District of Columbia Code
Subchapter III - Control and Governance of Condominiums
§ 42–1903.11. Rights to surplus funds

Unless otherwise provided in the condominium instruments, any surplus funds of the unit owners’ association that remain after payment of or provision for common expenses and any prepayment of reserves shall be paid to the unit owners in proportion to the unit owners’ liabilities for common expenses or credited to the unit owners to reduce the unit owners’ future common expense assessments.
(Mar. 29, 1977, D.C. Law 1-89, title III, § 311, 23 DCR 9532b; Mar. 8, 1991, D.C. Law 8-233, § 2(ee), 38 DCR 261.)
1981 Ed., § 45-1851.
1973 Ed., § 5-1251.

Structure District of Columbia Code

District of Columbia Code

Title 42 - Real Property

Chapter 19 - Condominiums

Subchapter III - Control and Governance of Condominiums

§ 42–1903.01. Bylaws; recordation; unit owners’ association and executive board thereof; powers and duties; officers; amendment and contents thereof; responsibility for insurance on common elements

§ 42–1903.02. Control by declarant; limitations; contracts entered on behalf of unit owners; declarant to act where owners’ association or officers thereof not existent; graduated representation of unit owners in executive board; strict construction

§ 42–1903.03. Meetings; electronic notice

§ 42–1903.04. Meetings — Executive board; quorums

§ 42–1903.05. Allocation of votes within unit owners’ association; vote where more than 1 owner of unit; proxies; majority; provisions not applicable to units owned by association

§ 42–1903.06. Officers; disqualification

§ 42–1903.07. Maintenance, repair, etc., of condominiums; right of access for repair; liability for damages arising from exercise thereof; warranty against structural defects; limitations upon actions; bond or other security

§ 42–1903.08. Unit owners’ associations; powers and rights; deemed attorney-in-fact to grant and accept beneficial easements

§ 42–1903.08a. Condominium Association Advisory Council

§ 42–1903.09. Tort and contract liability of association and declarant; judgment liens against common property and individual units

§ 42–1903.10. Insurance obtained by association; notice to unit owners

§ 42–1903.11. Rights to surplus funds

§ 42–1903.12. Liability for common expenses; special assessments; proportionate liability fixed in bylaws; installment payment of assessments; when assessment past due; interest thereon

§ 42–1903.12a. Notice of intention to take legal action to collect past due amounts

§ 42–1903.13. Lien for assessments against units; priority; recordation not required; enforcement by sale; notice to delinquent owner and public; distribution of proceeds; power of executive board to purchase unit at sale; limitation; costs and attor...

§ 42–1903.14. Books, minutes, and records; inspection

§ 42–1903.15. Limitation on right of first refusal and other restraints on alienation; recordable statement of waiver of rights to be supplied promptly upon request

§ 42–1903.16. Warranty against structural defects; limitation for conversion condominiums; exclusion or modification of warranty

§ 42–1903.17. Statute of limitations for warranties

§ 42–1903.18. Master associations — Authorization; powers; rights and responsibilities of unit owners; election of executive board

§ 42–1903.19. Merger or consolidation of condominiums

§ 42–1903.20. Conveyance or encumbrance of common elements

§ 42–1903.21. Unit owners’ association as trustee