HOA rules in Maine

Maine splits condominiums and ordinary homeowners' associations. Condominiums are under the Maine Condominium Act, 33 M.R.S. Chapter 31. Maine has no comprehensive planned-community HOA statute, so non-condo associations generally run on recorded covenants plus nonprofit corporate law if incorporated. Confirm which track applies, then confirm the current Maine Revised Statutes text and your documents. This page is general information, not legal advice.

Under § 1603-102(a)(11), a condominium association may, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, levy reasonable fines for declaration, bylaw, and rule violations. The retrieved text does not set a numbered hearing-request day count or a statutory dollar fine cap. Do not invent either. For traditional non-condo HOAs, fine and hearing procedure — if any — come from the governing documents.

A condominium association has a statutory lien for assessments and fines from the time they become due (§ 1603-116); recording the declaration perfects the lien. Condo records must be available for examination upon 10 days' written notice identifying the specific records (§ 1603-118). Incorporated non-condo members may inspect corporate books under 13-B M.R.S. § 715 after at least 5 business days' written notice. Maine has no statewide HOA ombudsman on this page.

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