2/3 to change declaration

Your need to read your own governing documents, where you'll very likely see what % is required to amend your declaration. That % might very well be near the end of your declaration. 2/3s is very typical, and my HOA's owners voted to reduce ours from 2/3 to a simple majority when we amended our declaration in 2022.

I doubt there's a state "law" about this.

It is typical across the country that it takes 2/3 or more to amend covenants.
This is because they are considered a contract in the eyes of a court and parties to a contract must agree to changes.
2/3 is considered a super majority.

Expecting that you are not under declarant control,
Georgia 44-3-226. Amendment of instrument is pretty clear [emphasis added]:

(1) Except to the extent expressly permitted or required by other provisions of this article, the instrument shall be amended only by the agreement of lot owners of lots to which two-thirds of the votes in the association pertain or such larger majority as the instrument may specify;

I would expect similar language if it's a condominium, but I did not check.

Kerry,

Freddie, the OP, was asking if it was a law. They did not know.

I see that Tim, and I see your reply, which I acknowledged. I believe it's perfectly OK if I dig a little deeper. I've never seen a requirement on this forum that we only answer the OP's question.

In NH RSA 356 states that it takes 2/3 approval of all owners to amend the condo instruments. Association bylaws can not reduce that percentage,but could increase it.

The purpose of requiring a super majority to amend the declaration is to make changing the declaration difficult. This promotes stability.

I can understand reducing the percentage to amend bylaws to a simple majority. But for amending covenants, I think requiring a super majority to amend remains the best choice.

I hear you. All I can say is that this forum has seen reports of multiple, substantive amendments to declarations (well after the declarant has left), and confusion seems to be the result.Sure. Every COA/HOA is going to do whatever it wants.

Of course, just getting the super-majority to approve any Declaration change is a challenge. And it iss expensive, from attorney fees to get the wording right to running votes, often over a few years.

It's interesting to see that NH statutes require 2/3.

CA seem to be an anomaly because if an HOA can show that it worked very hard to get (let's say) the 2/3 to approve amendments to the covenants--and there are several hoops to jump through, IF more than a simple majority of owners approved the amendments, the court can rule that the amendments are approved.

This happed to my HOA in '22 when we campaigned very diligently, offered prizes for owners to vote, held a TH with our HOA general counsel with plenty of Q&A, provided redline originals and a two page explanation of all major changes, and sent stamped self-addressed envelopes &. ballots to those offsite owners who hadn't voted and we still only could get 63% approval. The judge approved our rewritten CC&Rs, which now include a simple majority required for amendments.

With at least 25% landlord and another 15% or so part-time owner occupants, it was as struggle encouraging them to vote.

I disagree with Elle that, "....this forum has seen reports of multiple, substantive amendments to declarations ...and confusion seems to be the result." I didn't even recall any with such dire results.