Lake Havasu City, AZ HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

Section 13.24.100 of the Lake Havasu City Code sits in Chapter 13.24, the subdivision title's provisions for private accessways and common-interest development. Subsection A makes a property owners' association compulsory and nonrevocable for qualifying subdivisions, requiring articles of incorporation, a declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions, and by-laws covering maintenance of common open space to be recorded at the same time as the final plat. Subsection B lists what those recorded documents must contain at minimum: any amendment must be sent to the Department before it takes effect; improvements approved by the city must be maintained for the condominium's life; the association is responsible for maintaining facilities in private vehicular accessways whenever a public utility agency does not maintain them; emergency personnel may enter the property to abate a nuisance or respond to an emergency; and no owner can escape a prorated share of common-area expenses by renouncing rights in the common area.

The operative backstop is paragraph 6: the city itself has the power to enforce the association's maintenance provisions if the association fails to do so, and it can recover all costs it incurs doing that work. That gives Lake Havasu City a direct code-enforcement remedy against a defunct or noncompliant HOA rather than leaving neighbors to sue under the CC&Rs alone, though the section still treats the CC&Rs themselves as privately recorded, privately enforceable documents in the first instance.