Resident Right to Organize, Meet and Post Signs

Important rights that the Residency Law protects include those to meet and form organizations. Park rules, rental agreements and managers must allow residents to:

• Meet in the park at reasonable hours and in a reasonable manner;
• Meet in the clubhouse when it’s not being used;
•  Invite public officials, candidates, or representatives of homeowner associations to speak; and 
• Talk and distribute information to home owners, door-to-door for noncommercial purposes at reasonable hours and in a reasonable manner.

One or more park residents can host resident organization meetings in the Park clubhouse. Park managers cannot charge home owners a cleaning deposit before the event. All home owners should be allowed to attend. Guests from outside the park may attend. Resident organizations must adhere to vehicle parking restrictions and maximum occupancy restrictions.

In general, park managers cannot require the meeting organizers to obtain liability insurance. If alcoholic beverages are served, managers may require a liability insurance binder or park rules may prohibit consumption of alcoholic beverages. 

Residents may post political campaign signs in the window or on the side of their homes. The size may not exceed six square feet. Political signs generally may be put up ninety days prior to an election and taken down fifteen days after the election.

Civil Code Section 798.51.

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