Amending your governing documents isn’t always the easiest thing to do because it requires a vote by unit owners in condos and the proprietary lease in coops. An amendment to the governing documents is probably necessary for an e-bike ban, and can’t be handled by a board change to the condo’s rules and regulations or coop’s house rules. Opponents of the rule would argue that an e-bike ban is no different than a smoking or pet ban in a building which need to be done by governing document amendments. They would be correct that amending the governing documents makes it a certainty until the owners decide to change the governing documents again. Rule changes can be made by a board vote and thus when the board changes, the new board could easily change the rule. That’s not the case with a governing document change.

So what’s a board to do regarding an e-bike ban. If a governing document change is possible then the board could try that. If it imposes the change by a rule amendment by the board alone, it could be subject to challenge.