To adopt or amend rules and regulations, the board must call a meeting of the unit owners for the purpose of discussing the proposed rules and regulations. Each unit owner should receive notice of the meeting including the full text of the proposed rules and regulations. No quorum is required at the meeting of the unit owners unless the governing documents of the association require it. At the meeting, the unit owners do not have the power to vote to accept or deny the rules and regulations. The owners only have the right to discuss them. After the meeting (or at the end of the meeting) to discuss the proposed rules, the board may adopt the rules and regulations. In practice, this system is very effective because most boards will not adopt rules and regulations against the wishes of the unit owners, and almost always they amend or delete some portion of proposed rules in response to objections raised by the membership.

The Condominium Property Act states that no rule or regulation may impair any rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States or Section 4 of Article I of the Illinois Constitution. Although it would be impossible for an association to violate first amendment rights (since it is not a governmental agency) the general understanding of this provision is that rules and regulations may not impair free speech or prevent political activity within the association. Rules and regulations also may not conflict with the provisions of the Condominium Property Act or the association's governing documents. The rules must be reasonably related to the genuine and legitimate purposes of the association and they must be fairly and uniformly applied to the unit owners.