pet ownership limits; planned communities.

Plain English Breakdown

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Pet Ownership Rules for Planned Communities

This bill stops planned community associations from setting limits on pets based on breed, size or weight and allows them to make rules about pet behavior as long as they follow federal, state, and local laws.

What This Bill Does

• It says that a planned community association cannot stop people from having certain types of pets because of the pet's breed, size, or weight.
• Any old rules about limiting pets based on breed, size, or weight are not allowed anymore and can't be enforced.
• Associations can make rules about how pets should behave as long as these rules follow federal, state, and local laws.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who live in planned communities
• Planned community associations

Terms To Know

planned community association

A group that manages a real estate development where the owners of separate homes or units are required to be members and pay fees for maintenance.

community documents

The rules and agreements that govern how a planned community is run, including any restrictions on pet ownership.

Limits and Unknowns

• It does not specify what happens if an association tries to enforce old rules about pets.
• It doesn't explain how associations will decide which pet behavior rules are reasonable and consistent with laws.

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