If you are a board member of a lake community association in Illinois, you have likely faced the challenge of balancing owner enjoyment with protecting the shared use of the lake. But what happens when your declaration and bylaws do not contain express rule-making authority that grants the community association board the power to create rules for the common areas? In Ripsch v. Goose Lake Ass’n, 2013 IL App (3d) 120319, 989 N.E.2d 752, 371 Ill. Dec. 162, 2013 WL 1963923, the Illinois Court of Appeals addressed this question.    Read the article…………………………….