Nassau County, FL HOA Rules: Board Governance (2026)

Nassau County Code § 29-48, part of the county's subdivision regulations in Chapter 29, requires every subdivision, including rural subdivisions, to have a property or homeowners association responsible for maintaining roads, easements, amenities, required landscape tracts, stormwater facilities and streetlights that serve the development. Before the county issues a building permit for the subdivision, the developer must record the association's bylaws, covenants and certificate of incorporation in the county's public records, giving the county and future lot owners a filed legal record of who is responsible for shared infrastructure.

The section carves out one exception: if a subdivision has no roads, amenities, easements, fire suppression systems, or other shared elements that need maintenance by a common entity, no homeowners association is required at all. This sits within Article III of Chapter 29 alongside § 29-46's neighborhood- and regional-park dedication requirements, which can obligate a new development's homeowners association, property owners association, or community development district to build and maintain private neighborhood parks under a fee-in-lieu or dedication scheme tied to the county's comprehensive plan, and § 29-47's rules for vacating recorded plats, easements and rights-of-way, which require mailed notice to property owners within three hundred feet. The requirement was carried into the current code by Ord. No. 2017-05 and most recently amended by Ord. No. 2025-014.