Jefferson County, MO HOA Rules: Dispute Resolution (2026)

610 on 4-2-2008, creates the county's enforcement path when a subdivision's property owners' association, or any successor association, fails to keep common open space in reasonable order and condition. The Director may serve written notice on the association describing exactly how it has failed to maintain the common open space, and that notice must demand the deficiencies be corrected within 30 days and must set the date and place of a public hearing before the County Council, to be held within 14 days of the notice.

At that hearing, the County Council can modify the terms of the original notice regarding the deficiencies and can grant the association an extension of time to fix them. 5680(A)(10) authorizes the County Council to send County employees onto the common open space to maintain it for up to one year, in order to protect taxable property values in the subdivision and prevent the common ground from becoming a public nuisance; that entry does not give the public any right to use the space. 5680(A)(11) requires the County Council, before that year expires, to call another public hearing, on notice to the association or subdivision residents, to decide whether county maintenance should continue for another year; the Council can keep maintaining the common ground year after year if it finds the association still is not ready and able to maintain it in reasonable condition.