Can an HOA expire.

This subdivision was built in 1969, and a sentence in the covenants has brought a great debate on whether the HOA has expired. "This agreement shall run with the land and be effective thereon for 35 years. " What does this mean?. Out of 200 plus homeowners maybe 30 are paying maintenence dues. This is not enough to maintain roads or commen areas.

lifespan of HOA covenants but not the community : best to check with a lawyer in your state. BUT some jurisdictions put a "sunset" onto the mutual framework of criss-crossing promises between component properties. Then without 100 % contracted re-enactment, its merrily back from the Twilight Zone to normality. This of course is inapplicable to legislated templates like condos/stratas/syndicats. Bob D ( not in new york)

"Most states have convents . . ." Just to clarify the above, does this mean that most U.S. states have actual enacted legislation - Acts of the state legislature - which provide such hurdles against expiry ?

Or does it mean that most shared ownerships site-specific governance documents of the POA/HOA/ building scheme category, have internal promises onto title / "covenants" which erect such barriers to expiry ( by normal neglect, obsolescence whatever / )?

here's my problem with never ending expirations of deed restriction of a HOA, say like your community that has say 100 house but only 20 people paying for things. along comes a developer whom scouting a area out and finds say your community. checks with the city if that HOA tax's are up to date and finds out well this community is supposed to be in a fully functioning HOA and supposed to have been paying taxes to the city on it's common lots since say 1969 and the city been repairing the roads and lights all that time. talks to his buddy in the tax department then files all kinds of lawsuits to recover the city money that's been owed since 1969. and places a lien on their lots and then buys the lien from the city and sues the lot owners and takes their houses since their elderly on fixed income and can't pay the developer he then turns demolishes the lots and builds multi million dollars estates on said community land.

But that's scenario is they have a few that's knows their in a HOA, there's lot's of recorded deed restrictions with a named HOA in them but that just emplaced to stop some jerk developer placing a small house in their prize neighborhood. if HOA is abandoned there needs to be laws emplaced to rectify that from happening.