Lynchburg, VA HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

Sec. 15(e) is Lynchburg's operative rule for how a mandatory property owners' association bills its members for maintaining shared property. The association's founding documents must set forth the purposes of the permanent organization under which common ownership is established, how the organization will be governed and administered, the provisions made for permanent care and maintenance of the common property including any bonds the City requires, and, specifically, the method of assessing each individual property for its share of the cost of administering and maintaining that common property.

Paragraph (f) of the same section requires the incorporation papers to also disclose the extent of common interest each individual parcel's owner holds in the commonly owned tract, the same interest that typically drives how an assessment is apportioned among owners. Because Sec. 15 sits inside Article II's development-approval procedures rather than a separate homeowners association code, the assessment method is locked in at the plat-approval stage: the City Attorney reviews the incorporation documents for acceptability, and the association must exist and hold these terms before the final plat is approved, recorded, and any lot is sold.

City Council is also barred, under Sec. 6(c)(6), from using a conditional rezoning to force a property owners association formed under Title 55, Chapter 25 (Sec. ) of the Code of Virginia to assess members for maintaining facilities the City itself owns in fee, such as public parks, schools or fire stations, unless those facilities are sidewalks, special street signage or lighting not maintained by the Department of Transportation.