), including one association that filed four and lost all four.
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Camden inspects every three years; Kennebunk counts to fifteen days
Two Maine coastal towns brought short-term rental ordinances into force on 1 January 2025 on very different designs — Camden licensing and inspecting with no unit cap, Kennebunk registering anything rented for fifteen days or less.
Read the full updateMissouri's HOA erosion loan fund passed 11–0, then died 5–6 in Rules
HB 1734 would have created a state revolving loan fund for association creek and stream stabilisation, with liens on owners' lots as collateral. It was the only 2026 Missouri HOA bill anyone voted on.
Read the full updateMinnesota doubles the redemption window for HOAs holding a junior lien
For redemptions after 1 January 2026 a junior creditor gets 14 days instead of seven, and sheriff's-sale surplus now flows to junior lienholders by priority on demand — but the notice-of-intention deadline that traps associations is unchanged.
Read the full updateNC's 2024 building code is still not in effect, and no condo inspection mandate exists
North Carolina construction and renovation still proceeds under the 2018 code after repeated statutory delays, and the state has adopted no structural or balcony inspection requirement for condominiums.
Read the full updateMichigan owners are paying full dues on condos that no longer exist
After a fatal Southfield fire and an Orion Township gas explosion, owners of destroyed units were still billed in full — and Michigan has no statute abating assessments on an uninhabitable unit.
Read the full updateA Maryland covenant enforcer lost $17 million for exercising a power its architectural committee held
"Sole and absolute discretion" does not decide WHICH body gets to say no. In a reported December 2025 decision, the Appellate Court of Maryland affirmed a jury verdict of nearly $17 million against the entity that rejected a proposal only its ARC could reject.
Read the full updateSewage on the association's land: a Missouri court said only one kind of lawsuit was available
The Southern District made a writ of prohibition permanent, holding that inverse condemnation is the exclusive remedy when an entity with eminent-domain power damages association-owned common property.
Read the full updateMinnesota's 30-year covenant clock can kill a declaration — and a 2018 amendment won't restart it
Eagle's Landing holds that covenants created in 1993 expired in 2023 and cannot be resurrected, with no waiver exception. Reed, sixteen months later, shows how broad the escape hatch is — if the association actually pleads it.
Read the full updateTwo Nebraska rulings on who owns the strip you have been mowing
Goldie v. McNeil and Kortmeyer v. Hendrix reached opposite results five months apart and together set the current Nebraska rule on adverse possession inside a subdivision.
Read the full updateMaine's 2021 code cycle now governs every common-element rebuild
The Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code moved to the 2021 International Code Council editions on 7 April 2025, which changes what a reserve-funded roof, envelope or mechanical replacement actually costs.
Read the full updateBeneficial-ownership reporting is permanently over for Michigan associations
FinCEN's final rule, effective August 14, 2026, exempts US-created entities from beneficial ownership reporting and removes any duty to update information already filed. Michigan associations have no obligation left.
Read the full updateNC's HOA incorporation bill died — then half of it passed anyway
House Bill 993 would have required every North Carolina association to incorporate and file annual reports; it never left House Rules, but the annual-report half arrived through the Nonprofit Corporation Act instead.
Read the full updateMaryland's largest HOA removed three elected directors in closed session. A judge has not yet ruled
Columbia Association removed three village representatives on a five-of-nine vote after an ethics investigation. They sued for reinstatement, were denied a restraining order, and a Howard County judge has reserved decision since 1 July.
Read the full updateA court struck down Missouri's HOA chicken law. Two months later, two legislators refiled it.
SB 1059 and HB 2435 re-enacted section 442.404 with the chickens provision intact — one changing 'up to' to 'no more than', the other making stylistic edits. Both died without a hearing.
Read the full updateMinnesota's Cooperative Housing Act is delayed again, to August 2027
Minn. Stat. ch. 308C, enacted in 2024, has now had its effective date postponed twice and arrives 1 August 2027 — while the bill written to make it workable was introduced six weeks before adjournment and never heard.
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