Original Documents

I wants to know why y'all wants to know.

Or, why not?

The County would be the first place to check, as was mentioned, but what's recorded at that level varies from state to state. At this point, it's likely your HOA only has the current or most recent versions of documents, not all the various versions between now and when the HOA was created, considering the age.

The association might not even have those. In my state, for example, most records only need to be kept 7 years, so anything that far back could easily have been tossed. We are self-managed, and while that is mostly working out ok, I'm pretty sure there have been times during our history where records were kept poorly, and transitions where stuff was lost along the way. Unless you have had a lot better continuity than we have, I wouldn't count on everything you are looking for being available.

Does MD have an open records law for associations? Here, any member can examine and copy all HOA records per state law, you might want to resource MD HOA statutes.

You can demand but do not be surprised if they do not exist. You have to live by them as they presently are or change them.

Irrelevant.

Thanks, I was going from memory when I probably should have checked. Our association is only about 20 years old and continuity of documentation has been a problem, with the OPs association going back to the 60s, I could see that things that should be there might not be.

Our bylaws have a section that deals with changing the bylaws. They can be changed at anytime by the BOD affirmative vote. But there must be a note placed in the margin next to the section that is being changed. The note must have the location of the new text, and also have the date of the change. With this being the case, I doubt our current bylaws are actually recorded.