Existing law requires a unit-owners' association for a common-interest community to adopt bylaws and authorizes an association to amend the bylaws and adopt rules and regulations concerning the community. (NRS 116.3102) Section 1 of this bill prohibits the executive board and governing documents of an association from requiring a unit's owner to install landscaping in the back yard of his or her unit sooner than 36 months after the close of escrow for the initial purchase of the unit. Section 1 further authorizes the executive board and governing documents of an association to require a unit's owner to install a thin layer of rock in the back yard of his or her unit not sooner than 18 months after the close of escrow for the initial purchase of the unit. Existing law authorizes a unit-owners' association to charge reasonable fees for costs associated with collecting any past due obligation. (NRS 116.310313) Section 2 of this bill prohibits an association from: (1) charging any late fee sooner than 30 days after an obligation becomes past due; and (2) reporting any past due obligation to a reporting agency that assembles or evaluates information concerning credit. Existing law authorizes a unit-owners' association to assess a unit's owner for certain damages or common expenses. (NRS 116.3115) Section 3 of this bill prohibits an association from assessing a unit's owner for an oil stain that is not located on the driveway of the unit's owner. Existing law authorizes the governing documents of a unit-owners' association to set forth rules that reasonably restrict parking in the common-interest community and authorizes an association to impose fines for a violation of the governing documents. Existing law also prohibits an association from restricting the parking of certain utility service vehicles, law enforcement vehicles and emergency services vehicles under certain circumstances. (NRS 116.31031, 116.350) Section 4 of this bill prohibits an association from restricting the parking of certain vehicles displaying a commercial advertisement, other than vehicles displaying a commercial advertisement containing a sexual portrayal or depicting an image relating to the sale of a controlled substance. An association may require such images to be obscured by a magnet. Existing law imposes certain requirements relating to agreements for the management of a common-interest community and requires the Commission for Common-Interest Communities and Condominium Hotels to adopt regulations regarding the transfer of all books, records and other papers of a client upon the termination or assignment of such an agreement. (NRS 116A.620) Section 5 of this bill requires, with certain exceptions, the association to provide notice of the termination of an agreement to be posted within the common elements of an association and provided by electronic mail to all units' owners who have provided the association with an electronic mail address.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 116.310313, 116.3115, 116.350, 116A.620
BDR: 116.310313, 116.3115, 116.350, 116A.620