Kansas HOA laws & resources.

Laws & regulations impacting Kansas associations.

Kansas layers a modern common-interest act over older, opt-in condominium and townhouse laws, alongside its civil-rights statutes — together with the federal laws that apply nationwide. HOPB hosts the full text of every one of these Kansas statutes, each with a plain-language guide.

Kansas HOA Law Guide Browse every statute we host in full — the Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act, the Apartment and Townhouse ownership acts, the Act Against Discrimination, and the Rights of Persons With Disabilities — grouped by role, with the official text and a plain-language guide for each.

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

• A modern act sits over older, opt-in ones. The Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act (KUCIOBORA) is Kansas's modern, comprehensive community-association law — open board meetings, records, voting, budgets, and enforcement — but it applies only to communities with 12 or more units that may be used for residential purposes — in full to those created after January 1, 2011, and prospectively to those created before, where a declaration or bylaw contrary to a mandatory provision of the act becomes unenforceable as to later events. A condominium or townhouse project of that size is covered by both KUCIOBORA and its own older act: the Apartment Ownership Act's bylaw and records sections are expressly made subject to KUCIOBORA (§§ 58-3119, 58-3120), and KUCIOBORA prevails in any conflict (§ 58-4622). Below that threshold, a condominium may opt into the Apartment Ownership Act and a townhouse project into the Townhouse Ownership Act, but only by recording a declaration that expressly submits the property to that act — and only if the units qualify, since condominium units are spaces within a building (§ 58-3102(a)) and townhouse units are single-family homes joined by a common wall, roof or foundation and expressly not apartments (§ 58-3702(a)). A small subdivision of detached homes falls under neither act: it runs on its recorded covenants and corporate law. Most associations are organized as nonprofit corporations under the Kansas General Corporation Code (K.S.A. 17-6001 et seq., article 60 of chapter 17), and a townhouse association must be one (§ 58-3702(c)).
• Civil rights reach housing and disability. The Kansas Act Against Discrimination bars housing discrimination based on race, religion, color, sex, disability, familial status, national origin, or ancestry, requires reasonable accommodations, and even requires an HOA to remove discriminatory covenants from its documents (§ 44-1017a) — enforced by the Kansas Human Rights Commission. The Rights of Persons With Disabilities law — whose core sections the statutes cite as the Kansas white cane law (§ 39-1106) — adds equal access to public accommodations (§ 39-1101) and guide-, hearing- and service-dog rights that expressly reach the rental and purchase of residential housing, at no extra charge (§§ 39-1102, 39-1107, 39-1108).
• Around the edges. Solar easements (K.S.A. 58-3801), the three statutes that void a covenant outright — political yard signs (§ 58-3820), transfer fee covenants (§ 58-3822) and discriminatory covenants (§ 58-2274) — the volunteer immunity for uncompensated board members (§ 60-3611), the corporate code an association runs on, and debt collection under the federal FDCPA and the Kansas Consumer Protection Act — plus the laws people wrongly assume apply, like the Open Records and Open Meetings acts — are collected on the related-laws page.

Find HOA contact information & documents.

• The Kansas Secretary of State business search — visit HOPB's HOA Directory and select Kansas, or search the Business Entity Search directly, to 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 — for a community governed by the Kansas Uniform Common Interest Owners Bill of Rights Act, unit owners have the right to inspect most association records on 10 days' written notice that reasonably identifies the records requested — subject to eight narrow exceptions such as personnel files, attorney-client material, pending litigation and other owners' unit files (§ 58-4616) — and board meetings must be open to owners except during a properly called executive session (§ 58-4612). Condominium owners have a similar right to examine the association's records under the Apartment Ownership Act (§ 58-3120).
• HOA documents — the association's Declaration of Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions (CC&Rs), amendments, bylaws, lien notices, plats, maps, and deeds can be found through the county register of deeds where the association is located (search under the community name), and property information is available on the Kansas Parcel Map. Recording is what makes a declaration binding on later purchasers and mortgagees — a recorded instrument imparts notice to everyone (K.S.A. 58-2222), while an unrecorded one binds only the parties to it and anyone with actual notice (K.S.A. 58-2223). For condominiums and townhouses, recording the declaration is also what submits the property to the Apartment or Townhouse Ownership Act in the first place (K.S.A. 58-3103, 58-3703).