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Section 47-200. - Short title: Common Interest Ownership Act. - This chapter may be cited as the “Common Interest Ownership...
Section 47-201. - Applicability of chapter. - Applicability of this chapter is governed by sections 47-214 to...
Section 47-202. - Definitions. - In the declaration and bylaws, unless specifically provided otherwise or...
Section 47-203. - Variation by agreement and waiver of rights prohibited. Exceptions. - Except as expressly provided in this chapter, its provisions may...
Section 47-204. - Separate titles and taxation. Recording of certificate by cooperative. Conveyance of interest in cooperative. - (a) In a cooperative, a unit owner's interest in a...
Section 47-205. - Applicability of real property use laws to conversion of buildings to common interest ownership. - No zoning, building code, subdivision or other real property use...
Section 47-206. - Eminent domain. - (a) If a unit is acquired by eminent domain or...
Section 47-207. - Supplemental general principles of law applicable. - The principles of law and equity, including the law of...
Section 47-208. - Construction against implicit repeal. - This chapter being a general act intended as a unified...
Section 47-209. - Severability. - If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof...
Section 47-210. - Unconscionable contracts or contract clauses. Leases involving land or facilities in residential common interest communities that are presumed to be unconscionable. - (a) The General Assembly expressly finds that many leases involving...
Section 47-211. - Obligation of good faith. - Every contract or duty governed by this chapter imposes an...
Section 47-212. - Remedies to be liberally administered. - (a) The remedies provided by this chapter shall be liberally...
Section 47-213. - Adjustment of dollar amount. - (a) From time to time the dollar amount specified in...
Section 47-213a. - Relationship of chapter to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. - This chapter modifies, limits and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures...
Section 47-214. - Applicability of chapter and amendments thereto to common interest communities. - Except as provided in section 47-216, the provisions of this...
Section 47-215. - Applicability to nonresidential, mixed use and small common interest communities, limited expense liability planned communities and common interest communities with a conversion building. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section...
Section 47-216. - Applicability to preexisting common interest communities. - (a) Except as provided in section 47-217, sections 47-202, 47-204,...
Section 47-217. - Exception for certain preexisting common interest communities. - (a) If a common interest community created within this state...
Section 47-218. - Applicability to amendments to governing instruments. - (a) The declaration, bylaws or surveys and plans of any...
Section 47-219. - Applicability to out-of-state common interest communities. - This chapter does not apply to common interest communities or...
Section 47-219a. - Arrangements re real property costs. Separate common interest community not created thereby. - (a) An arrangement between the associations for two or more...
Section 47-219b. - Exemption re covenant to share costs or other obligations. - A covenant that requires the owners of twelve or fewer...
Section 47-220. - Creation of common interest community. - (a) A common interest community may be created pursuant to...
Section 47-221. - Unit boundaries. - Except as provided by the declaration: (1) If walls, floors...
Section 47-222. - Construction and validity of declaration, bylaws and rules. Marketability of title. Recording of surveys or plans. - (a) All provisions of the declaration and bylaws are severable....
Section 47-223. - Description of unit. - A description of a unit which sets forth the name...
Section 47-224. - Contents of declaration. - (a) The declaration shall contain: (1) The names of the...
Section 47-225. - Leasehold common interest communities. - (a) Any lease the expiration or termination of which may...
Section 47-226. - Allocation of interests. - (a) The declaration shall allocate to each unit: (1) In...
Section 47-227. - Limited common elements. - (a) Except for the limited common elements described in subdivisions...
Section 47-228. - Surveys and plans. - (a) Surveys and plans are required for condominiums and planned...
Section 47-229. - Exercise of development rights. - (a) To exercise any development right reserved under subdivision (8)...
Section 47-230. - Alterations of units. - Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions...
Section 47-230a. - Display of object on entry door or entry door frame which is motivated by observance of religious practice or belief. Restrictions. - (a) No person may prohibit or hinder the owner, lessee...
Section 47-231. - Relocation of unit boundaries. - (a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration and any...
Section 47-232. - Subdivision of units. - (a) If the declaration expressly so permits, a unit may...
Section 47-233. - Monuments as boundaries. - The existing physical boundaries of a unit or the physical...
Section 47-234. - Use for sales purposes. - A declarant may maintain sales offices, management offices and models...
Section 47-235. - Easement and use rights. - (a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration, a declarant...
Section 47-236. - Amendment of declaration or bylaws. - (a) Except in cases of amendments that may be executed...
Section 47-237. - Termination of common interest community. - (a) Except in the case of a taking of all...
Section 47-238. - Rights of secured lenders. - (a) The declaration may require that all or a specified...
Section 47-239. - Master associations. - (a) If the declaration provides that any of the powers...
Section 47-239a. - Termination and dissolution of master association. Establishment of nonstock corporation. - In the case of a master association: (1) That is...
Section 47-240. - Merger or consolidation of common interest communities. - (a) Any two or more common interest communities of the...
Section 47-241. - Addition of unspecified real property. - In a planned community, if the right is originally reserved...
Section 47-241a. - Master planned communities. - (a) The declaration for a common interest community may state...
Section 47-242. - Addition of land or units to limited equity cooperative. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “limited equity cooperative”...
Section 47-243. - Organization of unit owners' association. - A unit owners' association shall be organized no later than...
Section 47-244. - Powers and duties of unit owners' association. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
Section 47-244a. - Unincorporated unit owners' association's statutory agent for service. - (a) Not later than January 1, 1992, each unit owners'...
Section 47-244b. - Service of process on statutory agent. - (a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any...
Section 47-245. - Executive board members and officers. Duties. Period of declarant control: Delivery of property and documents by declarant; current financial statement. Prohibitions re elections of executive board members. - (a) Except as provided in the declaration, the bylaws, subsection...
Section 47-246. - Transfer of special declarant rights. Obligations and liabilities. - (a) A special declarant right, as defined in subsection (29)...
Section 47-247. - Termination of contracts and leases. - (a) Except in the case of nonresidential common interest communities...
Section 47-248. - Bylaws. - (a) The bylaws of the association shall: (1) Provide the...
Section 47-249. - Upkeep of common interest community. Liability for expenses. - (a) Except to the extent provided by the declaration, subsection...
Section 47-250. - Meetings. Rules. - (a) The following requirements apply to unit owner meetings: (1)...
Section 47-251. - Quorum. - (a) Unless the bylaws otherwise provide, a quorum is present...
Section 47-252. - Voting. Proxies. Ballots. - (a) Unless prohibited or limited by the declaration or bylaws,...
Section 47-253. - Liability. - (a) A unit owner is not liable, solely by reason...
Section 47-254. - Conveyance or encumbrance of common elements. - (a) In a condominium or planned community, portions of the...
Section 47-255. - Insurance. - (a) Commencing not later than the time of the first...
Section 47-256. - Surplus funds. - Unless otherwise provided in the declaration, any surplus funds of...
Section 47-257. - Assessments for common expenses. Assessments due to wilful misconduct, failure to comply with standards or gross negligence. - (a) Until the association makes a common expense assessment, the...
Section 47-258. - Lien for assessments and other sums due association. Enforcements. - (a) The association has a statutory lien on a unit...
Section 47-259. - Other liens. - (a) A judgment for money against the association may be...
Section 47-260. - Association records. Copies. Fees. - (a) An association shall retain the following: (1) Detailed records...
Section 47-261. - Association as trustee. - With respect to a third person dealing with the association...
Section 47-261a. - Basic education program for association members and management. - The executive board of each association of a common interest...
Section 47-261b. - Rules. - (a) At least ten days before adopting, amending or repealing...
Section 47-261c. - Notice to unit owners. - (a) An association shall deliver any notice required to be...
Section 47-261d. - Removal of officers and directors. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the declaration or bylaws to...
Section 47-261e. - Adoption of budgets. Special assessments. Loan agreements. - (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection,...
Section 47-261f. - Litigation involving declarant. - (a) The following requirements apply to an association's authority under...
Section 47-261g. - Electric vehicle charging station in unit parking space or limited common element parking space. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Association”, “bylaws”, “common...
Section 47-262. - Applicability of part. Exceptions to requirement of public offering statement or resale certificate. - (a) Sections 47-262 to 47-281, inclusive, apply to all units...
Section 47-263. - Public offering statement requirements. Liability. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
Section 47-264. - Public offering statement. General provisions and requirements. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
Section 47-265. - Requirements for public offering statement when community is subject to development rights. - If the declaration provides that a common interest community is...
Section 47-266. - Requirements for public offering statement when ownership or occupancy is by time shares. - (a) If the declaration provides that ownership or occupancy of...
Section 47-267. - Requirements for public offering statement when community contains conversion building. - (a) The public offering statement of a common interest community...
Section 47-268. - Requirements for public offering statement when interest in community is security. - If an interest in a common interest community is currently...
Section 47-269. - Purchaser's right to cancel. - (a) A person required to deliver a public offering statement...
Section 47-270. - Resales of units. - (a) Except in the case of a sale in which...
Section 47-271. - Escrow of deposits. Distribution of interest. - (a) Any deposit made in connection with the purchase or...
Section 47-272. - Release of liens. - (a) In the case of a sale of a unit...
Section 47-273. - Rights of tenants in conversion buildings. - The rights of residential tenants in conversion buildings are governed...
Section 47-274. - Express warranties of quality. - (a) Express warranties made by any seller to a purchaser...
Section 47-275. - Implied warranties of quality. - (a) A declarant warrants to a purchaser that a unit...
Section 47-276. - Exclusion or modification of implied warranties of quality. - (a) Except as limited by subsection (b) of this section...
Section 47-277. - Action for breach of warranty. Statute of limitations. - (a) Unless a period of limitation is tolled under section...
Section 47-278. - Cause of action to enforce chapter, declaration or bylaws. Attorney's fees and costs. Alternative dispute resolution. Hearings before executive board. - (a) A declarant, association, unit owner or any other person...
Section 47-279. - Labeling of promotional material. - No promotional material may be displayed or delivered to prospective...
Section 47-280. - Declarant's obligation to complete and restore. - (a) Except for improvements labeled “NEED NOT BE BUILT”, the...
Section 47-281. - Substantial completion of units required. - In the case of a sale of a unit in...
Section 47-282. - Statement of policy. - It is declared that (1) a severe rental housing shortage...
Section 47-283. - Definitions. - For purposes of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive: (1) “Conversion...
Section 47-284. - Conversion tenant's right to conversion notice and public offering statement. - (a) At least nine months before a conversion tenant will...
Section 47-285. - Conversion tenant's right to purchase converted unit. - (a) For the first ninety days after giving a conversion...
Section 47-286. - Conversion tenant's right to terminate lease and abandon unit. - A conversion tenant may, without penalty, terminate an existing lease...
Section 47-287. - Conversion tenant's right to relocation payment. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...
Section 47-288. - Registration of common interest community. Notice to Department of Housing. - (a) If a common interest community contains or will contain...
Section 47-289. - Rent increases of conversion tenants. - (a) During a transition period, a conversion tenant's rent may...
Section 47-290. - Eviction of conversion tenants. - (a) During a transition period, a conversion tenant may be...
Section 47-291. - Unenforceable lease provisions. - Except pursuant to a purchase agreement with the tenant for...
Section 47-292. - Tenant's cause of action. - A tenant who claims to be aggrieved by a violation...
Section 47-293. - Applicability of protection afforded conversion tenants. - (a) The protection provided by sections 47-282 to 47-292, inclusive,...
Section 47-294. - Complaints of violations. Investigations. Enforcement action by Attorney General. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing may receive complaints of any...
Section 47-295. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations, in accordance with...