Rhode Island law · Condominium Ownership Act

R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-36-8

Compliance with declaration and rules

Covered in 3 owner guides

What this section does for you

The older Condominium Ownership Act's compliance section: violations are grounds for a lawsuit for damages or an injunction, with no statutory fine schedule or hearing requirement of its own.
Owner guide: Fines & violations in Rhode Island
Older-act compliance clause: an enforcement action requires the standard to be set out in the declaration, the deed, or lawfully adopted bylaws or rules, the same threshold that applies to any other alleged violation.
Owner guide: Architectural review in Rhode Island
The older act's compliance clause ties any enforcement action to actual noncompliance with the declaration, deed, bylaws, or rules, the same framework uneven enforcement strains.
Owner guide: Selective enforcement in Rhode Island

The statutory text

Verbatim from the public record. The law itself is a government work — always confirm the current version on the official source before you rely on it.

Each unit owner shall comply strictly with the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in the declaration or in the deed to his or her unit, and with the bylaws and/or house rules and with the administrative rules and regulations drafted pursuant thereto, as either of the same may be lawfully amended from time to time, and failure to comply shall be ground for an action to recover sums due for damages or injunctive relief or both, maintainable by the manager or management committee on behalf of the unit owners, or in a proper case, by an aggrieved unit owner.