Mebane, NC HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

UDO Section 7-7.2(C)(3), Powers of the Association, states that the Owners' Association is empowered to levy assessments against the owners of lots or units within the development to cover expenditures the declaration authorizes, and that any assessments not paid by the owner against whom such assessments are made shall constitute a lien on the lot of the owner. That lien attaches under the ordinance itself; the association does not need a separate city process to create it, only its own recorded declaration. Section 7-7.2(C)(2) adds a backstop running the other direction: if the association defaults on assessments for public improvements or ad valorem taxes levied against the common areas for a continuous period of six months, the ordinance shifts the debt onto the individual lot owners, each of whom becomes personally obligated to pay the City a portion of the taxes or assessments calculated by dividing the total amount owed by the number of lots in the development.

An owner then has thirty days from notice of the amount due before the unpaid share becomes a continuing lien on the property of the owner, his heirs, devisees, personal representatives and assigns, and the City may sue the owner directly or foreclose that lien. Section 7-7.2(C)(1) lists what the association's own assessments are for in the first place: liability insurance premiums, local taxes, maintenance of recreational and common-area facilities, and assessments for public and private improvements benefiting the common areas. The same lien-and-default framework also appears in UDO Section 4-7.3(C)(6), which applies it to condominium homeowners associations.