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You want to check out the bylaws to see if the HOA did what ours did which was to abjure the extension of association bylaws into areas already governed by county ordinance or state law.

My POA has tried to fool with enforcing certain association by-laws and has gotten ignored or slapped down. Sheriffs most don't care what happens on private property unless it reaches felony status. The county doesn't take sides if anyone from the POA stands up against a POA decision; they ask for the POA to sort it out amongst themselves. The board has gradually come to realize that the owners are not going to tolerate partial enforcement and full enforcement is impossible, therefore there is no enforcement (of controversial covenants).

The easiest thing to do in Fairfax is adhere to the sign ordinance and the grass ordinance ~ we also have a pigeon ordinance (bet you weren't aware of that one). Persian fellow in the neighborhood bought in before he realized he couldn't keep a flock of pigeons in R8/R5 zoning ~ after we took him to court with a civil suit he bought somewhere else!

Last place to go to on a covenant violation is the cops ~ you really need to go to court first ~ after consulting with the miscreant.

The pigeon guy actually went to the cops about neighbors killing his birds ~ which is how we found out about the flock.