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CT Gen Stat § 47-241 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-241 - Addition of unspecified real property.

 In a planned community, if the right is originally reserved in the declaration, the declarant, in addition to any other development right, may amend the declaration at any time during as many years as are specified in the declaration to add additional real property to the planned community without describing the location of that real property in the original declaration; but the amount of real property added to the planned community pursuant to this section may not exceed ten per cent of the real property described in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 47-224 and the declarant may not in any event increase the number of units in the planned community beyond the number stated in the original declaration pursuant to subdivision (5) of said subsection.(P.A. 83-474, S. 42, 96; P.A. 84-472, S. 11, 23.)History: P.A. 84-472 replaced “for adding” with “to add”.
CT Gen Stat § 47-241a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-241a - Master planned communities.

 (a) The declaration for a common interest community may state that it is a master planned community if the declarant has reserved the development right to create at least five hundred units that may be used for residential purposes, and at the time of the reservation such declarant owns or controls more than five hundred acres on which the units may be built.(b) If the requirements of subsection (a) of this section are satisfied, the declaration for the master planned community need not state a maximum number of units and need not contain any of the information required by subdivisions (3) to (14), inclusive, of subsection (a) of section 47-224 until the declaration is amended under subsection (c) of this section.(c) When each unit in a master planned community is conveyed to a purchaser, the declaration must contain (1) a sufficient legal description of the unit and all portions of the master planned community in which any other units have been conveyed to a purchaser, and (2) all the information required by subdivisions (3) to (14), inclusive, of subsection (a) of section 47-224 with respect to that real property.(d) The only real property in a master planned community which is subject to this chapter are units that have been declared or which are being offered for sale and any other real property described pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. Other real property that is or may become part of the master planned community is not subject to the provisions of this chapter but is subject to any other restrictions and limitations that appear of record.(e) If the public offering statement conspicuously identifies the fact that the community is a master planned community, the disclosure requirements contained in sections 47-262 to 47-281, inclusive, apply only with respect to units that have been declared or are being offered for sale in connection with the public offering statement and to the real property described pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.(f) Limitations in this chapter on the addition of unspecified real property do not apply to a master planned community.(g) The common interest community loses its status as a master planned community if the aggregate amount of land which is either subject to the declaration or owned or contractually controlled by the declarant ceases to total at least five hundred acres.(h) The period of declarant control of the association for a master planned community terminates in accordance with any conditions specified in the declaration or otherwise at the time the declarant, in a recorded instrument and after giving notice in a record to all unit owners, voluntarily surrenders all rights to control the activities of the association.(P.A. 95-187, S. 15; P.A. 09-225, S. 18.)History: P.A. 09-225 added Subsec. (h) re termination of declarant control, effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-242 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-242 - Addition of land or units to limited equity cooperative.

 (a) For the purposes of this section, “limited equity cooperative” means a cooperative whose declaration contains any restrictions on (1) the amount for which a unit may be sold, or (2) the amount that may be received by a unit owner on the (A) sale or condemnation of, or casualty loss to, the unit or to the common interest community, (B) termination of the common interest community, or (C) abandonment or other termination of a unit owner's or tenant's right of occupancy of a unit.(b) The declaration of a limited equity cooperative may provide, notwithstanding the requirements of subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 47-224, that the declaration may be amended by vote or agreement of unit owners of units to which at least sixty-seven per cent of the votes in the association are allocated, to add land and units to the cooperative, even though the land and units were not described in the original declaration.(c) If the declaration of a limited equity cooperative is amended pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to add land or units, the amendment shall comply with sections 47-229 and 47-236; provided (1) the amendment may reallocate the allocated interests among all the units in any reasonable manner which has been approved by the vote or agreement of unit owners; and (2) the amendment shall contain a legally sufficient description of the real property added to the cooperative.(P.A. 83-474, S. 43, 96.)Cited. 228 C. 498.
CT Gen Stat § 47-243 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-243 - Organization of unit owners' association.

 A unit owners' association shall be organized no later than the date the first unit in the common interest community is conveyed. The membership of the association at all times shall consist exclusively of all unit owners or, following termination of the common interest community, of all former unit owners entitled to distributions of proceeds under section 47-237 or their heirs, successors or assigns. The association shall have an executive board. The association shall be organized as a business or nonstock corporation, trust, partnership or unincorporated association.(P.A. 83-474, S. 44, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 19.)History: P.A. 09-225 provided that association shall have an executive board and substituted “business or nonstock corporation” for “profit or nonprofit corporation”, effective July 1, 2010.Cited. 208 C. 318.Cited. 38 CA 420; 44 CA 107. Trial court found that executive board of condominium association was constituted properly. 102 CA 245.
CT Gen Stat § 47-244b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-244b - Service of process on statutory agent.

 (a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any action or proceeding required or permitted by law to be served upon a unit owners' association which is subject to the provisions of section 47-244a may be served upon the association's statutory agent for service by any proper officer or other person lawfully empowered to make service.(b) If it appears from the records of the Secretary of the State that such a unit owners' association has failed to appoint or maintain a statutory agent for service, or if it appears by affidavit attached to the process, notice or demand of the officer or other proper person directed to serve any process, notice or demand upon such an association's statutory agent for service appearing on the records of the Secretary of the State that such agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found at the address shown on such records as the agent's address, service of such process, notice or demand on such association may, when timely made, be made by such officer or other proper person by: (1) Leaving a true and attested copy thereof together with the required fee at the office of the Secretary of the State or depositing the same in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such office, and (2) depositing in the United States mails, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, a true and attested copy thereof, together with a statement by such officer or person that service is being made pursuant to this section, addressed to such association at its principal office.(c) The Secretary of the State shall file the copy of each process, notice or demand received by him as provided in subsection (b) of this section and keep a record of the day and hour of such receipt. Service made as provided in this section shall be effective as of such day and hour.(d) Nothing herein contained shall limit or affect the right to serve any process, notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon a unit owners' association in any other manner now or hereafter permitted by law.(P.A. 91-341, S. 17, 19.)
CT Gen Stat § 47-247 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-247 - Termination of contracts and leases.

 (a) Except in the case of nonresidential common interest communities as provided in section 47-215, if entered into before the executive board elected by the unit owners pursuant to subsection (f) of section 47-245 takes office, the association may terminate without penalty upon not less than ninety days' notice to the other party any of the following: (1) Any management, maintenance, operations or employment contract or lease of recreational or parking areas or facilities; or (2) any other contract or lease between the association and a declarant or an affiliate of a declarant; or (3) any contract or lease that is not bona fide or was unconscionable or commercially unreasonable to the unit owners at the time entered into under the circumstances then prevailing.(b) This section does not apply to: (1) Any lease the termination of which would terminate the common interest community or reduce its size, unless the real property subject to that lease was included in the common interest community for the purpose of avoiding the right of the association to terminate a lease under this section, or (2) a proprietary lease.(P.A. 83-474, S. 48, 96; P.A. 95-187, S. 19; P.A. 09-225, S. 23; P.A. 10-186, S. 9.)History: P.A. 95-187 amended Subsec. (a) to add exception for nonresidential common interest communities; P.A. 09-225 rewrote and reorganized provisions in Subsec. (a) re termination of contracts, added maintenance and operations contracts in Subsec. (a)(1) and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 10-186 made technical changes in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2010.Section did not apply to circumstances of case and court did not improperly conclude that lease was not unconscionable or commercially unreasonable. 110 CA 88.
CT Gen Stat § 47-248 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-248 - Bylaws.

 (a) The bylaws of the association shall: (1) Provide the number of members of the executive board and the titles of the officers of the association; (2) unless otherwise specified in the declaration, provide for election by either the executive board or the unit owners of a president, treasurer, secretary and any other officers of the association the bylaws specify; (3) specify the qualifications, powers and duties, terms of office and manner of electing and removing executive board members and officers and filling vacancies; (4) specify the powers the executive board or officers may delegate to other persons or to a managing agent; (5) specify the officers who may prepare, execute, certify and record amendments to the declaration on behalf of the association; (6) specify a method for amending the bylaws; (7) contain any provision necessary to satisfy requirements in this chapter or the declaration concerning meetings, voting, quorums and other activities of the association; and (8) provide for any matter required by the law of this state other than this chapter, which is not inconsistent with this chapter, to appear in the bylaws of organizations of the same type as the association.(b) Subject to the declaration and this chapter, the bylaws may provide for any other necessary or appropriate matters including matters that could be adopted as rules.(P.A. 83-474, S. 49, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 24; P.A. 10-186, S. 22.)History: P.A. 09-225 reorganized Subsec. (a) and added therein Subdiv. (7) re provisions necessary re meetings, voting, quorums and other activities of association and Subdiv. (8) re any matter required by law of state other than chapter, and amended Subsec. (b) to reference chapter and rewrite provisions re necessary and appropriate matters, effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 10-186 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to allow election by either executive board or unit owners, rather than only executive board, unless otherwise specified in the declaration, effective July 1, 2010.Cited. 208 C. 318.Cited. 38 CA 420.
CT Gen Stat § 47-249 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-249 - Upkeep of common interest community. Liability for expenses.

 (a) Except to the extent provided by the declaration, subsection (b) of this section or subsection (h) of section 47-255, the association is responsible for maintenance, repair and replacement of the common elements, and each unit owner is responsible for maintenance, repair and replacement of his unit. Each unit owner shall afford to the association and the other unit owners, and to their agents or employees, access through his unit reasonably necessary for those purposes. If damage is inflicted on the common elements or on any unit through which access is taken, the unit owner responsible for the damage, or the association if it is responsible, is liable for the prompt repair thereof.(b) In addition to the liability that a declarant as a unit owner has under this chapter, the declarant alone is liable for all expenses in connection with real property subject to development rights. No other unit owner and no other portion of the common interest community is subject to a claim for payment of those expenses. Unless the declaration provides otherwise, any income or proceeds from real property subject to development rights inures to the declarant.(c) In a planned community, if all development rights have expired with respect to any real property, the declarant remains liable for all expenses of that real property unless, on expiration, the declaration provides that the real property becomes common elements or units.(P.A. 83-474, S. 50, 96.)Cited. 207 C. 441; 208 C. 318.Cited. 38 CA 420.
CT Gen Stat § 47-251 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-251 - Quorum.

 (a) Unless the bylaws otherwise provide, a quorum is present throughout any meeting of the unit owners if persons entitled to cast twenty per cent of the votes in the association are present in person or by proxy at the beginning of the meeting.(b) Unless the bylaws specify a larger number, a quorum of the executive board is present for purposes of determining the validity of any action taken at a meeting of the executive board only if individuals entitled to cast a majority of the votes on that board are present at the time a vote regarding that action is taken. If a quorum is present when a vote is taken, the affirmative vote of a majority of the board members present is the act of the executive board unless a greater vote is required by the declaration or bylaws.(P.A. 83-474, S. 52, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 26.)History: P.A. 09-225 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “otherwise provide” for “provide otherwise” and “unit owners” for “association” re meeting, and apply 20% requirement to votes in the association, rather than votes that may be cast for election of board, and amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “number” for “percentage” and “majority” for “fifty per cent”, add “executive board” re quorum and add provisions re validity of action and quorum at time vote is taken, effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-256 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-256 - Surplus funds.

 Unless otherwise provided in the declaration, any surplus funds of the association remaining after payment of or provision for common expenses and any prepayment of reserves shall be paid annually to the unit owners in proportion to their common expense liabilities or credited to them to reduce their future common expense assessments.(P.A. 83-474, S. 57, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 30.)History: P.A. 09-225 inserted “annually” re payment of surplus funds, effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-261 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-261 - Association as trustee.

 With respect to a third person dealing with the association in the association's capacity as a trustee, the existence of trust powers and their proper exercise by the association may be assumed without inquiry. A third person is not bound to inquire whether the association has power to act as trustee or is properly exercising trust powers. A third person, without actual knowledge that the association is exceeding or improperly exercising its powers, is fully protected in dealing with the association as if it possessed and properly exercised the powers it purports to exercise. A third person is not bound to assure the proper application of trust assets paid or delivered to the association in its capacity as trustee.(P.A. 83-474, S. 62, 96.)
CT Gen Stat § 47-261a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-261a - Basic education program for association members and management.

 The executive board of each association of a common interest community, or an officer designated by the executive board, shall encourage each member of such association, including the officers and members of the executive board, and any managing agent of such association or person providing association management services to such association, to attend, when available, a basic education program concerning the purpose and operation of common interest communities and associations, and the rights and responsibilities of unit owners, associations and executive board officers and members. The executive board, or any such designated officer, may arrange to have any such program conducted by a private entity at a time and place convenient to a majority of the members of such association. All or part of any fees for such program may be designated as a common expense of the association and paid from association funds in such manner as may be determined by the executive board and approved by the association, consistent with the bylaws of the association and this chapter.(P.A. 06-23, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 47-261c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-261c - Notice to unit owners.

 (a) An association shall deliver any notice required to be given by the association under this chapter to any mailing or electronic mail address a unit owner designates, except that the association may also deliver notices by: (1) Hand delivery to each unit owner; (2) hand delivery, United States mail postage paid, or commercially reasonable delivery service to the mailing address of each unit; (3) electronic means, if the unit owner has given the association an electronic address; or (4) any other method reasonably calculated to provide notice to the unit owner.(b) Notices required to be given by the association under this chapter are effective when sent. The ineffectiveness of a good faith effort to deliver notice by an authorized means does not invalidate action taken at or without a meeting.(P.A. 09-225, S. 35; P.A. 10-186, S. 16.)History: P.A. 09-225 effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 10-186 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “Notices required to be given by the association under this chapter” for provision re notices required by enumerated sections, effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-261d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-261d - Removal of officers and directors.

 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the declaration or bylaws to the contrary, unit owners present in person or by proxy at any meeting of the unit owners at which a quorum is present, or voting by ballot pursuant to subsection (d) of section 47-252, may remove any member of the executive board or any officer elected by the unit owners, with or without cause, if the number of votes cast in favor of removal exceeds the number of votes cast in opposition to removal, except that: (1) A member appointed by the declarant may not be removed by a vote of the unit owners during the period of declarant control; (2) a member appointed under subsection (g) of section 47-245 may be removed only by the person that appointed that member; and (3) the unit owners may not consider whether to remove a member of the executive board or an officer elected by the unit owners at a meeting of the unit owners unless that subject was listed in the notice of the meeting or in the notice of the vote by ballot.(b) At any meeting at which a vote to remove a member of the executive board or an officer is to be taken, the member or officer being considered for removal must have a reasonable opportunity to speak before the vote is taken. If the vote is taken by ballot pursuant to subsection (d) of section 47-252, the member or officer being considered for removal shall be given a reasonable opportunity to deliver information to the unit owners as provided in said subsection.(P.A. 09-225, S. 36; P.A. 10-186, S. 17.)History: P.A. 09-225 effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 10-186 made technical changes, effective July 1, 2010.