Drafting Rules: How Community Associations Maintain Peace & Harmony is available in both print and digital formats. You are viewing the digital version. Purchase the print book here.
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Nothing can cause ill will within community associations like unclear, unfocused rules.
Community associations, like society in general, depend on rules to provide certainty, order, and safety. But community associations also have a responsibility to protect commonly owned resources; rules are byproducts of the need in a community to share these resources.
Drafting Rules will help ensure that your rules are easily obeyed and enforceable. It also will provide input for rules you may have overlooked. The new edition covers the legal basis for rulemaking, offers guidelines, and contains an appendix with sample community association rules that cover practically everything from trash to the swimming pool.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction — Background and Key Points
Chapter 1 — Legal Basis for Rulemaking Powers
In-Unit Regulation
Condominium Law
Common Law
Chapter 2 — Rule Development
Writing and Amending Rules
Chapter 3 — The Components of a Good Rule
Chapter 4 — Guidelines, Edicts, and Decrees
Guidelines
Edicts and Decrees
Appendix — Community Association Village, Inc. Rules
Additional Resources
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