Will County, IL HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

068 sets the baseline governance requirement for any property owners association (POA) formed to run a subdivision's shared infrastructure. Subsection (A) applies whenever a POA is assigned responsibility for maintaining and controlling streets, drainage easements or facilities, open space, recreational facilities or other common areas within a subdivision: that association must hold legal authority to maintain and exercise control over those areas, including the power to compel contributions from residents or property owners to cover their proportionate share of maintenance costs. Subsection (B) turns that standard into a paperwork checkpoint in the subdivision approval process.

The documents establishing the association must be submitted to the Chief Subdivision Engineer before the county will approve and record the final plat, and those documents must follow the form set out in the Will County Developers' Handbook. The county's review under (B)(2) is deliberately narrow: it checks only that the association has clear legal authority to maintain the common areas and to compel proportionate contributions from members, not the association's internal governance, fee schedules or enforcement of its own covenants. 999, backs the requirement: any person who begins development, or sells or offers to sell a lot, before complying with applicable chapter 154 provisions, including the POA documentation duty, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a minimum $500-per-day fine, with each day a separate offense, and the Chief Subdivision Engineer may refer violations to the State's Attorney.

Because the review sits inside the plat-approval pipeline rather than ongoing oversight, the county's leverage is withholding plat recordation until the authority-to-assess documentation is on file, not policing the association's day-to-day operations afterward.