North Carolina's G.S. 47F-3-102 lets an owners' association enforce its declaration, bylaws, and rules, including architectural and use restrictions. After notice and an opportunity to be heard, it may impose reasonable fines or suspend privileges. Attorney fees in covenant enforcement are recovered chiefly through the lien process in G.S. 47F-3-116.
G.S. 47F-3-102 grants the association power to "adopt and amend bylaws and rules and regulations," to "regulate the use, maintenance, repair, replacement, and modification of common elements," and, under item (12), after "notice and an opportunity to be heard, impose reasonable fines or suspend privileges or services" (except access to lots) for violations of the declaration, bylaws, and rules. Architectural-control authority typically flows from these powers combined with the recorded declaration. The Act does not contain a stand-alone fee-shifting statute for general covenant suits; attorneys' fees are addressed in the lien-enforcement context of G.S. 47F-3-116, which caps fees and the trustee's commission at $1,200 in an uncontested foreclosure of an assessment lien.
Reasonable fines (up to $100 under G.S. 47F-3-107.1) and suspension of privileges or services after notice and a hearing. Continued noncompliance can lead to assessment liens and, for assessment debts, foreclosure under G.S. 47F-3-116.
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