A Rhode Island condominium association may adopt and amend rules and regulations and enforce the declaration, bylaws, and rules against unit owners. Enforcement tools include reasonable fines and litigation, but fines require notice and an opportunity to be heard first.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-36.1-3.02(a)(1) lets the association "adopt and amend bylaws and rules and regulations," and § 34-36.1-3.02(a)(4) authorizes it to "institute, defend, or intervene in litigation … in its own name on behalf of itself or two or more unit owners." Enforcement of restrictive covenants and architectural rules flows through § 34-36.1-3.20, "Enforcement of declaration, by-laws and rules," under which the executive board may impose fines as a method of enforcing "the association's declaration, bylaws, and rules and regulations"—but only after notice and an opportunity for a hearing. The Act does not prescribe a separate architectural-review statute, so the declaration and recorded covenants control review standards, subject to the reasonableness baked into the association's rulemaking power.
Covenant or architectural violations may be enforced through fines (after notice and hearing) under § 34-36.1-3.20 or through litigation; specific penalties depend on the recorded declaration and rules.
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