BOD Enforcing Basket Ball Goals in Drive Ways

enforce the covenants. Everyone agreed to them when they bought and signed their contracts, and as a board member, one of your duties is to enforce the covenants fairly.

The proper thing would be to enforce the covenants.

I understand that the board chose to ignore this covenant. That worked until someone complained. NOW the board has the responsibility of enforcing something that they haven't been enforcing. This is sure to cause an uproar in the community.

I would recommend that the board begins by advising the membership of the Boards responsibility to enforce this covenant. They should remind the membership that they are contractually (as the CC&Rs is a contract) required to comply with the covenants. Then they should announce that enforcement of this covenant and all other ignored covenants will commence on mm/dd/yyyy. This way, people have been warned.

Many people do confuse rules, covenants, standards and guidelines. However, they are very different things.

Rules apply to the common area.
Covenants are things within the CC&Rs that members are contractually obligated to comply with.
Standards clarify ambiguous areas of the CC&Rs.
Example: CC&Rs say property is to be maintained. A standard might indicate you may only have x% or less of weeds in the yard for the Association to consider your property being properly maintained.
Guidelines establish criteria that the approving authority uses to approve/deny requests for exterior changes.

Many will say that there is a violation of a guideline when in reality there would be a violation of failing to get approval for the change.

If you care to share, what is the language of the exact covenant that is being violated?

Larry,

I was all set to disagree with you. However, I reread my own governing documents and discovered that you are correct.

Based on my own governing documents, the CC&Rs give the Association the authority to enforce but they are not required to enforce. That's the technicality of the language.

However, most members expect the Association to do the enforcement and ignoring complaints of possible rule violations will probably lead to unexpected consequences.

I don't think it's unreasonable to tell home owners to move their portable goals during the overnight hours. It's restricting use of the goals. Enforce it.