| Alabama | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Alabama's Act has detailed, specific rules for the moment members take over board elections from the declarant, notice within 120 days and a 10 percent nomination threshold under Ala. Code § 35-20-9, but it stays silent on recurring annual meetings, quorum, and proxies. |
| Alaska | two-thirds of those present at a quorum meeting can remove a director with or without cause — whatever the bylaws say | Alaska requires an annual meeting, lets 20 percent of the votes force a special one with 10 to 60 days' agenda-stating notice, sets quorum at 20 percent, and gives owners two blunt checks: a majority of all owners can reject any budget, and two-thirds of those present at a quorum meeting can remove a director with or without cause — whatever the bylaws say. |
| Arizona | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Arizona's open-meeting law is unusually strong: it requires real notice, lets you record what happens, and states outright that ambiguity gets resolved in favor of openness, under §§ 33-1804 (HOA) and 33-1248 (condo). Here's how meeting and board-control rights actually work. |
| Arkansas | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Arkansas's governance floor is short: condo bylaws must be recorded and must fix how meetings are called, a 51% majority to adopt decisions, and a minute book (Ark. Code § 18-13-108) — and two-thirds of the property's value can replace the administration itself (§ 18-13-109). Everything else lives in your documents and, for incorporated HOAs, the Nonprofit Corporation Act. |
| California | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | California requires secret-ballot elections run by an independent inspector, open board meetings, and gives members the power to recall directors. Here's how to use each. |
| Colorado | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Colorado owners get open meetings, statutory quorum and voting rules, and a defined executive board structure under C.R.S. §§ 38-33.3-308 to -310.5. Here's how board power is checked. |
| Connecticut | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Connecticut regulates your association's meetings and votes in detail: mandatory open board meetings, a hard cap on undirected proxies, and a real right to remove a board member mid-term. Here's how the numbers actually work. |
| Delaware | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | DUCIOA requires an annual owners' meeting, quarterly board meetings that are open once the developer lets go, and real notice before either happens. Older Unit Property Act condos get a bare proportional vote and nothing else on paper. |
| District of Columbia | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | DC condo boards operate under sunshine rules: meetings open to every owner in good standing, 21-day notice of regular meetings, a mandatory owner-comment period, and executive sessions confined to listed topics by recorded vote (D.C. Code § 42-1903.03). Proxies are strictly regulated, and declarant control of a new building ends on a statutory clock. |
| Florida | majority of the total voting interests | Florida owners can attend and speak at meetings, demand proper election procedure, and recall a board with a majority of the voting interests. Here's how board power is actually checked. |
| Georgia | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Georgia's quorum and proxy rules are thinner for HOAs than for condos, but condo owners get something rare: a statutory right to sue and force an election if a developer won't let go of the board. Here's how governance power actually shifts. |
| Hawaii | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Hawaii requires 14 days' written notice with a stated agenda for association meetings, opens board meetings to member participation, and lets members remove directors with or without cause — by board recommendation or a petition of 100 members or 25% of the units, whichever is less. Condo owners can force a special meeting with a 25% petition. |
| Idaho | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Idaho requires open board meetings, a decade of preserved minutes, and real caps on proxies and board seats, plus hard deadlines for a developer to hand over the board, though that last piece currently only applies to HOAs formed after July 1, 2025. |
| Illinois | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Illinois requires HOA board elections at least every 24 months, sets real meeting and quorum rules, and lets a fifth of the membership force a vote on the board's biggest money decisions. Here's how the checks work. |
| Indiana | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Indiana lets you watch your board work: members may attend any board meeting under Ind. Code § 32-25.5-3-3, proxies must meet statutory formalities under § 32-25.5-3-10, and a failed quorum has defined consequences under § 32-25.5-3-11. |
| Iowa | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Iowa's sharpest governance rule is § 499B.15(2): condo board meetings are open to all owners, each needs seven days' notice, and action taken in violation is not valid or enforceable. Owner-meeting mechanics come from the bylaws (§ 499B.15(3)) — and no bylaw change binds anyone unless recorded (§ 499B.14). |
| Kansas | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Kansas requires noticed annual meetings, an owner-triggered special meeting right, open board meetings with only narrow reasons to close the room, a 20% default quorum, and a cap on how much of the vote one proxy holder can control. Here's how the mechanics work. |
| Kentucky | two-thirds vote of everyone present and entitled to vote at a quorate meeting under KRS § 381 | Kentucky sets real quorum, notice, and proxy rules for both HOA and condo meetings, in KRS §§ 381.792 and 381.9179, but the two acts diverge sharply on how hard it is to remove a board member. Here's how governance actually works. |
| Louisiana | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Louisiana doesn't set a statewide annual-meeting, quorum, or proxy rule for condo associations; your bylaws do that. What state law does fix: amending the declaration takes a vote of unit owners holding at least sixty-seven percent of the association's votes (La. R.S. § 9:1122.119), and owners get a one-year window to cancel a developer's self-dealing contracts by majority vote (§ 9:1123.105). |
| Maine | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Maine sets real notice windows for meetings (33 M.R.S. § 1603-108), default quorum at 20% of votes for owners and 50% for the board (§ 1603-109), and a hard ceiling on how long a proxy can run (§ 1603-110), plus a statutory deadline for when a developer has to hand the board to owners. |
| Maryland | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Condo owners get one of the more detailed meeting-and-election statutes around under § 11-109 — quorum, proxies, nominations, and a hard clock on developer turnover. HOA lot owners get a real open-meetings law under § 11B-111 and a 60% threshold to amend their own documents under § 11B-116. |
| Massachusetts | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Massachusetts lets condo boards meet and vote electronically under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183A, § 24, but the statute leaves quorum, proxies, and election rules almost entirely to your own bylaws. Here's how governance actually works, and where the real power lives. |
| Michigan | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Michigan's strongest owner protection isn't in the Condominium Act at all. It's in the Nonprofit Corporation Act, which requires annual meetings, real notice, and lets a member go to court if the board skips its own election. |
| Minnesota | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Minnesota requires an annual owner meeting, lets 20 percent of owners force a special one, and puts a hard clock on how long a developer can keep control of the board. Board meetings themselves are presumptively open, too. |
| Mississippi | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Mississippi's condo statute leaves quorum, proxy, and meeting-notice rules almost entirely to what your declaration adopts under Miss. Code § 89-9-17(1), except for one hard floor: amending the declaration itself requires a majority-in-interest vote after reasonable notice under § 89-9-17(3). |
| Missouri | 20% of either the executive board or the unit owners (or a lower percentage if your bylaws say so) | Missouri's nonprofit corporation law sets real default meeting, notice, and quorum rules for most subdivision HOAs, and the Uniform Condominium Act sets a parallel set for newer condos. Here's how board power is checked in each. |
| Montana | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Montana lets associations meet by phone or video by default, but leaves quorum, notice, and voting mechanics for a subdivision HOA entirely to its own bylaws. Condo bylaws at least have to address quorum and stagger the board, even though the state doesn't set the numbers itself. |
| Nebraska | two-thirds recall right over the board | Nebraska condo owners get an annual meeting, a real quorum floor, and dated, hard-to-revoke proxy rules under Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 76-866 to 76-868, plus a two-thirds recall right over the board. Here's how the numbers actually work. |
| Nevada | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Nevada owners can attend and speak at meetings, demand proper secret-ballot elections, and remove a board member under NRS 116.31036. Here's how board power is actually checked. |
| New Hampshire | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | RSA 356-B gives condo owners one of the more detailed meeting-and-voting statutes around — mandatory annual meetings, a 33-percent petition right to force a special meeting, quorum floors, proxy caps, and a real right to remove a director mid-term. Non-condo HOA owners get one narrow protection. |
| New Jersey | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | New Jersey's Radburn amendments put statutory floors under association elections: open nominations, 14-60 days' written notice, absentee ballots wherever proxies are used, and board meetings that must be open with minutes. Here's how board power gets checked. |
| New Mexico | two-thirds of owners at a quorum meeting | New Mexico requires an annual meeting at least every thirteen months, 48-hour public notice of board meetings, a statutory right to attend and speak, neutral ballot counting, a ban on paid proxy harvesting, and — unless your documents say otherwise — removal of a board member by two-thirds of owners at a quorum meeting (NMSA §§ 47-16-17, 47-16-9, 47-16-8.1). |
| New York | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | New York's Condominium Act doesn't set meeting-notice deadlines the way some states do, it requires your own by-laws to spell out elections, quorum, and voting under § 339-v. Here's how to read that fine print and hold your board to it. |
| North Carolina | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | North Carolina requires at least one annual meeting, lets 10% of owners force a special meeting, and guarantees you a chance to speak at board meetings under § 47F-3-108. Board elections and removals are covered in § 47F-3-103. |
| North Dakota | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | North Dakota's condo chapter is silent on meetings and elections — governance mechanics come from your bylaws. The statutory floor for incorporated associations is the Nonprofit Corporations Act: 50 members or 10 percent can demand a meeting, notice runs 5 to 50 days, quorum defaults to 10 percent, and directors can be removed with or without cause by the members who elected them. |
| Ohio | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Ohio's HOA and condo statutes don't set quorum, proxy, or meeting-notice rules the way some states do — that's your bylaws' job. What the law does guarantee: minutes get kept, and you can get them. |
| Oklahoma | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Oklahoma's condo bylaws must address how meetings are called and what counts as a majority, but the state sets no quorum floor, no proxy rules, and no open-meeting requirement, and its owners-association statute says nothing about meetings at all. Your declaration and bylaws are doing almost all of the work. |
| Oregon | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Oregon requires at least one annual meeting, sets a default 20 percent quorum, and flatly bars boards from evading its notice rules with 'chance or social meetings.' Owners also get a real recall right — removing a director with or without cause, after giving the director a hearing. Here's how it works. |
| Pennsylvania | two-thirds vote at a meeting with a quorum present (§ 3303(f) / § 5303(f)) | Pennsylvania sets real meeting-notice rules under 68 Pa.C.S. § 3308, forces a candidate forum before a contested board election, and even requires larger condos to certify election results through an independent reviewer under § 3303. Here's how board power gets checked. |
| Rhode Island | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-36.1-3.08 requires an annual meeting and lets owners force a special meeting; § 34-36.1-3.09 sets default quorum at 20% of votes for owners and 50% for the board. Older-act condos leave both numbers to their own bylaws. |
| South Carolina | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | South Carolina's only HOA meeting-notice statute covers one narrow event, a budget increase, and even that exempts most incorporated HOAs. Condo owners get real majority, quorum, and supermajority thresholds baked into the required bylaws. |
| South Dakota | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | For incorporated South Dakota associations, the Nonprofit Corporation Act supplies the floor: an annual meeting, a special meeting on demand of one-twentieth of the votes, 10-to-50-day written notice, a one-tenth quorum default, and proxy and ballot voting. The gap to know: directors can only be removed mid-term by a procedure in the articles of incorporation. |
| Tennessee | 10% meeting demand and director removal | Tennessee condo owners can force a special meeting with 20% of the votes and must get 10-60 days' notice with a real agenda under Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-27-408. HOA owners can demand a meeting with 10% and remove directors with or without cause under the nonprofit act. |
| Texas | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Texas opened up HOA governance: owners can attend board meetings, vote by secret ballot in many elections, and use the recorded rules to hold the board to proper procedure. |
| Utah | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Utah board meetings are open to owners with notice, executive sessions are limited to narrow topics, and owners hold a power most states never grant: 51% of voting interests can veto a board rule within 60 days under Utah Code § 57-8a-217. |
| Vermont | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Vermont sets real quorum and open-meeting rules, caps how many undirected proxies one person can wield, and lets owners recall a board member with or without cause. Here's how board power is actually checked. |
| Virginia | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Virginia owners get noticed association meetings, board meetings under Va. Code § 55.1-1816, and voting and quorum rules for condos under § 55.1-1953. Here's how board power is checked. |
| Washington | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | RCW 64.90.445 guarantees notice, open board meetings, and real comment time, and lets owners force a special meeting with just 20 percent of the votes. |
| West Virginia | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | West Virginia requires at least one association meeting a year, a defined notice window, and specific agenda content under W. Va. Code § 36B-3-108, but stays silent on quorum and proxy rules, and legacy condos aren't automatically covered by this section at all. |
| Wisconsin | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Wisconsin condo meetings need at least 10 days' written notice, proxies die after 180 days, and declarant control ends on a statutory clock with an election within 45 days — Wis. Stat. § 703.15. There's no open-meetings rule for condo boards and no HOA meeting statute, so the documents and chapter 181 carry the rest. |
| Wyoming | Not stated in one clean figure — see guide | Incorporated Wyoming associations owe their members an annual meeting with a financial report, notice 10 to 60 days ahead, and a 10 percent default quorum, and the members hold a genuine recall power: five percent can force a special meeting, with a self-help remedy if the board stalls, and directors they elected can be removed without cause (Wyo. Stat. §§ 17-19-701 to 17-19-808). |