§ 1334. Exclusive right to purchase
(a) For 90 days after giving the notice described in section 1333 of this title, the declarant shall offer to convey each unit or proposed unit occupied for residential use to the tenant who rents that unit. The tenant shall be given all documents provided to the general public or to other tenants as part of the offering for sale of the unit. If a tenant fails to contract for the unit during the offer period, the declarant may not offer an interest in that unit during the following 90 days at a price or on terms more favorable to the offeree than the price or terms offered to the tenant.
(b) If a declarant conveys a unit in violation of section 1333 to a purchaser for value who has no knowledge of the violation, recordation of the deed conveying the unit extinguishes any right a tenant may have to purchase the unit, but does not affect the right of a tenant to recover damages from the declarant.
(c) This section shall not apply to any unit in a conversion building if that unit will be restricted exclusively to nonresidential use or the boundaries of the converted unit do not substantially conform to the dimensions of the residential unit before conversion. (Added 1985, No. 175 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 15 - Condominium Ownership Act
§ 1303. Application of chapter
§ 1304. Status of the apartments or sites
§ 1305. Ownership of apartments or sites
§ 1306. Common areas and facilities
§ 1307. Compliance with covenants, bylaws and administrative provisions
§ 1308. Certain work prohibited
§ 1309. Liens against apartments or sites; removal from lien; effect of part payment
§ 1310. Common profits and expenses
§ 1311. Contents of declaration
§ 1312. Contents of deeds of apartments or sites
§ 1313. Copy of the floor plans to be filed
§ 1316. Termination, dissolution
§ 1320. Books of receipts and expenditures; availability for examination
§ 1321. Waiver of use of common areas and facilities; abandonment of apartment or site
§ 1324. Joint and several liability of grantor and grantee for unpaid common expenses
§ 1326. Disposition of property; destruction or damage
§ 1333. Conversion building; notice to tenants
§ 1334. Exclusive right to purchase
§ 1338. Circumvention of this subchapter
§ 1352. Conversion of mobile home parks permitted
§ 1353. Notice of intent to convert a mobile home park
§ 1356. Leaseholder conversion period
§ 1357. Protection of purchasing leaseholders
§ 1358. Protection of nonpurchasing leaseholders
§ 1360. Stabilization of lot rent
§ 1363. Circumvention of this subchapter