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Your rights · Indiana
Indiana's HOA Act is quiet about fines and loud about process. Every HOA in the state, whatever its age, must open its financial records to members on written request, let members attend board meetings, and run a grievance procedure before either side can sue. The attorney general can move against a board that crosses into fraud, and since 2022 homeowners hold a petition path around solar bans.
Guides in this state
Controlling law: Indiana Homeowners Association Act (Ind. Code art. 32-25.5) & Condominium Act (Ind. Code art. 32-25)
Last reviewed July 10, 2026· Citations link to the statute text
Indiana wrote its Homeowners Association Act in 2009 (Ind. Code art. 32-25.5), and its structure matters to what you can demand. The full act governs HOAs established after June 30, 2009, and older associations whose members vote to adopt it. But the legislature made a core of it universal: the records, budget, and board-meeting rights in § 32-25.5-3-3(g) through (m), the proxy rules in § 32-25.5-3-10, the quorum-failure rule in § 32-25.5-3-11, the attorney general's enforcement powers in chapter 4, and the grievance-resolution procedure in chapter 5 apply to every Indiana HOA, whether it was formed in 1979 or last year. A board that waves you off with 'the HOA Act doesn't apply to us' is usually wrong about the parts that matter most.
Condominiums are a separate track. The Condominium Act (Ind. Code art. 32-25) governs them, including the assessment lien and foreclosure rules in § 32-25-6-3, and condo owners lean on their bylaws and the nonprofit corporation law for governance details. In both regimes, the state's posture is the same: Indiana says little about what associations may charge and much about how disputes must proceed, records first, a mandatory meeting before litigation, and a regulator watching for outright fraud.
The records right has real specifics. On written request, a member may inspect the association's financial records, including all contracts, invoices, bills, receipts, and bank records, and the statute says access may not be unreasonably denied or conditioned on stating an approved purpose. The first hour of any record search is free, additional time is capped at $35 per hour and $200 total, and the association (and individual board members) must retain and produce, for two years, written and electronic communications relating to the association's financial transactions. Members also hold a statutory right to attend any board meeting, including the annual meeting (§ 32-25.5-3-3).
The grievance procedure is the sleeper. Under chapter 32-25.5-5, a 'claim', broadly defined to cover disputes about the interpretation, application, or enforcement of the governing documents, or the rights and duties of the association and its board, cannot go to court until the complaining party serves a written notice describing the dispute and the parties attempt resolution through the statutory meet-and-confer process. That rule binds the association as much as it binds you: an HOA that races to court over a fine or an alleged violation without running the grievance process is out of order under the statute it would rather you didn't read.
The local twist
The HOA Act as a whole applies to associations formed after June 30, 2009, but Ind. Code § 32-25.5-1-1 makes the essentials universal: financial-records access, the member's right to attend board meetings, the proxy rules, attorney general enforcement, and the grievance procedure apply to every Indiana HOA regardless of when it was created. Age is not the exemption boards think it is.
Chapter 32-25.5-5 requires a written claim notice and a good-faith meeting process before a covered dispute goes to court, and it applies in both directions. It is a free, mandatory forum for contesting a fine or a denial, and a procedural defense when an association skips it and files suit anyway.
Section 32-25.5-3-3 entitles members to the association's contracts, invoices, bills, receipts, and bank records on written request, without having to justify the purpose. The first search hour is free, fees are capped at $35 an hour and $200 total, and financial communications must be kept and produced for two years, including from individual board members.
Under chapter 32-25.5-4, the Indiana attorney general may act against a board member who knowingly or intentionally uses the position to commit fraud or a criminal act against the association or its members. For self-dealing that a private lawsuit can't reach economically, a complaint to the AG is a real, no-cost escalation path.
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