These are our Articles of Incorporation: It is a short legal document filed with the state that officially creates the HOA as a nonprofit corporation.
It is one of several level legal documents that typically stack in the following order.
- State and federal law
- Articles of Incorporation
- Declaration/Covenants/CC&Rs
- Bylaws
- Policies, Rules, Regulations, and Resolutions
If two documents conflict, the one higher in the stack usually wins.