HOW TO HANDLE DOCKS SLIPS???

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YvonneC
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Belong to a Lake Front Development Association that has limited dock space? What is the norm and legal way to assign dock space privliges to association members? The land for the dock access is owned by the association members and deeded to their home property. A requirement to be a member. The original members shared in the cost of main docks and each member purchased their own finger dock slip. The docks are full and there are not enough spaces for all homeowners. When a member sells their property is it legal to transfer the dock/pier space with the sale of the property or does the dock space have to go back to the association for re-assignment to members on a waiting list? The original developer did not set up boat docking and we are on the 3rd year of the newly formed association. This is a 50 lot rural development with 31 dock spaces.

hoatalk (California)
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We have a lake in our area and most communities have 'deeded boat slips', meaning they are purchased and transferable. It really depends on how your slips were set up to begin with and your attorney will need to advise on this, I assume.

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JanM (Texas)
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We also have a marina and the boat slips are rented out, first come, first serve.

SusanW1 (Michigan)
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Riparian rights cannot be sold, rented, transfered to another person or raffled off around here.

If EACH dock is deeded to a PARTICULAR piece of property, then that riparian right belongs to the homeowner. That is their deeded right. It is not association property.

However, if the land area is owned by the Association, and there are dock spaces that have been historically established, then the association handles when and where the docks go and who gets to park their boat there for how long. Around here, an association cannot act as a marina and charge for docking rights for profit. Some groups simply have a lottery to see who gets the docking from all the applications.

Very complicated issue . . .

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