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Your rights · Wyoming
Wyoming's entire condominium act is four sections long. It recognizes condo ownership, defines terms, makes your unit its own tax parcel, and turns your declaration's membership and assessment provisions into covenants running with the land (Wyo. Stat. § 34-20-104(c)), then stops. No lien statute, no fine rules, no meetings, no records. The rights Wyoming owners can actually use live in the Nonprofit Corporation Act: removal of directors without cause, a five-percent special-meeting demand with a self-help remedy, records inspection on five business days' notice, and court-ordered inspection where the association pays your attorney fees for a bad-faith refusal.
Guides in this state
Controlling law: Wyoming Condominium Ownership Act (Wyo. Stat. §§ 34-20-101 to 34-20-104) & Nonprofit Corporation Act (Wyo. Stat. §§ 17-19-101 et seq.)
Last reviewed July 10, 2026· Citations link to the statute text
Wyoming regulates community associations about as lightly as any state in the country. The Condominium Ownership Act, Wyo. Stat. §§ 34-20-101 through 34-20-104, runs four sections. Section 34-20-102 recognizes condominium ownership as a separate fee simple estate in an individual air space unit plus an undivided interest in common elements. Section 34-20-103 defines the vocabulary. Section 34-20-104 makes each unit a separate parcel on the tax rolls, confines a tax lien to the delinquent unit so no forfeiture or sale of one unit can touch the title of another (subsection (a)), requires the declaration and a unit map to be recorded with the county clerk (subsection (b)), and, in subsection (c), converts a declaration's mandatory-membership, assessment, and attorney-in-fact provisions into covenants running with the land, binding every owner and every successor. That last sentence is the legal engine of every Wyoming condominium association: it is why you owe assessments at all. There is nothing else. No assessment lien, no fining or hearing provision, no records right, no meeting, quorum, proxy, or election rule, and no architectural-review section. Wyoming has no general HOA act for subdivisions either, and it never adopted the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, so a non-condo HOA runs entirely on its recorded covenants plus ordinary contract and property law.
The rights that fill the vacuum come from the Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act, Wyo. Stat. §§ 17-19-101 et seq., which governs any association organized as a nonprofit corporation, which nearly all managed Wyoming associations are; the secretary of state's business search confirms yours in a minute. Unlike the condominium act, this statute is modern, detailed, and quietly owner-friendly, because it was drafted to protect members of any nonprofit against entrenched insiders. The tools it hands you are the subject of the guides below.
Three protections stand out. First, elections and accountability: members can remove any director they elected, with or without cause, at a meeting called for that stated purpose (§ 17-19-808), five percent of the voting power can demand a special meeting and, if the board sits on the demand for thirty days, the demanding members may set the time and place and send the notice themselves (§ 17-19-702), and a court can order a meeting held if the association skips its annual meeting for fifteen months (§ 17-19-703). Second, records: on five business days' written notice you may inspect and copy the core records (articles, bylaws, board resolutions on membership rights, member-meeting minutes for three years, communications to members including three years of financial statements, the director and officer list, and the latest annual report), and with a proper stated purpose you can reach accounting records, board minutes, and the membership list; copy charges are capped at the actual cost of labor and materials, and a court that orders inspection after a refusal also orders the association to pay your costs, including reasonable counsel fees, unless the refusal was in good faith (§§ 17-19-1601 through 17-19-1604). Third, fair process before your privileges are cut: no membership right may be terminated or suspended except by a procedure that is fair and reasonable and carried out in good faith, with a statutory safe harbor of fifteen days' written notice stating the reasons and an opportunity to be heard at least five days before the suspension takes effect (§ 17-19-621).
What Wyoming does not give owners matters just as much, and these guides name it plainly: no statutory assessment lien (the association's path to your home runs through its own declaration or a court judgment), no fine authorization or cap, and no state-law override of covenants for solar panels, flags, or chargers beyond the federal floors that apply everywhere. In Wyoming, your declaration is most of the law you live under. Read it like the contract it is, and hold the association to every procedural promise the Nonprofit Corporation Act makes on top of it.
The local twist
Wyo. Stat. §§ 34-20-101 to 34-20-104 recognize condominium ownership, define terms, handle taxes and recording, and make declaration obligations run with the land. That's the whole act. Every governance question, fines, liens, meetings, records, architectural control, is answered by your recorded declaration and, for incorporated associations, the Nonprofit Corporation Act, not by condominium law.
Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-808 lets members remove any director they elected, with or without cause, at a members' meeting called for that purpose, provided the meeting notice states removal is on the agenda and the votes cast to remove would have been enough to elect. The entire board can be removed the same way. Combined with the five-percent special-meeting demand in § 17-19-702, Wyoming owners hold a real recall power most of them have never been told about.
If an incorporated association refuses a proper records demand, Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-1604 lets a member get a court order on an expedited basis, and the court shall order the association to pay the member's costs, including reasonable counsel fees, unless the association proves its refusal was in good faith. Copy charges are separately capped at the actual cost of production (§ 17-19-1603(c)). Stonewalling has a price tag here.
Under Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-621, no membership or membership right in a nonprofit corporation may be terminated or suspended except by a fair, reasonable, good-faith procedure; the statutory safe harbor is fifteen days' prior written notice stating the reasons and an opportunity to be heard at least five days before the effective date. A board that cuts an owner's amenity access or voting rights as an enforcement move without that process is defying the statute, though any challenge must be brought within one year.
Owner guides
Each guide explains your rights from the owner’s side, cites the controlling statute, walks the steps, and answers the questions boards hope you won’t ask.
Notice, hearing, and cure rights before a fine can stick.
When unpaid dues become a lien, and what limits foreclosure of your home.
The books and records you can inspect, how to ask, and the clock the board is on.
Quorum, ballots, proxies, recalls, and open-meeting rights that check board power.
ARC timelines, approvals, and the laws that protect solar, flags, and antennas.
Fined when a neighbor wasn't? How the docs and statute frame the defense.
Wyoming Condominium Ownership Act (Wyo. Stat. §§ 34-20-101 to 34-20-104) & Nonprofit Corporation Act (Wyo. Stat. §§ 17-19-101 et seq.), full text, section by section — the primary source behind every guide above.
The HOA and condo legislation we track in Wyoming, with plain-English notes on what each bill means for homeowners.
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