Lee's Summit, MO HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

When a development contains common property, the recorded declaration of covenants and restrictions required by UDO Sec. 290 must specify that lot owners are liable for maintenance costs and that those costs shall be assessed proportionally against the individual lots and lot owners within the development in accordance with the rules of the condominium or property owners' association. The same declaration must build in the City's own backstop: if the association lets a common storm water conveyance, retention or detention facility fall out of compliance and the City abates the deficiency, Sec.

290(M) requires that the City's abatement costs, including enforcement and staff time, be certified to the Finance Director and either issued as a special tax bill or added to the annual real estate tax bill, split proportionally and equally among the lots. That City-driven assessment is capped: it shall not exceed five percent of assessed valuation per individual lot or lot owner per year. Once issued, the special tax bill becomes a first lien on the property from its issuance date and is prima facie evidence of its own validity, so a clerical error in the billing paperwork is not a defense to non-payment.

Special tax bills must be issued by the City Clerk and delivered to the Finance Director by June 1 each year, and any bill left unpaid when due draws interest at eight percent. Separately, Sec. 290(L) requires the declaration to route ordinary maintenance failures, such as a nuisance or disrepair condition on common property, through the same proportional cost-assessment and tax-bill mechanism under the City's Property Maintenance Code rather than leaving cost recovery to the association's private enforcement alone.