Granville County, NC HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

Section 32-1065 of the Land Development Code requires the developer of any subdivision containing private roads, roads not yet accepted by NCDOT for maintenance, or common areas and facilities such as open space, recreational amenities or stormwater controls, to establish a property owners' association. That association is responsible for maintaining and controlling the private roads and the common facilities, and it also has to step in to maintain, free of defects, roads awaiting NCDOT acceptance if the subdivider defaults on its own maintenance-agreement duties under section 32-1064.

Critically, the association's governing documents must give it real legal authority, including the power to compel financial contributions from property owners for their proportionate share of maintenance costs; a homeowners' group with no dues-collection authority does not satisfy the section. Before the county's planning director will approve and record a final plat, the developer must submit those governing documents for review under subsection (b). The planning director's review is narrow: it checks only that the association has clear legal authority over the roads and common areas, not the broader content of the documents, and the county's sign-off does not endorse the documents or create rights for a third party.

This dovetails with the maintenance-agreement rules in section 32-1064, under which the county can release damages recovered from a defaulting subdivider directly to a duly constituted property owners' association so it can correct road defects itself.