Bulloch County, GA HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

Zoning Ordinance Section 1455(g)(4) sets mandatory financial obligations on any homeowners' association formed to hold and manage open space within a conservation subdivision. The association is made responsible for maintenance, insurance, and taxes on the open space, and it must assess dues from members to cover those costs unless the developer or association can show another income source is available to cover them. Members are required to share the costs of open space development and maintenance equitably, as spelled out in the association's bylaws, and the ordinance expressly empowers the association to place liens on non-open-space lot owners who fail to pay their assessed dues.

This dues-and-lien structure sits inside a broader set of conservation subdivision HOA requirements: membership for every non-open-space lot owner in the subdivision is mandatory and automatic, the developer must provide the association's bylaws and maintenance plan to the planning director for approval before a final plat is recorded, the developer must endow the association with a financial subsidy before final plat approval, and the association cannot be dissolved without the consent of the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners. The board of commissioners may also require the association to establish and maintain a minimum reserve fund.

Because these obligations are written into the zoning ordinance itself rather than left to a private declaration, a conservation subdivision HOA in the county cannot simply decline to assess dues or waive its lien authority against a delinquent lot owner.