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V.I. Code tit. 28, § 905 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 905. Common areas and facilities

 (a) Each apartment owner shall be entitled to an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities in the percentage expressed in the declaration. Such percentage shall be computed by taking as a basis the value of the apartment in relation to the value of the property. (b) The percentage of the undivided interest of each apartment owner in the common areas and facilities as expressed in the declaration shall have a permanent character and shall not be altered without the consent of all of the apartment owners expressed in an amended declaration duly recorded. The percentage of the undivided interest in the common areas and facilities shall not be separated from the apartment to which it appertains and shall be deemed to be conveyed or encumbered with the apartment even though such interest is not expressly mentioned or described in the conveyance or other instrument. (c) The common areas and facilities shall remain undivided and no apartment owner or any other person shall bring any action for partition or division of any part thereof, unless the property has been removed from the provisions of this chapter as provided in sections 915 and 925 of this title. Any covenant to the contrary shall be null and void. (d) Each apartment owner may use the common areas and facilities in accordance with the purposes for which they were intended; without hindering or encroaching upon the lawful rights of the other apartment owners. (e) The necessary work of maintenance, repair and replacement of the common areas and facilities and the making of any additions or improvements thereto shall be carried out only as provided herein and in the bylaws. (f) The Association of Apartment Owners shall have the irrevocable right, to be exercised by the manager or Board of Directors, to have access to each apartment from time to time during reasonable hours, as may be necessary for the maintenance, repair or replacement of any of the common areas and facilities therein or accessible therefrom, or for making emergency repairs therein necessary to prevent damage to the common areas and facilities or to another apartment or apartments.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 906 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 906. Compliance with covenants, bylaws and administrative provisions

 Each apartment owner shall comply strictly with the bylaws and the administrative rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, as either of the same may be lawfully amended from time to time, and with the covenants, conditions and restrictions set forth in the declaration or in the deed to his apartment. Failure to comply with any of the same shall be ground for an action to recover sums due, for damages or injunctive relief or both maintainable by the manager or Board of Directors on behalf of the Association of Apartment Owners or, in a proper case, by an aggrieved apartment owner.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 907 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 907. Certain work prohibited

 No apartment owner shall do any work which would jeopardize the soundness or safety of the property, reduce the value thereof or impair any easement or hereditament without in every such case the unanimous consent of all the other apartment owners being first obtained.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 908 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 908. Liens against apartments; removal from lien; effect of part payment

 (a) Subsequent to recording the declaration as provided in this chapter, and while the property remains subject to this chapter, no lien shall thereafter arise or be effective against the property. During such period liens or encumbrances shall arise or be created only against such apartment and the percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities, appurtenant to such apartment, in the same manner and under the same conditions in every respect as liens or encumbrances may arise or be created upon or against any other separate parcel of real property subject to individual ownership; Provided, That no labor performed or materials furnished with the consent or at the request of an apartment owner or his agent or his contractor or subcontractor shall be the basis for the filing of a lien pursuant to applicable law against the apartment or any other property of any other apartment owner not expressly consenting to or requesting the same, except that such express consent shall be deemed to be given by the owner of any apartment in the case of emergency repairs thereto. Labor performed or materials furnished for the common areas and facilities, if duly authorized by the Association of Apartment Owners, the manager or Board of Directors in accordance with this chapter, the declaration or bylaws, shall be deemed to be performed or furnished with the express consent of each apartment owner and shall be the basis for the filing of a lien pursuant to applicable law against each of the apartments and shall be subject to the provisions of subparagraph (b) of this section. (b) In the event a lien against two or more apartments becomes effective, the apartment owners of the separate apartments may remove their apartment and the percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities appurtenant to such apartment from the lien by payment of the fractional or proportional amounts attributable to each of the apartments affected. Such individual payment shall be computed by reference to the percentages appearing on the declaration. Subsequent to any such payment, discharge or other satisfaction the apartment and the percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities appurtenant thereto shall thereafter be free and clear of the lien so paid, satisfied or discharged. Such partial payment, satisfaction or discharge shall not prevent the lienor from proceeding to enforce his rights against any apartment and the percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities appurtenant thereto not so paid, satisfied or discharged.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 909 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 909. Common profits and expenses

 The common profits of the property shall be distributed among, and the common expenses shall be charged to, the apartment owners according to the percentage of the undivided interest in the common areas and facilities.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 910 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 910. Contents of declaration

 The declaration shall contain the following particulars: (1) Description of the land, whether leased or in fee simple, on which the building and improvements are or are to be located. (2) Description of the building, stating the number of stories and basements, the number of apartments and the principal materials of which it is or is to be constructed. (3) The apartment number of each apartment, and a statement of its location, approximate area, number of rooms, and immediate common area to which it has access, and any other data necessary for its proper identification. (4) Description of the common areas and facilities. (5) Description of the limited common areas and facilities, if any, stating to which apartments their use is reserved. (6) Value of the property and of each apartment, and the percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities appertaining to each apartment and its owner for all purposes, including voting. (7) Statement of the purposes for which the building and each of the apartments are intended and restricted as to use. (8) The name of a person to receive service of process in the cases hereinafter provided, together with the residence or place of business of such person which shall be within the judicial district in which the building is located. (9) Provision as to the percentage of votes by the apartment owners which shall be determinative of whether to rebuild, repair, restore, or sell the property in the event of damage or destruction of all or part of the property. (10) Any further details in connection with the property which the person executing the declaration may deem desirable to set forth consistent with this chapter. (11) The method by which the declaration may be amended, consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 911 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 911. Contents of deeds of apartments

 Deeds of apartments shall include the following particulars: (1) Description of the land as provided in section 910 of this title, or the post-office address of the property, including in either case the book, page and date of recording of the declaration. (2) The apartment number of the apartment in the declaration and any other data necessary for its proper identification. (3) Statement of the use for which the apartment is intended and restrictions on its use. (4) The percentage of undivided interest appertaining to the apartment in the common areas and facilities. (5) Any further details which the grantor and grantee or lessor and lessee may deem desirable to set forth consistent with the declaration of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 912 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 912. Copy of the floor plans to be filed

 Simultaneously with the recording of the declaration there shall be filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for the district where the property is situated a set of the floor plans of the building showing the layout, location, apartment numbers and dimensions of the apartments, stating the name of the building or that it has no name, and bearing the verified statement of a registered architect, licensed land surveyor or licensed professional engineer certifying that it is an accurate copy of portions of the plans of the building as filed with and approved by the Department of Public Works. If such plans do not include a verified statement by such architect, licensed land surveyor or engineer that such plans fully and accurately depict the layouts, location, apartment numbers and dimensions of the apartments as built, there shall be recorded prior to the first conveyance of any apartment an amendment to the declaration to which shall be attached a verified statement of a registered architect, licensed land surveyor or licensed professional engineer certifying that the plans theretofore filed, or being filed simultaneously with such amendment, fully and accurately depict the layout, location, apartment numbers and dimensions of the apartments as built. Such plans shall be kept by the Recorder of Deeds in a separate file for each building, indexed in the same manner as a conveyance entitled to record, numbered serially in the order of receipt, each designated “Apartment ownership”, with the name of the building, if any, and each containing a reference to the book, page and date of recording of the declaration. Correspondingly, the record of the declaration shall contain a reference to the title number of the floor plans of the building affected thereby.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 913 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 913. Blanket mortgages and other blanket liens affecting an apartment at time of first conveyance

 At the time of the first conveyance or lease of each apartment, every mortgage and other lien affecting such apartment, including the percentage of undivided interest of the apartment in the common areas and facilities, shall be paid and satisfied of record, or; the apartment being conveyed or leased and its percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities shall be released therefrom by partial release duly recorded.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 914 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 914. Recording

 (a) The declaration, any amendment or amendments thereof, any instruments by which the provisions of this chapter may be waived, and every instrument affecting the property or any apartment shall be entitled to be recorded. Neither the declaration nor any amendment thereof shall be valid unless duly recorded. (b) In addition to the records and indexes required to be maintained by the Recorder of Deeds, said Recorder shall maintain an index or indexes whereby the record of each declaration contains a reference to the record of each conveyance of an apartment affected by such declaration, and the record of each conveyance of an apartment contains a reference to the declaration of the building of which such apartment is a part.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 915 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 915. Removal from provisions of this chapter

 (a) All of the apartment owners may remove a property from the provisions of this chapter by an instrument to that effect, duly recorded, provided that the holders of all liens affecting any of the apartments consent thereto or agree, in either case by instruments duly recorded, that their liens be transferred to the percentage of the undivided interest of the apartment owner in the property as hereinafter provided. (b) Upon removal of the property from the provisions of this chapter, the property shall be deemed to be owned in common by the apartment owners. The undivided interest in the property owned in common which shall appertain to each apartment owner shall be the percentage of undivided interest previously owned by such owner in the common areas and facilities.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 916 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 916. Removal no bar to subsequent resubmission

 The removal provided for in the preceding section shall in no way bar the subsequent resubmission of the property to the provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 917 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 917. Bylaws

 The administration of every property shall be governed by bylaws a true copy of which shall be annexed to the declaration and made a part thereof. No modification of or amendment to the bylaws shall be valid unless set forth in an amendment to the declaration and such amendment is duly recorded.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 918 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 918. Contents of bylaws

 The bylaws may provide for the following: (a) The election from among the apartment owners of a Board of Directors, the number of persons constituting the same, and that the terms of at least one-third of the directors shall expire annually; the powers and duties of the Board; the compensation, if any, of the directors; the method of removal from office of directors; and whether or not the Board may engage the services of a manager or managing agent. (b) Method of calling meetings of the apartment owners; what percentage, if other than a majority of apartment owners shall constitute a quorum. (c) Election of a President from among the Board of Directors who shall preside over the meetings of the Board of Directors and of the Association of Apartment Owners. (d) Election of a Secretary who shall keep the minute book wherein resolutions shall be recorded. (e) Election of a Treasurer who shall keep the financial records and books of account. (f) Maintenance, repair and replacement of the common areas and facilities and payments therefor, including the method of approving payment vouchers. (g) Manner of collecting from the apartment owners their share of the common expenses. (h) Designation and removal of personnel necessary for the maintenance, repair and replacement of the common areas and facilities. (i) Method of adopting and of amending administrative rules and regulations governing the details of the operation and use of the common areas and facilities. (j) Such restrictions on and requirements respecting the use and maintenance of the apartments and the use of the common areas and facilities, not set forth in the declaration, as are designed to prevent unreasonable interference with the use of their respective apartments and of the common areas and facilities by the several apartment owners. (k) The percentage of votes required to amend the bylaws. (l) Other provisions as may be deemed necessary for the administration of the property consistent with this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 919 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 919. Books of receipts and expenditures; availability for examination; annual audit

 The manager or Board of Directors, as the case may be, shall keep detailed, accurate records in chronological order, of the receipts and expenditures affecting the common areas and facilities, specifying and itemizing the maintenance and repair expenses of the common areas and facilities and any other expenses incurred. Such records and the vouchers authorizing the payments shall be available for examination by the apartment or the condominium unit owners upon reasonable notice in advance at convenient hours of week days. The manager or Board of Directors shall also provide a copy of the profit and loss statement and bank statements on an annual basis, to each Apartment or Condominium unit owner of an Apartment or Condominium having ten or fewer units. An annual audit by an independent auditor shall be made of the books and records for Apartments or Condominiums with eleven or more apartment or condominium units. For Apartments or Condominiums with ten or fewer apartments or condominium units, any owner may request that, an audit by an independent auditor be made of the books and records. Except as otherwise provided in the declaration, bylaws, rules, regulations or other instrument, or by vote of the owners, an Apartment or Condominium unit owner who requests an audit is responsible for all fees charged by the independent auditor.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 920 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 920. Waiver of use of common areas and facilities; abandonment of apartment

 No apartment owner may exempt himself from liability for his contribution towards the common expenses by waiver of the use or enjoyment of any of the common areas and facilities or by abandonment of his apartment.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 921 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 921. Separate taxation

 Each apartment and its percentage of undivided interest in the common areas and facilities shall be deemed to be a parcel and shall be subject to separate assessment and taxation under the provision of subtitle 2 of Title 33. Neither the building, the property nor any of the common areas and facilities shall be deemed to be a parcel.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 922 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 922. Priority of lien

 (a) All sums assessed by the Association of Apartment Owners but unpaid for the share of the common expenses chargeable to any apartment shall constitute a lien on such apartment prior to all other liens except only (i) tax liens on the apartment in favor of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, and (ii) all sums unpaid on a first mortgage of record. Such lien may be foreclosed by suit by the manager or Board of Directors, acting on behalf of the apartment owners, in like manner as a mortgage of real property. In any such foreclosure the apartment owner shall be required to pay a reasonable rental for the apartment, if so provided in the bylaws, and the plaintiff in such foreclosure shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver to collect the same. The manager or Board of Directors, acting on behalf of the apartment owners, shall have the power, unless prohibited by the declaration, to bid in the apartment at foreclosure sale, and to acquire and hold, lease, mortgage and convey the same. Suit to recover a money judgment for unpaid common expenses shall be maintainable without foreclosing or waiving the lien securing the same. (b) Where the mortgage [sic] of a first mortgage of record or other purchaser of an apartment obtains title to the apartment as a result of foreclosure of the first mortgage, such acquirer of title, his successors and assigns, shall not be liable for the share of the common expenses or assessment by the Association of Apartment Owners chargeable to such apartment which became due prior to the acquisition of title to such apartment by such acquirer. Such unpaid share of common expenses or assessments shall be deemed to be common expenses collectible from all of the apartment owners including such acquirer, his successors and assigns.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 923 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 923. Joint and several liability of grantor and grantee for unpaid common expenses

 In a voluntary conveyance the grantee of an apartment shall be jointly and severally liable with the grantor for all unpaid assessments against the latter for his share of the common expenses up to the time of the grant or conveyance, without prejudice to the grantee's right to recover from the grantor the amounts paid by the grantee therefor. However, any such grantee shall be entitled to a statement from the manager or Board of Directors, as the case may be, setting forth the amount of the unpaid assessments against the grantor and such grantee shall not be liable for, nor shall the apartment conveyed be subject to a lien for, any unpaid assessments against the grantor in excess of the amount therein set forth.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 924 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 924. Insurance

 The manager or the Board of Directors, if required by the Declaration, bylaws or by a majority of the apartment owners, or at the request of a mortgagee having a first mortgage of record covering an apartment, shall have the authority to, and shall obtain insurance for the property against loss or damage by fire and such other hazards under such terms and for such amounts as shall be required or requested. Such insurance coverage shall be written on the property in the name of such manager or of the Board of Directors of the Association of Apartment Owners, as trustee for each of the apartment owners in the percentages established in the declaration. Premiums shall be common expenses. Provisions for such insurance shall be without prejudice to the right of each apartment owner to insure his own apartment for his benefit.
V.I. Code tit. 28, § 925 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 28 - Property|Chapter 33 - Condominium Act|§ 925. Disposition of property; destruction or damage

 If, within 60 days of the date of the damage or destruction to all or part of the property, it is not determined by the Association of Apartment Owners to repair, reconstruct or rebuild, then and in that event: (a) the property shall be deemed to be owned in common by the apartment owners; (b) the undivided interest in the property owned in common which shall appertain to each apartment owner shall be the percentage of undivided interest previously owned by such owner in the common areas and facilities; (c) any liens affecting any of the apartments shall be deemed to be transferred in accordance with the existing priorities to the percentage of the undivided interest of the apartment owners in the property as provided herein; and (d) the property shall be subject to an action for partition at the suit of any apartment owner, in which event the net proceeds of sale, together with the net proceeds of the insurance on the property, if any, shall be considered as one fund and shall be divided among all the apartment owners in a percentage equal to the percentage of undivided interest owned by each owner, in the property, after first paying out of the respective shares of the apartment owners, to the extent sufficient for the purposes, all liens on the undivided interest in the property owned by each apartment owner.