Salinas, CA HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

Sec. 31-704 governs the CC&Rs, articles of incorporation, and bylaws that a subdivider must file with the city planner, city engineer, and city attorney for review and approval before a residential or non-residential condominium conversion can record its final map or parcel map. Subsection (c), 'Power of enforcement,' requires the CC&Rs to give unit owners an enforceable right to make the association maintain adequate capital reserves, adequate maintenance, and adequate performance of its other duties, and to give the association itself explicit power to control and correct nuisances and to make and enforce rules, which the association may delegate to an officer or a professional manager.

That association-level enforcement sits alongside city oversight. Subsection (h), 'City approval for certain amendments,' bars the CC&Rs from being modified, once approved, to remove any provision required to comply with Chapter 31 or the project's conditions of approval without the city's consent, and separately gives Salinas itself the discretionary right, but not the obligation, to enforce the CC&Rs directly. In practice that means day-to-day rule enforcement, assessments, and nuisance abatement run through the association under its CC&Rs and bylaws, while the city reserves a backstop enforcement power over the specific provisions that were required as a condition of the conversion approval, plus a permanent veto over amendments that would strip those required provisions out.