Code of Alabama - Title 35: Property - Chapter 20 - Alabama Homeowners' Association Act

• Section 35-20-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Homeowners' Association Act.
• Section 35-20-2 Definitions
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSOCIATION. A homeowners' association. (2) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The group...
• Section 35-20-3 Applicablity of chapter
  (a) This chapter applies to all developments subject to a declaration providing for a homeowners' association recorded in the office of the judge of probate...
• Section 35-20-4 Construction and administration of chapter
  (a) The principles of law and equity, including, but not limited to, the law of nonprofit corporations in Chapter 3 of Title 10A, the law...
• Section 35-20-5 Organization of associations; filing requirements; rulemaking authority; organizational documents
  (a) On or after January 1, 2016, a homeowners' association created pursuant to a declaration shall be organized as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to Chapter...
• Section 35-20-6 Formation of association
  A homeowners' association provided for in a declaration and subject to this chapter shall be formed prior to the conveyance of any lot in the...
• Section 35-20-7 Election of a board of directors and officers; modification of declaration
  A declaration or the governing documents of a homeowners' association may provide for a period in which the declarant will maintain control of the election...
• Section 35-20-8 Priority of declaration
  If a conflict exists between the declaration and the governing documents of a homeowners' association, the declaration prevails, except to the extent that the declaration...
• Section 35-20-9 Notice of election
  (a) Within 120 days of the date the members have the right to elect a board of directors pursuant to the declaration or other governing...
• Section 35-20-10 Delivery of certain information to the board upon election
  Within 90 days of the selection of the board of directors of the association as provided in Section 35-20-9, the declarant, or his or her...
• Section 35-20-11 Powers of board
  (a) The board of directors, to the extent authorized by the declaration and governing documents, may do the following: (1) Suspend a member's right to...
• Section 35-20-12 Liens for unpaid assessments
  (a) Except as may be otherwise provided in the declaration or the governing documents of an association, an association shall have, and there is declared,...
• Section 35-20-13 Records
  (a) A homeowners' association subject to this chapter shall maintain records and information to be made available to each member or potential purchaser, upon written...
• Section 35-20-14 Dissolution and liquidation of assets upon termination of declaration
  Upon the termination of a declaration, or at such other time as required by law, the board of directors shall take those steps necessary for...

Last modified: May 3, 2021