adding guidline to HOA

Bryan, the Declaration and By-laws usually provide for the Board (sometimes the members) approving Rules and Regulations (guidelines). Rules and Regs must be reasonable to hold up in court and do not have the power of the Declaration. Rules & Regs are used to address and provide more specific policies and procedures than the Declaration. I doubt the inspector could tell if your grass is cut once a week; nor do I think this would hold up in court.

Hello! I am new I belong to an ACC and the Board has picked me to be the Prez of the ACC. We have 77 homes new and the builder turned over the HOA about 3 years ago. In that time the Prez left and a new Prez was voted in. In the past 3 years the rules were not inforced and the Board and ACC were getting their feet wet sort speak. When a request for ACC Approval came in the ACC would meet. No big deal until people started to complain about certian things like Solar Lights. The only thing in the CCR says the Lights have to be approved. Well the HOA and ACC sent out letters that there was going to be a walk through the nighborhood and so we did and some neighbors have been using Solar Lights as landing lights for their cars! So we wrote to the homeowner that all Solor Lights must be in Landscaped Beds. My question is can this be amended as a rule? or not? The Solar Lights are getting out of hand. The only thing the CCR says is "Exterior Lighting: All exterior Lighting must first be approved by the ACC. No exterior lighting my shed light onto other properties or into residential dwellings in such a manner that creates a nuisance" Thank You for you help! I live in Texas.