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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Georgia gives owners no right to charge an EV and no right to install solar
No Georgia statute requires an association to permit EV charging or rooftop solar, and the Public Service Commission issued nothing in the window that changes it. The one binding mandate is a City of Atlanta ordinance.
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Your 1990s Indiana HOA is not exempt from the 2026 reforms
IC 32-25.5 still reaches only associations formed after June 2009 unless an older one opts in — but HEA 1115 widened the list of provisions that bind every association regardless, and the new fining rules are on it.
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Arizona quietly raised its HOA dispute filing fee to $800
The Department of Real Estate now charges $800 per issue to petition against an association, up from $500, with no rulemaking and no public notice — in the same year three bills to cap that fee died.
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Three Iowa short-term rental bills died without a hearing — leaving the declaration in charge
Iowa preempts city and county regulation of short-term rentals and says nothing about covenants, so an association's recorded restriction is often the only enforceable limit. Three attempts to change that failed at a first funnel.
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A pending Ascension Parish rewrite would push subdivision rear-yard drainage onto private owners
The draft would require rear-yard drainage in major subdivisions to be privately owned and maintained, freeze open-ditch subdivisions as open-ditch “in perpetuity,” and tighten detention design to a 50-year storm. The existing code already carries a $100-a-day penalty for encroaching on a drainage servitude.
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Colorado bill to let HOAs demand proof before translating notices died in committee
HB26-1201 would have let a Colorado association require a unit owner to demonstrate the need for correspondence in another language, and would have ended the dual-language requirement. It was postponed indefinitely on February 25, 2026.
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Florida's condo and co-op state-account data deadlines have already passed — and the annual one is 15 January
Rules 61B-23.002 and 61B-78.001 required associations to populate a DBPR online account within 45 days, putting the condominium deadline around 2 August 2026 and cooperatives around 28 August.
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Kentucky's housing omnibus died on a two-word conference report — and took three association amendments with it
SB 9 passed both chambers, then the conference committee filed a report on the last day of the 2026 session marked simply "Cannot agree" — killing the only 2026 measures that would have amended the Planned Community Act or the Condominium Act.
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Three 2026 amendments will show up in your declaration review and change nothing
Terminology cleanup and two General Revisory Acts have put 104th General Assembly citations on the condominium accessible-parking section and the owner-liability shield. A board reading the redline in 2027 should not mistake either for a substantive change.
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Massachusetts bill would have banned condo election proxies and abolished the quorum. It was sent to study
H.1539 would have prohibited proxy voting, removed any quorum requirement for condo elections, barred sitting board members from handling absentee ballots, and set a three-day results deadline.
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Hawaii Supreme Court sets a twenty-year clock on mortgage foreclosure
A published August 2025 opinion holds HRS 657-31's twenty-year period governs mortgage foreclosure — which means an association holding or renting a unit can face a lender's foreclosure two decades after the default.
Read the full updateFiling a lis pendens on a neighbour's condo is privileged, Georgia court rules
A Buckhead owner sued upstairs over a water leak and filed a lis pendens. A jury found slander of title. The Court of Appeals reversed: statements in judicial proceedings are privileged, however malicious.
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Prairie Village banned the rentals your covenants argue about
A 30-day minimum stay took effect in Prairie Village on November 1, 2025, with $500-a-day fines and a one-year licence bar — making the city stricter than most declarations in Johnson County.
Read the full updateColorado wildfire risk scores became appealable on July 1 — and condo policies are covered
HB25-1182 took effect July 1, 2026, requiring insurers to credit community-level mitigation or give discounts for it, disclose the score behind a nonrenewal, and answer an appeal on a 10-day and 30-day clock.
Read the full updateIllinois court: your declaration saying you are not a master association does not matter
In Bogot v. Haverford Homeowners Association the First District held that Section 18.5(a) decides master-association status regardless of what the declaration says, upheld equal per-unit assessments in a mixed community, and required owners to sue derivatively.
Read the full updateBeneficial-ownership reporting is permanently off for Louisiana associations, and the state says so
FinCEN finalised in August 2026 the relief it granted in March 2025: only foreign-formed entities registered to do business in a US state are reporting companies. Louisiana's Secretary of State carries the same message and confirms it collects no beneficial-ownership information itself.
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A Madison judge held that objecting to your board's decision is not, by itself, an injury
Two Heritage Plantation residents sued to stop their HOA from culling Canada geese. Circuit Judge Patrick M. Tuten denied the injunction and dismissed the case: harm to the geese was not harm to them.
Read the full updateHawaii Act 121 puts a rule-based rental ban on HCDA leasehold condominiums
Act 121 rebuilds the 99-year leasehold condominium program with a 60-day eligible-buyer window, a 60 percent income restriction, and a rental prohibition that will live in agency rules rather than statute.
Read the full updateSJC: signatures on a petition are enough to prove majority support for a resident purchase
Crown Communities LLC v. Austin upheld a manufactured housing resident association's right of first refusal and rejected c. 93A claims against the competing buyer's resident outreach.
Read the full updateFlorida created its first recall process for community development district boards
SB 1180, effective 1 July 2026, lets 10 percent of registered CDD voters petition to recall a supervisor. Until now there was no mechanism to remove one mid-term.
Read the full updateA South Fulton HOA director is charged with forging a deed to take a unit
Tabetha Rowe was booked into the Fulton County Jail in July 2025 on charges including first-degree forgery and theft related to registration of title to land. It is the second criminal case at the same complex.
Read the full updateThe sign window opens in early October
Indiana law bars an association from prohibiting political signs from 30 days before an election to 5 days after, and the Attorney General has warned that removing one can be criminal conversion.
Read the full updateIllinois bills would have stopped associations restricting balcony plug-in solar; both died
The Plug-In Illinois Act would have barred associations from restricting or imposing unreasonable conditions on plug-in solar units on balconies and patios. SB 3104 cleared committee 9-4 then missed the Senate deadline; HB 4524 never left Rules.
Read the full updateColorado's appellate courts published three HOA opinions in twenty months
A census of every Colorado Court of Appeals and Supreme Court announcement from January 2025 to September 2026 finds almost no citable association precedent — and more than twenty association appeals decided in opinions nobody can read.
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