St. Peters, MO HOA Rules: Assessment & Dues (2026)

This requirement is one of the minimum terms the Board of Aldermen imposed by Ordinance No. 1933 for every subdivision whose preliminary plat was filed in the City of St. Peters, Missouri after November 12, 1992, under Section 405.820(B). It sits alongside the subdivision's three-manager structure and succession schedule in Section 405.820(B)(1), and it works together with the $2,000 developer trust account in Section 405.820(B)(5) that funds lot-owner lawsuits when the elected subdivision managers themselves fail to enforce a covenant. The fee itself is not city-collected; the subdivision managers assess and collect it from lot owners to fund the subdivision's own enforcement of its recorded restrictions.

Section 405.820(C) confines the requirement to platted residential subdivisions and excludes condominiums organized under Chapter 448, RSMo. The City's leverage over compliance sits at the plat and permit stage: Section 405.820(D) bars the City of St. Peters or any of its commissions from approving a final plat, and bars issuance of a building permit for a lot in the subdivision, unless the recorded covenants actually contain this fee requirement and the developer is in full compliance with it.