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What do the Covenants say about rule making? Have you looked there?

All we have are Articles of Incorporation, By Laws and Rules and Regs. We do not have CC & R's. We are a non-profit if that matters at all.

Many, perhaps most, HOA's are non-profit corporations, and most also have Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and another document that may be called Declarations or Covenants or Restrictions or some combination of the above. These Declarations are usually the "Deed Restrictions" that apply to ownership of a property in the HOA; amending these usually requires a majority or super-majority of Members (homeowners) of the HOA.

Some HOA's may have additional rules and regulations, which may be documented in various ways, and are often set and changed by the HOA's Board of Directors.

Perhaps your Rules & Regs are actually the Deed Restrictions for your HOA? That may be an unusual title. Are you sure that is the formal name for this document? If these are your Declarations (Deed Restrictions), then they are separate from your Bylaws, they should contain a procedure for amendment, and they may also contain a clause that specifies precedence in case of conflict -- I think the Declarations usually take precedence, then the Articles of Incorporation, then the Bylaws. The Bylaws and Articles may also contain such a clause.

Colleen,

Do you have a document titled: "covenants, conditions, restrictions, assessments, charges, servitudes, liens, reservations and easements"? It may be referred to as the declaration or the covenants but most often the CCRs. If you are a nonprofit corp with bylaws and articles of inc and you have members who are obligated to pay assessments to the HOA I would be very surprised to learn that there isnt' a set of CCRs floating around somewhere. If you have access to your county recorder's website perhaps you can do a search under the name of your assn. Otherwise I would suggest calling the recorders office and asking if there are CCRs on file in the name of your assn.

If indeed all you have are AOI and By-Laws it is doubtful that you are in a HOA but more likely belong to some sort of voluntary group that owns the lake and they are very likely within their rights in how to change the assigning of boat slips. Even if you are somehow in an HOA unless the boat slips or mooring buoys are deeded to a particular person instead of being owned jointly then it would be up to the BOD to decide how they were assigned. And just because one BOD solicited funds with the promise that no further changes were to be made it is doubtful that another BOD would be bound to it. Kind of like Congress last year passing a law and congress this year voting to change the law.

Colleen, are you stand alone homes in a subdivsion?

We are privately owned homes (250) and the association provides the water, roads, beach and community center. We don't have any CCRs either, but we are incorporated and have Articles, bylaws, and policies.