New Hampshire still has not adopted UCIOA, and nothing proposes that it should
New Hampshire still has not adopted UCIOA, and nothing proposes that it should
2026-09-15 · New Hampshire · Legislation
The state of play. New Hampshire has not adopted the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, in either its 1982 or 2008 form, and we found no evidence of any movement toward it. No 2027 legislative service request on the House list as filed references uniform acts, common interest ownership, or a Condominium Act rewrite modeled on one.
What New Hampshire has instead
Two statutes and a gap. RSA 356-B, the Condominium Act, governs condominiums. RSA 292, the voluntary corporations chapter, supplies the corporate law most associations are organized under. Between and around them, for non-condominium homeowners associations, there is no comprehensive statute at all — a detached-home subdivision with covenants is governed by its recorded instruments, corporate law and contract law.
UCIOA's whole design point is to close exactly that gap by covering condominiums, cooperatives and planned communities under one act. That is the thing New Hampshire has declined to do.
New Hampshire is not an enacting state
It appears on no enactment list for either version of the act, and its own statute books confirm the point from the other direction: RSA 356-B is a condominium act of New Hampshire's own drafting, amended piecemeal since the 1970s, and there is no chapter anywhere in the Revised Statutes Annotated corresponding to a uniform common interest ownership act.1
A sourcing note, stated rather than papered over: the Uniform Law Commission's own enactment map URL returns a page-not-found error, so we are reporting New Hampshire's absence from the adopting states on the basis of New Hampshire's statute books rather than on the Commission's list. Elsewhere in New England the act has been taken up — Vermont and Connecticut are enacting states — which is worth knowing mainly because it means a New Hampshire practitioner reading a Vermont or Connecticut decision is reading a different statutory scheme.
A correction worth making loudly
An article headlined "NH HOA Governance Requirements Could Receive an Overhaul," describing a UCIOA-modeled condominium governance bill as live, circulates widely in search results and is undated on the page. It is from 2015. It is not current New Hampshire news, the bill it describes is long dead, and it should not be relied on by anyone.
The same problem affects a list that circulates on AI-generated and SEO "New Hampshire HOA law" pages, asserting that the Condominium Act was modernized by three 2024-2025 bills including one making rules registered with the registry of deeds count as condominium instruments. That bill — HB 383 (2025) — was killed. Anything repeating that list is repeating a false statement about what New Hampshire law says.
We flag both because the shape of the error is instructive: New Hampshire's condominium statute genuinely has been amended piecemeal over the years, which makes any claim that it was "modernized" plausible-sounding and hard to falsify without checking the actual bill status.
What adopting UCIOA would actually change here
Category-level, and stated without predicting anything: the act supplies default rules where New Hampshire currently supplies none. Reserve obligations, a statutory records-inspection right across all community types, a uniform framework for assessments and liens, developer transition duties, and standardized resale disclosure are all things UCIOA addresses and New Hampshire either leaves to the declaration or addresses only for condominiums.
It also does something enacting states find contentious: it typically applies to pre-existing communities, at least in part, overriding inconsistent declaration provisions. That is the provision that generates opposition from associations who read their recorded instruments as settled.
The nearer-term vehicle, if there is one
Not UCIOA. The 2026 session set in motion a review of the condominium statutes as part of the registration-threshold legislation, and that review — rather than a uniform act — is the realistic route by which New Hampshire's Condominium Act gets reopened.
Separately, the 2026 session extended condominium-style records, transparency and conflict-of-interest duties to homeowners associations effective January 1, 2027. That is the first time New Hampshire has imposed statutory governance duties outside the condominium context. It is not UCIOA and does not resemble it structurally — it borrows provisions rather than adopting a framework — but it is movement in the same direction, and it arrived without a uniform act.
A gap in what we could establish
Worth stating rather than papering over. The Community Associations Institute's UCIOA legislative tracking page and its New Hampshire legislative resources page both refused automated access. If CAI's New England chapter legislative action committee has a 2027 agenda for New Hampshire, we could not retrieve it and will not characterize it. Anyone who needs that should contact the chapter directly.
What to watch next
The condominium statute review, and the 2027 filing rounds in November and December. If a uniform-act bill appears in New Hampshire, it will appear there first, as a title on the legislative service request list, before any text exists.
Until then, the operative answer for a New Hampshire board asking what statute governs it is the unsatisfying one: for a condominium, RSA 356-B; for anything else, your declaration.
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