Utah CC&R & Architectural Rule Enforcement (Utah Code §§ 57-8a-217, -218)

Under § 57-8a-217, a board may "adopt, amend, modify, cancel, limit, create exceptions to, or expand the rules," subject to the declaration and the limits in §§ 57-8a-218 and -219. A rule or design-criteria change is valid only if made at a meeting, with notice to all owners "at least 15 days before" the board considers it, an open forum allowing owners to be heard, and a copy delivered to owners within 15 days after. Section 57-8a-218 requires that "a rule shall treat similarly situated lot owners similarly" and limits rules: they generally may not restrict a dwelling's interior, penalize compliant rental owners, forbid reasonable activity within a lot, require disposal of pre-existing personal property, bar lot transfers, or prohibit rear-yard vegetable gardens — and rules "may not be unreasonable." Recorded covenants are enforced under contract and property law.

No specific statutory penalty against owners. Remedies follow the declaration — typically corrective orders, injunctions, or fines under § 57-8a-208. A rule or design criterion adopted without the § 57-8a-217 notice-and-forum process, or one that violates the equal-treatment and content limits of § 57-8a-218, is unenforceable.