Indiana HOA laws & resources.

Laws & regulations impacting Indiana associations.

Indiana is one of the states with a dedicated homeowners-association statute, alongside a condominium act, the nonprofit corporate code most associations run on, and the state fair-housing law — together with the federal laws that apply nationwide. HOPB hosts the full text of every one of these Indiana statutes, each with a plain-language guide.

Three things are worth knowing about how Indiana's HOA law works:

• Indiana has a Homeowners Associations Act and a separate Condominium Act. The Indiana Homeowners Associations Act (IC 32-25.5) governs how an HOA budgets and keeps records open to members, the right to attend board meetings, voting and proxies, board elections, amending the governing documents, and fines. It applies in full to an association established after June 30, 2009 that can impose mandatory dues (an older association may elect to be governed by it), but a core set of protections applies to every Indiana HOA regardless (IC 32-25.5-1-1). Condominiums are governed by the Indiana Condominium Act (IC 32-25). Most associations are also nonprofit corporations under the Indiana Nonprofit Corporation Act (IC 23-17), which supplies their membership, meeting, voting, and records rules.
• Fair housing is a state law as well as a federal one. The Indiana Fair Housing Act (IC 22-9.5) bars housing discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability, or national origin, and requires reasonable modifications and accommodations for people with disabilities — the provisions behind assistance-animal and accessibility requests. Indiana also has dedicated disability-housing and emotional-support-animal provisions (IC 22-9-6, IC 22-9-7).
• Homeowner protections & scattered provisions. The Homeowners Associations Act itself protects a member's right to install a solar-energy system and an amateur-radio antenna (IC 32-25.5-3.5, 32-25.5-3.4). Other provisions that can reach a community — political-sign display around elections (IC 32-21-13) and the subdivision HOA assessment lien (IC 32-28-14), among others — plus the laws people wrongly assume apply (like the Open Door Law) are collected on the related-laws page.

Find HOA contact information & documents.

• The Indiana Secretary of State — information on elections, businesses, and securities. Visit HOPB's HOA Directory and select Indiana to reach the state's Business Search, where the public can find an association's corporate status, active board members, registered agent, and corporate documents such as the articles of incorporation, by searching under the community or subdivision's name.
• Association records — members have a right to inspect the association's records. The Homeowners Associations Act makes association records available to members and gives them the right to attend board meetings (IC 32-25.5-3-3); the Condominium Act requires financial records to be available to co-owners and lets them attend board meetings (IC 32-25-8-8, 32-25-8-2.5); and the Nonprofit Corporation Act gives members a right to inspect and copy the corporation's records (IC 23-17-27).
• HOA documents — the association's Declaration of Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions (CC&Rs), amendments, bylaws, lien notices, plats, maps, and other community documents can be found by visiting the county recorder's office in the county where the association is located. The CC&Rs must be recorded with the county land records to be enforceable.