| Alabama | 30 days | Alabama gives a member, or even a potential purchaser, the right to ten categories of HOA records within 30 days of a written request, on payment of reasonable costs, under Ala. Code § 35-20-13. |
| Alaska | 30 days | AS 34.08.490 requires an Alaska association to keep detailed financial records and make financial and other records 'reasonably available for examination' by any unit owner or the owner's agent — and it applies to pre-1986 communities too. The statute names no response deadline, so the guide shows how to make the openness duty stick. |
| Arizona | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Arizona gives you a real right to examine your association's financial and other records within ten business days of asking, for free, under §§ 33-1805 (HOA) and 33-1258 (condo). Here's what's actually open, what can be withheld, and how to ask so the board can't stall. |
| Arkansas | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Arkansas condo owners hold a real, if spare, right: the book of receipts and expenditures, with its vouchers, must be open to all co-owners at convenient hours on announced working days (Ark. Code § 18-13-110). Subdivision owners lean on the Nonprofit Corporation Act and the county records — the bill of assurance is public whether the board cooperates or not. |
| California | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Davis-Stirling gives California owners broad records rights on tight statutory timelines, plus a mandatory annual budget report. Here's what you can see and how to demand it. |
| Colorado | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Colorado owners have a statutory right to inspect association records under C.R.S. § 38-33.3-317, plus required public disclosures. Here's what you can see and how to ask so they can't say no. |
| Connecticut | No fixed day count stated — see guide | CIOA spells out exactly what an association must keep and how fast it has to let you see it, down to a five-business-day response clock. Here's how to use it, and what a Connecticut association can legally withhold. |
| Delaware | No fixed day count stated — see guide | DUCIOA spells out exactly which books, minutes, and financials your association must keep and gives you a real right to inspect and copy them, limited to a specific, narrow list of exemptions. Older Unit Property Act condos get a thinner right: just the financial ledger, open for examination during business hours. |
| District of Columbia | 10 days | DC owners in good standing can examine the association's books and financial records, with only enumerated withholding categories and copying at actual cost (D.C. Code § 42-1903.14), examine and copy meeting minutes on written request (§ 42-1903.03), and, with a third of the votes, force an association-funded audit. |
| Florida | 10 business days | Florida gives owners a 10-business-day window to inspect official records, with penalties for stonewalling. Here's exactly what you can see and how to ask so they can't say no. |
| Georgia | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Georgia's records statute is narrower than many states' — no broad inspect-anything right — but it does guarantee copies of your association's founding documents, a recordkeeping duty for POAs, and a fast-acting payoff-statement rule you can use as leverage. |
| Hawaii | 60 days | Hawaii planned communities must open core documents for free examination and answer any other records request in writing within 60 days (HRS § 421J-7). Condos are on a tighter leash: § 514B-154.5 requires a long list of documents within 30 days of a written request, with copies capped at $1 per page. |
| Idaho | 60 days | Idaho doesn't hand HOA owners one broad inspect-anything statute. Instead it writes in fast, specific deadlines, a five-day account statement, a ten-day financial disclosure, a reconciled annual report, and folds the rest into the Idaho Nonprofit Corporation Act. |
| Illinois | 30 days | Illinois gives owners a real records right with a hard clock: 30 days for HOAs under 765 ILCS 160/1-30(i), 10 business days for condos under 765 ILCS 605/19. Miss the deadline and it's a deemed denial you can act on. |
| Indiana | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Every Indiana HOA must open its financial records, contracts, invoices, receipts, and bank records included, to members on written request, with no purpose test, a free first search hour, and fees capped at $200 under Ind. Code § 32-25.5-3-3. |
| Iowa | 10 business days | Since 2023, every Iowa association — subdivision HOAs included — must produce the governing documents, rules, and latest owner- and board-meeting minutes within ten business days (Iowa Code § 499C.2). Condo owners add § 499B.15(2)'s open-records rule, and members of incorporated associations add § 504.1602's inspection right. |
| Kansas | No fixed day count stated — see guide | K.S.A. § 58-4616 gives owners in both condos and HOAs a real right to examine and copy the association's books, minutes, and even its architectural-decision records, with 10 days' written notice and a short, defined list of things the board can withhold. |
| Kentucky | 180 days | Kentucky gives HOA owners a real right to examine and copy association books, records, and minutes under KRS § 381.795, and gives condo owners an even plainer promise under KRS § 381.9197. Here's what each actually covers. |
| Louisiana | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Louisiana requires your condominium association to make "all financial and other records" reasonably available for your examination under La. R.S. § 9:1123.108, backs that up with a mandatory fidelity bond you can ask to inspect, and gives you a ten-day right to a resale certificate when a unit changes hands. |
| Maine | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Maine's records statute, 33 M.R.S. § 1603-118, is one of the more detailed condo records statutes in the country: eleven specific categories of records the association must keep, a ten-day-notice inspection right, and a short, defined list of what it can withhold, and it applies whether your condo was built in 1970 or last year. |
| Maryland | 21 days | Maryland gives owners on both sides, condo under § 11-116 and HOA under § 11B-112, a real right to inspect books and records and a hard 21-day or 45-day clock on written requests, plus a public depository HOAs must file disclosures into or those disclosures don't count. |
| Massachusetts | 120 days | Massachusetts gives condo owners a real records regime under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183A, § 10, minutes, financial records, an annual report, and mandatory outside audits for larger buildings. Here's what you're entitled to see and how to make the association produce it. |
| Michigan | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Condo owners get a standing right to examine the association's books, records, contracts, and financial statements under MCL § 559.157, plus an audit trigger over $20,000 in revenue. Subdivision HOA owners get a thinner, general corporate recordkeeping duty instead. |
| Minnesota | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Minn. Stat. § 515B.3-118 gives owners a real right to inspect association records, with a fee cap on copies, but that right largely belongs to condo owners and MCIOA-era communities. Older HOAs that never elected into the statute may have to rely on their own declaration. |
| Mississippi | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Mississippi's condominium statute doesn't give owners a general right to inspect the association's books. The only records provision, Miss. Code § 89-9-17(4), lets a declaration provide for an independent audit; the recorded declaration, plan, and lien notices themselves, though, are public records anyone can pull at the chancery clerk. |
| Missouri | 5 business days | Your records right depends on which entity governs you: nonprofit-corporation HOA members get a real inspection statute with a notice-and-purpose test, while condo owners get broader, simpler access built into the condo acts themselves. |
| Montana | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Montana law gives condo owners a narrow but real right to examine the manager's common-expense records. It gives subdivision HOA owners no dedicated records statute at all, which makes your own declaration, and the fact that it had to be recorded at the county, your best tools. |
| Nebraska | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Nebraska condo owners can examine the association's financial and other records under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 76-876, and force a written statement of what they owe within ten business days. Outside a condo, that right doesn't exist in state law at all. |
| Nevada | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Nevada owners can inspect, examine, photocopy, and even audit association records under NRS 116.3118, with anti-retaliation protection. Here's exactly what you can see and how to ask. |
| New Hampshire | 60 days | RSA 356-B:37-e gives condo owners a genuinely detailed disclosure right — a standardized profit-and-loss statement, a 15-day turnaround on financial requests, employee salary disclosure, and minutes within 60 days. Non-condo HOA owners get no equivalent statute at all. |
| New Jersey | No fixed day count stated — see guide | New Jersey condominium associations must keep accounting records open to inspection at reasonable times, and Radburn-era rules add minutes, election records, and DCA oversight. Here's what you can see and how to ask. |
| New Mexico | 10 business days | New Mexico HOAs owe you the books — declaration, bylaws, minutes, budget, bank statements, transaction registers, reserves, the latest audit, and all current contracts — within ten business days, free to inspect, ten cents a page to copy. Miss the deadline and the association owes the greater of actual damages or $50 a day (NMSA § 47-16-5). |
| New York | No fixed day count stated — see guide | New York gives condo owners a real, if narrow, right to examine the board's receipts and expenditures under § 339-w, plus a mandatory annual report. Here's how to use it, and where the statute stops. |
| North Carolina | 75 days | North Carolina gives owners the right to inspect association records, a mandatory annual financial statement, and a 10-business-day deadline for a statement of your account, all under § 47F-3-118. Here's how to use it. |
| North Dakota | No fixed day count stated — see guide | The condo chapter guarantees you the governing documents — recorded at the courthouse and required to be 'made available to every owner' (N.D.C.C. § 47-04.1-07) — but no financial inspection right. That comes from the Nonprofit Corporations Act: six years of minutes and accounting records open to members, a financial statement on request, and an attorney-fee lawsuit for wrongful denial (§ 10-33-80). |
| Ohio | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Ohio spells out a real look-and-copy right for planned-community (HOA) lot owners under § 5312.07. Condo owners have a narrower statutory hook — § 5311.09 requires the association to keep the books — but the same records win the same arguments either way. |
| Oklahoma | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Oklahoma's records right is narrow: condo owners can examine the association's common-expense books, and HOA buyers get a one-time copy of the recorded covenants at closing. For everything else, including an HOA owner's ongoing right to see the books, the county clerk's recorded documents are your real backup. |
| Oregon | 90 days | Oregon gives owners a real examine-and-copy right over association records under ORS §§ 94.670 and 100.480, backed by a mandatory annual financial statement and, for larger associations, an independent CPA review. Here's what you can see, what's off-limits, and how to ask. |
| Pennsylvania | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Pennsylvania condo owners get a real inspection right under 68 Pa.C.S. § 3316, plus a named state regulator to complain to. Planned community (HOA) owners have a parallel document-production right tied to resale. Here's how to use both. |
| Rhode Island | 30 days | A Rhode Island condo association must keep detailed financial records and make them available to you within 30 days of a request under R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-36.1-3.18. There's no state regulator to escalate to if it refuses, so the request itself has to be airtight. |
| South Carolina | No fixed day count stated — see guide | South Carolina's records rights are narrow and specific: HOA members can inspect the annual budget and membership list, and rules have to be made accessible on request. Condo owners get a real, standing right to examine the association's financial book and its receipts. |
| South Dakota | No fixed day count stated — see guide | If your South Dakota association is a nonprofit corporation, SDCL § 47-24-2 gives you one of the broadest member records rights around: all books and records, for any proper purpose, at any reasonable time. The recorded master deed and covenants are public at the register of deeds no matter what. |
| Tennessee | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Condo owners can examine association records under Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-27-417. Subdivision HOA owners hold a quieter but powerful right: the Nonprofit Corporation Act's inspection statute, § 48-66-102, which no charter or bylaw can take away. |
| Texas | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Chapter 209 requires Texas HOAs to adopt a records policy and produce books and records on a written request, and to record the rules that bind you. Here's how to demand both. |
| Utah | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Utah's records statute has real teeth: core documents must be free on the association's website or at its registered address, copy costs are capped, and an ignored request costs the association $25 a day plus your attorney fees under Utah Code § 57-8a-227. |
| Vermont | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Vermont requires the association to keep a real list of records, including the committee's own architectural approval decisions, and to make them available to any owner on five days' written notice. Here's what you can see and how to ask. |
| Virginia | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Virginia gives owners access to association records and meeting notice under Va. Code § 55.1-1815, with the condo equivalent in § 55.1-1945. Here's what you can see and how to ask so they can't say no. |
| Washington | No fixed day count stated — see guide | RCW 64.90.495 gives owners the right to examine and copy the association's books within a defined window, spells out what can be redacted, and guarantees a few things for free. |
| West Virginia | No fixed day count stated — see guide | West Virginia gives unit owners a broad right to examine "all financial and other records" under W. Va. Code § 36B-3-118, plus a fast ten-business-day right to a statement of what you owe under § 36B-3-116(g). Here's how to use both. |
| Wisconsin | No fixed day count stated — see guide | Wisconsin condo owners pick their own inspection date on 10 business days' notice, copying is capped at the lesser of cost or $150, and 100-unit associations must post records on a website — all under Wis. Stat. § 703.20. HOA owners lean on § 181.1602's five-business-day nonstock-corporation right and the DFI's public directory. |
| Wyoming | No fixed day count stated — see guide | For incorporated Wyoming associations, Wyo. Stat. §§ 17-19-1601 to 17-19-1604 deliver a records right with real teeth: core records on five business days' written notice, accounting records and board minutes with a stated proper purpose, copy fees capped at production cost, and court-ordered inspection where the association pays your attorney fees for a bad-faith refusal. |