This By-Laws document contains the following information: the name and location of the corporation, the shareholders, and the duties of the officers.
Property Owners Association Bylaws For Nonprofit In Oakland
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An HOA has the authority to enforce the rules and regulations of the community using the community rules, or “bylaws and covenants.” These rules are considered “agreed upon” since homeowners approve them through board-elected representatives.
What are unenforceable HOA rules? Keep you out of court. Hush up litigation. Discriminate indiscriminately. Enter your home without cause or notice. String you out on the (clothes)line. Fine you for fun. Change rules on the fly. Demand you take down your dish.
Laws always supersede governing documents IF they conflict and the law applies to your HOA. In California, the Davis-Stirling Act may take precedent over general corporation codes because it's specific to HOAs.
In 2024, the California legislature passed an amendment that allowed online elections to be held within HOAs. It recognized that this could open the door to digital vote manipulation within the HOA's management, though, so the state mandated that each HOA election needed to have an independent inspector of elections.
The new HOA law in California, passed in September 2024, includes amendments to the Davis-Stirling Act of 1985. These amendments make it possible for HOAs to conduct elections online rather than through costly and time-consuming paper balloting.
While you can propose rule changes through proper channels, there's no legal way to simply ignore or “get around” the HOA's covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs) that you agreed to when purchasing in the community.
Because of this, California law gives HOA boards some latitude in adjusting HOA assessments. Civil Code Section 5605(b) allows boards to increase regular assessments up to 20% over the prior year and to impose a special assessment in an amount equal to up to 5% of the HOA's budget gross expenditures for the year.
How Much Should an HOA Fine? Like all provisions of an association's governing documents, fines must be "reasonable." No statute or case law defines when the amount of a fine is, or is not, reasonable.
What Happens if Nobody Runs for the Board - Coast Management of California. Directors of HOA boards continue to serve until they are replaced at the next election. If no one runs for the board, existing board members can serve in perpetuity.