CCRs enforceable as equitable servitudes running with the land under NY RPL 339. Boards may fine, suspend privileges, or seek injunctive relief. Selective enforcement and waiver defenses available to owners.
In New York, recorded Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions (CCRs) bind successive owners as equitable servitudes running with the land. Condominium associations operate under NY Real Property Law Article 9-B (§339), and homeowner associations operate under the recorded declaration plus common-law contract principles. Boards may impose fines authorized in the declaration/bylaws, suspend amenity privileges, place liens for unpaid assessments (RPL §339-z priority for condos), and seek injunctive relief in NY Supreme Court. Owners defending enforcement may raise waiver (where the board has tolerated past violations), laches, selective enforcement, and arbitrary-and-capricious conduct under Levandusky v. One Fifth Avenue Apt. Corp., 75 N.Y.2d 530 (1990). Documents are recorded at the Rensselaer County Clerk's Office in Troy.
Association-imposed: fines per declaration ($25-$500 typical); lien for unpaid amounts; suspended privileges. Court-imposed: attorney's fees, injunctions. Owner violations of CCRs usually trigger cure notices before monetary penalties.
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