Condo community can tag vehicles with expired plates

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Q: We live in a condominium with 152 units and a homeowners association. We have a homeowner with guests frequenting her home with expired automobile plates on their vehicle, which is a violation. Should the homeowner be responsible for the fine?

A: Although the law may allow the association to fine the homeowner, it is this kind of publicity whereby some legislator will propose a law preventing an association from fining a homeowner as a result of an action by a guest. Take a look at Nevada Revised Statute 116.31031, subsection 2, b, 2. I call it the “Pizza Hut” law. A homeowner was fined because the delivery person was speeding. It took one incident (do you really think this was an ongoing standard practice of associations?) and some legislator jumped in to propose this law.

The association has another choice. If you have a security service or a towing company, the association should authorize security or the towing company to tag the guests’ vehicles that have expired plates. Hopefully, the guests will get the message. It is against state law not to register your vehicle within, I believe, 30 days. By tagging the vehicles and, in essence, threatening to tow the vehicles, you are transferring responsibility to the guests and not to the homeowner who has no real power to register his or her friends’ vehicles.

Q: My question concerns financial reports of an HOA and whether the homeowners (not on the board) can view those records. The HOA meets quarterly with the board meeting (in a closed meeting) in advance of the general membership. During the homeowners’ meeting we are present when bids are opened and discussed, but that is the extent of any financial matters being discussed. We, the homeowners, don’t see anything that would show what we pay for things on a quarterly or annual basis. We would have to rely on remembering how much a bid was. We also don’t