pet ownership limits; planned communities.

Plain English Breakdown

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HB4017: Limits on Pet Rules in Planned Communities

This law stops planned community associations from banning pets based on breed, size, or weight.

What This Bill Does

• Prohibits associations from limiting household pets by breed, size, or weight.
• Makes any rules that ban specific breeds, sizes, or weights unenforceable even if they were written before this law takes effect.
• Allows associations to create reasonable rules about how pets behave as long as those rules follow federal, state, and local laws.

Who It Names or Affects

• Planned community associations
• Owners of homes, lots, or units within planned communities

Terms To Know

Association

A nonprofit corporation or unincorporated group created to manage a planned community and collect fees from owners.

Planned Community

Real estate development where owners must join an association, pay fees for maintenance, and follow rules set in the declaration.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law does not define exactly what counts as a 'reasonable' rule regarding pet behavior.
• The effective date of the law is not listed in the provided text.

Official Summary Text

HB4017 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

House
: GOV W/D | COM DP 10-0-0-1

HB
4017
: pet ownership limits; planned communities.

Sponsor:
Representative Gress, LD 4

House
Engrossed

Overview

Asserts
a planned community association cannot prohibit or otherwise limit a household
pet by breed, size or weight.

History

An
association
is a nonprofit corporation or
unincorporated association of owners that is created pursuant to a declaration
to own and operate portions of a planned community and that has the power under
the declaration to assess association members to pay the costs and expenses
incurred in the performance of the association's obligations under the
declaration.

A
planned community
is a real estate development that
includes real estate owned and operated by or real estate on which an easement
to maintain roadways or a covenant to maintain roadways is held by a nonprofit
corporation or unincorporated association of owners, that is created for the
purpose of managing, maintaining or improving the property and in which the
declaration expressly states both that the owners of separately owned lots,
parcels or units are mandatory members and that the owners are required to pay
assessments to the association for these purposes (
A.R.S. �
33-1802
).

Provisions

1.

Declares a
planned community association cannot prohibit or otherwise limit a household
pet by breed, size or weight. (Sec. 1)

2.

Asserts any
provisions prohibited by the pet restriction are unenforceable without regard
to whether they were adopted or enacted before the effective date of this act.
(Sec. 1)

3.

Authorizes a
planned community association to adopt reasonable rules regarding pet behavior
that are consistent with federal, state and local laws. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB4017 - 572R - H Ver

House Engrossed

pet ownership limits;
planned communities.

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 4017

AN
ACT

amending title 33, chapter 16, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 33-1816.01; relating to planned
communities.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 33, chapter 16, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 33-1816.01, to read:

START_STATUTE
33-1816.01.

Pets; ownership limits prohibited; rules

A. NOTWITHSTANDING any provision in
the community documents, an association shall not prohibit or otherwise limit a
household pet by breed, size or weight.� Any provisions prohibited by this
subsection are unenforceable without regard to whether the provisions were
adopted or enacted before the effective date of this section.

B. An association may adopt
reasonable rules regarding pet behavior that are CONSISTENT with federal, state
and local laws.
END_STATUTE