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Attending HOA Meetings in North Dakota
By The HOARebel Team · June 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Decisions that affect your dues, your rules, and your money are made in association meetings — so your right to attend, get notice, and see the minutes matters. In North Dakota, those rights come mostly from the bylaws and the entity law, not from a dedicated open-meetings statute. For your specific situation, a licensed North Dakota attorney is the right resource. This is general information, not legal advice.
No general open-meetings statute for HOAs
North Dakota's open-meetings law applies to public bodies, not to private homeowners associations. The Condominium Ownership of Real Property Act (NDCC ch. 47-04.1) does not impose a detailed meeting-and-notice regime either; what it does is push the rules into the bylaws. Section 47-04.1-07 requires the unit owners or administrative body to "provide by bylaws for the maintenance of common elements ... [and] assessment of expenses," and to make all bylaws and rules "available to every owner of any interest in the project." So the meeting rules a North Dakota owner can actually rely on usually start with the bylaws.
For incorporated associations: the Nonprofit Corporation Act
Most North Dakota associations are incorporated as nonprofits under NDCC ch. 10-33, which supplies the statutory meeting framework: annual and special meetings of members, notice requirements, quorum and voting rules, and the keeping of minutes. The Act also requires the corporation to keep minutes of member, board, and committee meetings — records a member may inspect under § 10-33-80 "for any proper purpose at any reasonable time." For an incorporated HOA, this is the principal source of meeting and notice rights.
What this means in practice
- Notice and agenda. How much notice the board must give, and whether it must publish an agenda, generally come from the bylaws, supplemented by the Nonprofit Corporation Act for incorporated associations.
- Attendance. Members' rights to attend membership meetings come from the bylaws and the entity law; board-meeting access depends on those same sources.
- Minutes. The Nonprofit Corporation Act requires minutes to be kept, and § 10-33-80 makes them inspectable by members — which is how owners reconstruct a decision after the fact.
What owners in North Dakota generally do
People who want a real voice in their association commonly read the bylaws closely for notice and meeting procedures, request meeting minutes and notices, keep their own dated notes of what was decided, and consult a licensed North Dakota attorney when a board appears to be making decisions outside properly noticed meetings.