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The 2021 legislative session was one of the most active legislative years impacting California community association law. Pressures of the California affordable housing...

On October 19, 2021, Governor Newsom issued a State of Emergency proclamation effectively expanding the drought emergency statewide. The proclamation follows the...

 By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL

The 2021 Legislative season in California has ended, and five good HOA bills (a record in recent decades) are becoming law. Assembly...

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq.

Kelly: With the Governor's executive orders on Covid rescinded in June, is there anything preventing boards from conducting in-person meetings...

ESTABLISHING POLICIES FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM INSTALLATION REQUESTS

BY: JONATHAN R. DAVIS, ESQ.

This article first appeared in CAI-GRIE, Connect Magazine: 2021-Issue 3. To...

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL

Last week’s column recapped five bills proposing to help HOAs. This week addresses the other side of the coin, as four legislative...

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL

In typical years the Legislature considers a handful of bills concerning HOAs, but 2021 is an unusually heavy year. There are at least 20...

This year in Sacramento only one major HOA bill, Assembly Bill 3182, passed to become law effective January 1, 2021. The bill creates a new Civil Code Section 4741 banning...

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL

[Spoiler Alert: Community Associations Will Survive.]

It was a tumultuous year in Sacramento due to the pandemic. Only one major HOA bill...

By Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. CCAL

Assembly Member Ting from San Francisco authored Assembly Bill 3182. After multiple rounds of amendments, it was approved on...

Assembly Member Ting from San Francisco has authored Assembly Bill 3182. In its original form it was a horrible bill but later amendments improved it from horrible to just...