A Utah HOA board may adopt and amend rules and design criteria under Utah Code § 57-8a-217, but only with 15 days' advance notice to owners, an open forum, and a copy of the change sent within 15 days after. Section 57-8a-218 requires rules to treat similarly situated owners similarly and bars several categories of overreaching restrictions.
Under § 57-8a-217, a board may "adopt, amend, modify, cancel, limit, create exceptions to, or expand the rules," subject to the declaration and the limits in §§ 57-8a-218 and -219. A rule or design-criteria change is valid only if made at a meeting, with notice to all owners "at least 15 days before" the board considers it, an open forum allowing owners to be heard, and a copy delivered to owners within 15 days after. Section 57-8a-218 requires that "a rule shall treat similarly situated lot owners similarly" and limits rules: they generally may not restrict a dwelling's interior, penalize compliant rental owners, forbid reasonable activity within a lot, require disposal of pre-existing personal property, bar lot transfers, or prohibit rear-yard vegetable gardens — and rules "may not be unreasonable." Recorded covenants are enforced under contract and property law.
No specific statutory penalty against owners. Remedies follow the declaration — typically corrective orders, injunctions, or fines under § 57-8a-208. A rule or design criterion adopted without the § 57-8a-217 notice-and-forum process, or one that violates the equal-treatment and content limits of § 57-8a-218, is unenforceable.
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