Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Georgia
My homeowner's association is telling me that they have the right to tell me that they can prevent me from replacing pine straw in my pine islands with river rocks. I told them the covenants only appear to cover buildings, additions, fences, and other structures. They responded that river rocks are a structure. I asked how that was possible, and they responded that a structure is defined as "any thing or object, the placement of which upon any Lot may affect the appearance of such Lot." Obviously that wasn't the intent of this language. By this definition, pine straw, mulch, and grass are a "structure" since a blade of grass, for example, is also "things or objects."
Are they overstepping their legal authority, or do they have me by the proverbials by applying this definition of a structure to river rocks?
1 Answer from Attorneys
You have asked everyone here to do the impossible - figure out what a document we have not read says and means.
If this issue matters to you you will need to see a lawyer with the covenants in hand and have the lawyer review them as well as their letters to you.
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