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MA Gen L ch 183a § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183a - Condominiums|Section 19 - Removal From Provisions of This Chapter

Section 19. (a) Seventy-five per cent of the unit owners, or such greater percentage as is stipulated in the by-laws, may remove all of a condominium or portion thereof from the provisions of this chapter by an instrument to that effect, duly recorded, provided that the holders of all liens upon any of the units affected consent thereto by instruments duly recorded. Upon such removal, the condominium, including all the units, or the portion thereof thus removed shall be owned in common by the unit owners and the organization of unit owners shall be dissolved, unless it is otherwise provided in the removal instrument. The undivided interest in the property owned in common held by each unit owner shall be equal to the percentage of the undivided interest of such owner in the common areas and facilities.  (b) Such removal shall not bar the subsequent resubmission of the land and buildings involved to the provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 183a § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183a - Condominiums|Section 20 - Municipal Participation in Condominium Organization and Ownership

Section 20. Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, a city or town may own a unit of a condominium under this chapter, participate in the organization of unit owners and be liable for its share of the common expenses of the condominium. Said city or town may either purchase a unit of a condominium or, if the city or town intends to become the owner of such a unit and use the same for municipal purposes, it may contract for the creation of a condominium and for the advancement to the city or town of the acquisition costs allocable to all other units therein. It may acquire land therefor or devote thereto land already owned by it, construct, reconstruct or remodel a building thereon subject however to the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty-nine notwithstanding that said building is not intended solely for municipal uses, and execute and record a master deed submitting such land and building to the provisions of this chapter. Upon the completion of the said construction, reconstruction or remodelling it may convey to such other parties to said contract such units as have been paid for in the proportion of the aggregate cost allocable to their stipulated units. The authority contained in this section shall be exercised, in the case of the city of Boston, by its public facilities commission, in the case of a city having a Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its city council, in the case of any other city, by its city council subject to the provisions of its city charter, and in the case of a town, by its town meeting.
MA Gen L ch 183a § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183a - Condominiums|Section 22 - Foreclosure of Condominium Development; Liability of Lender and Developer

Section 22. In the event of a foreclosure upon a condominium development, the lender taking over the project shall succeed to any obligations the developer has with the unit owners and to the tenants, except that the developers shall remain liable for any misrepresentation already made and for warranties on work done prior to the transfer.
MA Gen L ch 183a § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183a - Condominiums|Section 23 - Prior Consent for Amendment of Deed, Trust or Bylaw

Section 23. Where the master deed, declaration of trust or bylaws of a condominium submitted under this chapter requires the consent of mortgagees prior to amending said deed, trust or bylaws, consent shall be deemed given if the following conditions are satisfied: (i) written notice of the proposed amendment to the master deed, declaration of trust or bylaws, was provided to each mortgagee who holds a first mortgage on a unit within the condominium; (ii) the governing body of the organization of unit owners provided the notice by first class mail and certified mail, return receipt requested; and (iii) the mortgagee fails to respond or object within 60 days of the date of mailing such notice. In the event of any conflict between this section and the master deed, trust or bylaws or other governing documents of the condominium, this section shall control.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 1 - Citation

Section 1. This chapter may be cited as the Real Estate Time–Share Act.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 3 - Estates in Fee Simple; Estates for Years; Separate Estates; Taxes and Assessments; Recording Documents

Section 3. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and notwithstanding any contrary rule of common law, a grant of an estate in a unit conferring the right of possession during a potentially infinite number of separated time periods creates an estate in fee simple having the character and incidents of such an estate at common law, and a grant of an estate in a unit conferring the right of possession during five or more separated time periods over a finite number of years equal to five or more, including extension or renewal options, creates an estate for years having the character and incidents of such an estate at common law.  (b) Each time-share estate constitutes for all purposes a separate estate in real property; provided, however, that a time-share property shall be considered one parcel of real estate for the assessment and collection of real estate taxes, betterment assessments or portions thereof, annual sewer use charges, water rates and charges, and all other assessments or portions thereof, rates and charges of every nature, due to a city, town or district with respect to the time-share property. Notices of assessments and bills for taxes shall be furnished to and paid by the managing entity, if any, as agent for the time-share owners, or if there is no managing entity, to each time-share owner. The managing entity shall give notice of such assessment to the time-share owners.  (c) A document transferring or encumbering a time-share estate may not be rejected for recording because of the nature or duration of such estate.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 4 - Agreements Varying Chapter Prohibited; Waiver of Rights

Section 4. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, provisions of this chapter shall not be varied by agreement, and rights conferred by this chapter shall not be waived. A developer shall not act under a power of attorney, or use any other device, to evade the limitations or prohibitions of this chapter or of the time-share instrument.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 5 - Unconscionable Contracts

Section 5. (a) The court, upon finding as a matter of law that a time-share contract or contract clause was unconscionable at the time the contract was made, may refuse to enforce such contract, may enforce the remainder of the contract without the unconscionable clause, or may limit the application of any such unconscionable clause in order to avoid an unconscionable result.  (b) Whenever it is claimed, or appears to said court, that such contract or contract clause is unconscionable, the court shall afford the parties a reasonable opportunity to present evidence as to:  (1) the commercial setting of the negotiations;  (2) whether a party has knowingly taken advantage of the inability of the other party reasonably to protect his interests by reason of physical or mental infirmity, illiteracy, or inability to understand the language of the agreement or similar factors;  (3) the effect and purpose of the contract or clause; and  (4) if a sale, any gross disparity, at the time of contracting, between the amount charged for the time-share and the value of the time-share measured by the price at which similar time-shares were readily obtainable, but a disparity between the contract price and the value of the time-share measured by the price at which a similar time-share was readily obtainable in similar transactions shall not, of itself, render the contract unconscionable.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 6 - Good Faith Obligation

Section 6. Every contract or duty governed by this chapter imposes an obligation of good faith in its performance or enforcement.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 7 - Remedies; Liberal Administration; Damages; Judicial Enforcement

Section 7. (a) The remedies provided by this chapter shall be liberally administered to the end that the aggrieved party is put in as good a position as if the other party had fully performed. However, consequential, special, or punitive damages may not be awarded except as specifically provided in this chapter or by other rule of law.  (b) Any right or obligation established by this chapter shall be enforceable by judicial proceeding.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 8 - Laws Supplementary to Chapter

Section 8. The principles of law and equity, including the law of corporations and unincorporated associations, the law of real property and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, eminent domain, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, receivership, substantial performance, or other validating or invalidating cause shall supplement the provisions of this chapter, except to the extent such principles are inconsistent with this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 9 - Conflicts With Other Laws

Section 9. In the event of any conflict between this chapter and chapter one hundred and eighty-three A or chapter one hundred and fifty-seven, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail, but this chapter does not invalidate or otherwise affect rights or obligations vested under said chapter one hundred and eighty-three A or said chapter one hundred and fifty-seven, or the manner of their exercise or enforcement.  The subdivision control law shall not apply to the division of a building into time-share units or to the creation of time-shares in a unit.  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to limit or otherwise affect the authority of the board of registration of real estate brokers and salesmen to regulate out-of-state real property sales within the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 10 - Implied Repeals by Subsequent Legislation

Section 10. This chapter being intended as a unified coverage of its subject matter, no part of it shall be construed to be impliedly repealed in whole or in part by subsequent legislation if such construction can reasonably be avoided.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 11 - Project Instruments; Creation of Time-Shares; Amendments

Section 11. If all of the documents constituting the project instrument are recorded, time-shares shall not be created in any unit in a project unless expressly permitted by the project instrument. No amendment to a project instrument which is recorded shall permit the creation of time-shares unless the owners of at least eighty per cent of the units, or any larger vote required by the project instrument or by law, consent to such amendment.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 12 - Instruments for Creation of More Than Twelve Time-Shares in Single Property; Recording; Contents

Section 12. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), more than twelve time-shares may be created in a single time-share property only by a time-share instrument recorded in the registry of deeds or land registration office for the district in which the time-share unit is situated. Said instrument shall contain or provide for the following:  (1) a legally sufficient description of the time-share property and the name or other identification of the project, if any, within which it is situated;  (2) the name of the registry district or land registration office in which the time-share property is situated;  (3) identification of time periods by letter, name, number, or combination thereof;  (4) the time-share expense liability and any voting rights assigned to each time-share;  (5) if additional units may become part of the time-share property, the method of doing so and the formula for allocation and reallocation of the time-share expense liabilities and any votes;  (6) the method of designating the insurance trustee required under section twenty-six;  (7) allocation of time for maintenance of the time-share units;  (8) provisions for management by a managing entity or by the time-share owners;  (9) if all of the time-shares are time-share licenses, the rights of a licensee, if his license is terminated, with respect to any of the property his license affects, or a statement that he has no rights; and  (10) any requirements for amendments to the time-share instrument.  (b) If a time-share license applies to units in more than one time-share property, the time-share instrument creating the license need not comply with the provisions of clauses (1) to (7), inclusive, of subsection (a).
MA Gen L ch 183b § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 13 - Instruments; Allocation of Votes and Expense Liabilities; Alteration

Section 13. (a) The time-share instrument shall state the amount of or formula used to determine any time-share expense liability allocated to each time-share.  (b) If the time-share instrument provides for voting, it shall allocate votes to each time-share unit and to each time-share estate and may allocate votes to any time-share license. It shall not allocate any votes to any other property or to any person who is not a time-share owner. The number of votes allocated to each time-share shall be equal for all time-shares or proportionate to each time-share's value as estimated by the developer, time-share expense liability, or unit size. The time-share instrument may specify some matters as to which the votes shall be equal and others as to which they shall be proportionate.  (c) Except as otherwise provided pursuant to clause (5) of subsection (a) of section twelve, the votes and time-share expense liabilities allocated to a time-share shall not be altered without the unanimous consent of all time-share owners entitled to vote and voting at a meeting in which at least eighty per cent of the votes allocated to time-shares are cast or in an initiative or referendum in which at least eighty per cent of said votes are cast.  (d) Except for minor variations due to rounding, the sum of the time-share expense liabilities assigned to all time-shares shall equal one if stated as fractions or one hundred per cent if stated as percentages. In the event of discrepancy between the time-share liabilities or votes allocated to a time-share and the result derived from the application of the formulas, the allocated time-share expense liability or vote prevails.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 14 - Partition of Units

Section 14. No action for partition of a time-share unit may be maintained except as permitted by the time-share instrument or by subsection (d) of section fifteen.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 16 - Sales or Management Offices; Models; Signs

Section 16. A developer may maintain sales offices, management offices, and models in the time-share property only if the time-share instrument so provides and specifies the rights of a developer with regard to the number, size, location, and relocation thereof. He may maintain signs on the property advertising the property. The provisions of this section shall be subject to other provisions of law, local ordinances or by-laws and the project instruments.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 17 - Instruments; Approval of Actions of Owners, Developer, or Managing Entity

Section 17. The time-share instrument may require that all or a specified number or percentage of the mortgagees of units or time-shares approve specified actions of the unit owners, time-share owners, developer, or managing entity as a condition to the effectiveness of said actions, but a requirement for approval shall not operate to (i) deny or delegate control over the general administrative affairs of any association by the unit owners, time-share owners, or both, or their elected representatives, or (ii) to prevent any association from commencing, intervening in, or settling any litigation or proceeding, or receiving and distributing any insurance proceeds pursuant to section twenty-six.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 18 - Deeds; Notice of Lease or License; Recording; Contents

Section 18. A time-share estate, coupled with a freehold estate, shall be evidenced by a time-share deed, and a time-share estate, coupled with an estate for years shall be evidenced by a notice of time-share lease. A time-share license shall be evidenced by a notice of time-share license. Said deed, notice of time-share lease or notice of time-share license shall be recorded in the registry of deeds or land registration office for the district in which the time-share property is located; provided however, that the number of time-shares in a time-share property is more than twelve. The time-share deed shall include the information required by law to be set forth in a deed of real property and the notice of time-share lease or notice of time-share license shall include the information required by law to be set forth in a notice of lease. In addition such deed or notice shall include:  (1) a statement that the instrument relates to a time-share and is subject to the provisions of this chapter;  (2) a description of the time-share including designation of the unit or units, and the time-share property in which it is located;  (3) the book, page and date of recording of all time-share instruments denominating, creating or regulating the time-share;  (4) a statement of the use for which the time-share is intended and the restrictions, if any, on its use;  (5) the time-share expense liability and any voting rights assigned to the time-share; and  (6) any further provisions which the parties may deem desirable to set forth, consistent with the time-share instruments and the provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 19 - Managing Entity

Section 19. (a) If the number of time-shares in a time-share property is more than twelve, the developer, before the first transfer of a time-share, shall create or provide a managing entity to manage the time-share property. The managing entity may be (i) a manager, who may be the developer, or (ii) an association, which shall be a profit or nonprofit corporation or an unincorporated association, the membership of which shall at all times consist exclusively of all the time-share owners. If the time-share property is part of a project containing time-share units and other units, the manager may be the entity that governs the project. If the number of time-shares in the time-share property is twelve or fewer and there is no managing entity, the time-share owners may form an association meeting the requirements specified above.  (b) In the absence of a managing entity required by this section, a court upon application of a party in interest, including a time-share owner or a lien holder, may appoint and prescribe the powers of a managing entity.
MA Gen L ch 183b § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title I - Title to Real Property|Chapter 183b - Real Estate Time-Shares|Section 21 - Powers and Duties of Developer

Section 21. The developer shall have the duties imposed on the managing entity by this chapter and the powers set forth in clauses (1) to (11), inclusive, of subsection (a) of section twenty until a managing entity is provided or the developer and his affiliates own no estate or interest in the time-share property, whichever first occurs. Thereafter, if there is no managing entity and the number of time-shares in the time-share property is twelve or fewer, the time-share owners shall have said powers subject to any provisions of the time-share instrument relating to the manner of the exercise thereof and shall have the responsibilities and liabilities of an association for the purposes of sections twenty-four and twenty-five. To the extent that the time-share instrument is silent with respect to the manner of exercise of any of said powers, the time-share owner may exercise said powers only by unanimous action.