Meetings & GovernanceMS
Attending HOA Meetings in Mississippi
By The HOARebel Team · May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
The decisions that affect your home — budgets, rules, assessments — often get made at board meetings. In Mississippi, the rules about those meetings sit in two places at once, because the state has no general HOA statute to consolidate them. For your specific situation, a licensed Mississippi attorney is the right resource. This is general information, not legal advice.
The Nonprofit Corporation Act for incorporated HOAs
Most Mississippi HOAs are incorporated as nonprofits under the Mississippi Nonprofit Corporation Act (§ 79-11-101 et seq.), which means the corporate-law layer supplies many of the meeting and notice rules. The Act typically addresses:
- Annual member meetings and special meetings
- Notice to members (timing, content, method of delivery)
- Quorum and voting requirements
- Member votes by written ballot, where permitted
- Minutes as corporate records (inspectable under § 79-11-285)
For HOAs that are not incorporated — less common, but they exist — these protections come from general contract and association law and the documents.
The bylaws fill in the detail
The bylaws typically govern board meetings — how often, the notice required, whether owners can attend, and how owners can speak. For HOAs that are corporations, the bylaws sit on top of (and have to be consistent with) the Nonprofit Corporation Act.
For condominiums
Condominiums add the Mississippi Condominium Law (§ 89-9) on top of everything above. The Condominium Law's primary focus is on the property regime, with corporate governance still running through the Nonprofit Corporation Act for incorporated condo associations.
Why notice is the leverage point
Notice exists so owners can attend and participate before a decision is locked in. When a board adopts a rule, approves a budget, or raises assessments at a meeting that members were never properly noticed of — under the bylaws or the Nonprofit Corporation Act — the lack of notice is often the first thing a homeowner or attorney examines.
Minutes are records you can get
If you couldn't attend, the minutes show what happened. For incorporated HOAs, § 79-11-285 gives members the right to inspect and copy corporate records — including minutes. Requesting minutes is a common move when a board action seems to have appeared from nowhere.
If meetings are closed or unnoticed
When an owner believes the board is meeting without the notice the documents or corporate law require, the options include raising it with the board in writing, requesting minutes that would show what happened, and consulting a licensed Mississippi attorney about whether the applicable rules — the bylaws and § 79-11 for incorporated HOAs — were followed.