Why this is more than an inconvenience

Vermont has no agency that supervises community associations, no registry, and no complaint process. Title 27A omits the uniform act's administrative article entirely. Every right VCIOA creates is enforced by a private lawsuit, which means the law reaches a Vermont board exclusively through reading.

A board that checks the statute before answering an owner's application is doing the right thing. Right now it gets the wrong answer.

The failure mode is specific and it is expensive. An owner submits an application to install a charger. The board looks up Title 27A, finds no § 3-125, sees nothing limiting its architectural authority, and denies the application on the strength of a covenant. Ninety days later the application is deemed approved by operation of a statute the board never saw, and the covenant it relied on has been void since July 1.

Where to read the law instead

The enacted acts are published in full as PDFs on the General Assembly's own site, under legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Docs/ACTS/, one folder per act number. Each carries the date the Governor signed it and the effective-date section. Those documents are authoritative and current; the codified text is the thing that lags.

For the four 2026 acts that matter to Vermont associations:

• Act 149 (S.202), plug-in photovoltaic devices — signed June 16, 2026.
• Act 152 (S.325), regional planning and Act 250 tier jurisdiction — signed June 16, 2026.
• Act 155 (H.757), manufactured homes and limited equity cooperatives — signed June 17, 2026.
• Act 168 (H.944), the FY2027 transportation program — signed June 18, 2026.
• Act 179 (S.328), housing and common interest communities — signed June 18, 2026.

A second trap: two acts numbered 179

Act 179 of 2026 is the housing and common interest communities act. Act 179 of 2020 is a different statute entirely — the accessory-dwelling-unit and bylaw reform act, which is where 27 V.S.A. § 545(a) came from. Search results conflate them routinely. Vermont numbers acts within each session, so an act number without a year is not a citation.

And a third: what the 2026 acts did not change

Chapter 3 of Title 27A — management of the common interest community, which holds assessments, liens, fines, meetings, records and budgets — carries no amendment later than 2013 apart from the new § 3-125. Sections 3-102 through 3-124 read today exactly as they read three years ago. The posted text of those sections is current; it is the two sections around them that are not.

What to watch next

Vermont Statutes Online is updated after each session closes, so the 2026 acts are expected in the codified text before the 2027 session opens in January. Until then, a Vermont board citing § 1-204 or § 544 from the website is citing repealed language.