Seriously delinquent homeowners ??

Our HOA as I mentioned is updated and cleaning up it's cc&r's after 20+ years of being in place. One of the new cc&r's that we are adopting states that homeowners who are 3 months behind in dues may not hat access or use of the common amenities, the pool, the wash room etc.

How can this be enforced? We have several homeowners who frequent the pool, and use the laundry room but owe in some cases several years of dues still? ( they are being handled by our atty and some are in the works of foreclosure unfortunately.

At the end of the day Daniel's right. Run the violations through the normal complaint process and tack any assessments on to their bill. If someone's already been foreclosed on there's not much you can do other than say "Stop! Or I'll say Stop again!" The police will treat it as a civil matter and most likely refuse to get involved.

Depending on the type of amenities you offer it might make sense to install some type of access control mechanism. For example you could put a key card reader on the laundry room and disable the card(s) belonging to a suspended member. Could they use someone else's key or piggyback? Sure but you'd have a name/date/time log and could pursue whomever let them in.

Is it worth putting a key card system in just to be able to keep delinquents out? Probably not, but there are added security benefits that might come into consideration as well. For example if there was a reader on the pool gate it could be programmed to automatically lock on the outside at closing time. When I was in school we had to use our key cards to get into the laundry and TV room even though the dorm itself was locked down also. I guess they'd had some vandalism problems in the past caused by non-residents who either snuck in or were legitimate visitors.

Anna,
Please explain: Are you saying in Fa. if the folks that do not contribute to the association in condo, the association can not restrict there access to the amenities? Can a condo restrict the use of the amenities to to someone outside the associations. Do you post private property signs and will the police enforce?

It appears to me there is great discrepancy here between these laws. Not doubting your word, but hasn't this been challenged in the courts? Are you saying, even if you have a passcard system and don't issue cards, you have to do it? What if you didn't?
Lot of questions but new stuff to me. In SC in a condo, we can actually turn off water for non payment. Of course there may be exceptions to this, but they would be exceptions to the rule.

It took a lot of fighting over the years but we, as a condo, can enforce (our no trespassing signs) by informing the trespasser and if/she don't vacant the private property the police will escort them out. We have also caused for a trespasser dumping trash to be banned from the property and a fine was issued.

But none of this works unless you get some stout owner to take on their responsibility. I also think at some point someone is going to sue one of these owners that don't take their responsibility serious, and take the whole non-contributors to court. Owners do have legal obligations to protect the common whole in condos, at least we do, or so I read anyway.