Arkansas has no statute authorizing, regulating, or capping HOA fines. An association's power to levy monetary penalties for rule violations exists only if its recorded declaration or bylaws grant it. There is no statutory notice-and-hearing requirement, no dollar cap, and no state agency oversight of HOA fines.
Arkansas's Horizontal Property Act (Ark. Code §§ 18-13-101 to 18-13-120) and its Nonprofit Corporation Act of 1993 (§ 4-33-101 et seq.) contain no provision empowering or limiting fines. Whether an Arkansas HOA may fine at all — and any required notice, hearing, amount, or appeal — turns entirely on the recorded CC&Rs and bylaws, enforced as a contract. Courts uphold a fine only if the governing documents clearly authorize it and the association follows its own procedures; ambiguities in restrictive covenants are construed in favor of free use of land. Section 18-13-108 requires condominium bylaws to state the 'manner of collecting from the co-owners' for common expenses, but does not address punitive fines.
No specific statutory penalty. An owner's exposure is limited to whatever the declaration/bylaws authorize; a fine imposed without clear authority in the governing documents, or without following the documents' own procedures, is unenforceable in court.
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