Actually, Elizabeth, there is no statutory requirement to have traditional officers (president, treasurer, secretary) unless the group is also a nonprofit corporation. Rather, those positions are likely required in the bylaws. More importantly, there is room in the statute to accomplish what you are suggesting and the key will be the willingness of the members to both change the bylaws if necessary AND to pay for the services you desire.
First, let’s look at the statute – Title 23 §3101.2 “Call of Meeting” the last sentence reads “Subsequent meetings may be called in the same manner or by a commissioner or board….” Similarly, §4-A. “A road association……through its commissioner or board may address present or future repairs…..” Further, wherever the statute mentions a “board” it also mentions a “commissioner”, including the section on liability. To carry this out, statutory associations are permitted under §5 to budget for and assess “for other costs, including, but not limited to, the cost of liability insurance for the officers, directors and owners and costs of administration.” Would not the cost of a commissioner be an administrative cost – particularly in that you are suggesting hiring an administrator? (commissioner, administrator, Santa Claus whatever) And just think about other costs permitted under the statute: replacing a culvert – would you do so without consulting an engineer to properly design the culvert? Negotiate an easement “which must be recorded” – would you negotiate and record for posterity an easement over a members land without consulting an attorney and assessing for recording costs? The statute gives owners a wide array of possibilities for managing, maintaining and assessing and nothing suggests that all the effort to do so must be voluntary. The key, as I mentioned earlier, is that the owners are willing to pay and the bylaws are accommodating.
So let’s look at the bylaws. I suggest your bylaws be worded with enough latitude to permit owners to elect officers, or a chairperson, or appoint a commissioner as determined by a vote of the owners at its annual meeting. So, really all you need is the willingness to use the statute as it is written and pay for the administration of your road association.
Consider also that under §3121 SOMEONE has to contact contractors to perform maintenance and SOMEONE has to make the effort to send assessment notices and file enforcement actions with the courts and all without the clear guidance provided by statute to those willing to follow the statute.