CommonGround in Maine
Maine HOA compliance, enforced as code
Maine's statutory enforcement procedure ships in CommonGround as a versioned rule set. Every requirement below is enforced as code: the legally correct path is the only path the software allows, and every blocked action comes back with the statute citation.
ME-HOA-SILENCE-2026.06 · Maine (no planned community / HOA act)
ME-CONDO-1603-102-2026.06 · Me. Condominium Act (33 M.R.S. § 1603-102)
Not legal advice. CommonGround provides compliance guidance, not legal advice. The summaries below are generated from CommonGround's versioned Maine rule-set data and require attorney review before you rely on them — consult your association's attorney for legal questions.
What Maine law requires — and how CommonGround enforces it
Planned communities (HOAs)
Maine law leaves the enforcement process to your governing documents — no state statute prescribes the fine notice, cure period, hearing, or dollar caps. CommonGround runs your documents' process with the same statutes-as-code rigor, audit trail, and owner-facing notices: your declaration's notice windows, cure periods, and fine schedule become the workflow, every step is recorded, and every deadline is tracked.
Protected categories screened at intake
33 M.R.S. § 1423 voids post-9/30/2009 'legal instrument' prohibitions on solar energy devices and solar clothes-drying devices; its instrument scope reaches HOA covenants. Enforcement requires recorded attestation. 33 M.R.S. § 1423
- Solar energy device — Solar energy devices protected against post-9/30/2009 instruments. 33 M.R.S. § 1423(1)(A)
- Solar clothes drying device — Solar clothes-drying devices (clotheslines) equally protected. 33 M.R.S. § 1423
In CommonGround: Violation intake screens every new case against Maine's protected categories and flags the citation before a notice ever goes out.
Condominiums
Who decides the fine
Decision body — the board
The board levies reasonable fines after notice and an opportunity to be heard. 33 M.R.S. § 1603-102(a)(11)
In CommonGround: CommonGround routes the fine decision to the board and requires the recorded decision before any fine is assessed.
Notice, opportunity to be heard, and a recorded decision
After notice and an opportunity to be heard, the association may levy reasonable fines for violations of the declaration, bylaws, and rules. No statutory dollar cap, notice contents, or cure period. 33 M.R.S. § 1603-102(a)(11)
In CommonGround: The workflow has no path around it: the notice must be sent, the opportunity to be heard must be offered, and the decision must be recorded — in that order — before a fine can exist.
Protected categories screened at intake
Maine protects solar energy devices and solar clothes-drying devices (clotheslines) against prohibitions in legal instruments adopted/created after September 30, 2009. Reasonable health/safety, building-protection, historic, and shoreland-zoning restrictions allowed. 33 M.R.S. § 1423
- Solar energy device — A post-9/30/2009 instrument may not prohibit installing or using a solar energy device on residential property owned by that person. 33 M.R.S. § 1423(1)(A)
- Solar clothes drying device — Solar clothes-drying devices (clotheslines) equally protected. 33 M.R.S. § 1423
In CommonGround: Violation intake screens every new case against Maine's protected categories and flags the citation before a notice ever goes out.
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