A property owners’ association must give members notice when it is seeking people to serve on an architectural review authority, and the notice has to meet timing and content rules.
Sec. 209.00507. SOLICITATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AUTHORITY. (a) This section applies only to an architectural review authority to which Section 209.00505 applies. (b) Not later than the 10th day before the date a property owners' association or board takes action to elect or appoint or meets to elect or appoint a person to serve on the architectural review authority, the association must provide notice to the association members soliciting persons interested in serving on the architectural review authority. (c) The notice required under Subsection (b) must: (1) be provided: (A) by mail to each owner; or (B) by: (i) posting the notice in a conspicuous manner reasonably designed to provide notice to property owners' association members: (a) in a place located on the association's common property or, with the property owner's consent, on other conspicuously located privately owned property within the subdivision; or (b) on any Internet website maintained by the association or other Internet media; and (ii) sending the notice by e-mail to each owner who has registered an e-mail address with the property owners' association; and (2) contain instructions for a person to notify the property owners' association of the person's interest in serving on the architectural review authority, including the date by which the person's notification must be received by the association. (d) The date established by a property owners' association under Subsection (c)(2) by which notification of a person's interest in serving on the architectural review authority must be received by the association may not be a date earlier than the 10th day after the date the association provides the notice described by Subsection (c). Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 10 (S.B. 711), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2025.