In some states, such as California, HOA bylaws are considered public record and must be made available upon request.
You can use the Recorded Document Search to find the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) for a property or HOA. CC&Rs are typically recorded under the name of the property subdivision or the name of the HOA. When searching, please search using the "Business Name" section.
Covenants, conditions, and restrictions, or CC&Rs, are rules that homeowners within a subdivision must abide by. For instance, a typical CC&R document might say that any structures added to your home must conform to the existing structure in terms of height, material, and color.
In Arizona, CC&Rs are usually enforced by homeowners associations (HOAs). In many cases, however, they may also be enforced by individual homeowners.
HOA bylaws are legal documents that revolve around operational issues, mainly pertaining to the board of directors. They're the specific rules that explain how an HOA runs on a daily basis. Within the bylaws, you'll find information about: Board member election processes.
Many aspects of HOAs are directly governed by Arizona statutes, such as the Planned Communities statutes, the Arizona inium Act and the Nonprofit Corporations Act. scope and detail than the Planned Community statutes.
The Supreme Court held that an HOA may not rely on a general amendment power provision in its covenants, conditions, and restrictions to place restrictions on landowners' use of their land only as to those restrictions for which the HOA's original declaration has provided sufficient notice.
Arizona Planned Communities Act This act governs homeowners associations in Arizona and details a number of matters pertaining to planned communities, such as assessment collection limitations, the maintenance of a homeowner's association records, the management of such entities, and the requirements for meetings.
The Homeowners Association Dispute Process is administered by the Arizona Department of Real Estate, which has the statutory jurisdiction to hear issues between residents and homeowner or inium associations.