Violation notice

Section 720.305 never uses the words violation notice. It requires a notice, and Florida Statutes 720.305(2)(b) says what goes in it: "a description of the alleged violation; the specific action required to cure such violation, if applicable; and the hearing date, location, and access information if held by telephone or other electronic means."

• First, the alleged violation: a description of what the board says does not comply with the declaration, the bylaws or the association's rules.
• Second, the specific action required to cure it, a requirement the statute qualifies with the words "if applicable."
• Third, the hearing's date and location, and the access information if the hearing is held by telephone or other electronic means. The owner has the right to attend the hearing by telephone or other electronic means.

The notice goes to the owner "at his or her designated mailing or e-mail address in the association's official records," and it must go at least 14 days before a fine or suspension can be imposed. What those 14 days announce is the right to a hearing. They are not a stated time to fix anything, a distinction taken up under cure period.

A notice about the look of a roof rests on whatever appearance standard the community's own documents set. The statute that bounds that authority is quoted in the Florida rules section of the roof cleaning page.

The same paragraph sets the clock and the panel. Under 720.305(2)(b), the hearing must be held no more than 90 days after the notice is issued, before a committee of at least three members appointed by the board; who may and may not sit on it is set out under hearing. The committee may hold the hearing by telephone or other electronic means.

The fine the notice points toward is bounded in 720.305(2) as well. An association may levy reasonable fines, and the section sets a cap per violation and an aggregate cap for a continuing violation fined by the day, each applying "unless otherwise provided in the governing documents." The section also sets a threshold below which a fine may not become a lien against a parcel. The figures are in the statute's text, listed in the sources below.

What an owner does with a notice in hand, and in what order, belongs to how to respond to an HOA roof cleaning notice, and whether a cleaning changes the fine belongs to whether exterior cleaning can help with an HOA fine. Questions about a particular notice go to the association that sent it, or to an attorney.

A condominium association works under Chapter 718, and its notice rule sits in 718.303(3)(b): no fine or suspension unless the board first gives at least 14 days' written notice and an opportunity for a hearing before a committee of at least three members.

The condominium section differs in the details around that notice. A condominium fine may not become a lien against a unit at all. The caps 718.303(3) sets are written without the Chapter 720 clause that lets governing documents provide otherwise. The payment date after an approved condominium fine is taken up under Chapter 718.