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CT Gen Stat § 47-222 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-222 - Construction and validity of declaration, bylaws and rules. Marketability of title. Recording of surveys or plans.

 (a) All provisions of the declaration and bylaws are severable.(b) The rule against perpetuities does not apply to defeat any provision of the declaration or of the bylaws or rules of the association.(c) In the event of a conflict between the provisions of the declaration and the bylaws, the declaration prevails except to the extent the declaration is inconsistent with this chapter.(d) Title to a unit and common elements is not rendered unmarketable or otherwise affected by reason of an insubstantial failure of the declaration to comply with this chapter. Whether a substantial failure impairs marketability is not affected by this chapter.(e) In any case in which the surveys or plans required pursuant to section 47-228, as identified in the declaration, are not recorded simultaneously with the remainder of the declaration but are recorded thereafter, the failure to record the survey or plans simultaneously with the remainder of the declaration is an insubstantial failure of the declaration to comply with this chapter.(P.A. 83-474, S. 23, 96; P.A. 99-238, S. 3, 8; P.A. 00-84, S. 3, 6; P.A. 09-225, S. 10.)History: P.A. 99-238 added Subsec. (e) re failure to record survey or plans simultaneously with remainder of declaration is insubstantial failure of declaration to comply with chapter, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 00-84 revised effective date of P.A. 99-238 to specify applicability of section as amended by that act to errors, irregularities and omissions occurring on or after January 1, 1999, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 09-225 amended Subsec. (b) to delete reference to regulations and add “of the association”, effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-223 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-223 - Description of unit.

 A description of a unit which sets forth the name of the common interest community, the recording data for the original declaration, the town in which the common interest community is located and the identifying number of the unit, is a legally sufficient description of that unit and all rights, obligations and interests appurtenant to that unit which were created by the declaration or bylaws as amended or restated.(P.A. 83-474, S. 24, 96.)
CT Gen Stat § 47-225 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-225 - Leasehold common interest communities.

 (a) Any lease the expiration or termination of which may terminate the common interest community or reduce its size, or a memorandum thereof, shall be recorded. Every lessor of those leases in a condominium or planned community shall sign the declaration. The declaration shall state: (1) The recording data for the lease or a statement of where the complete lease may be inspected; (2) the date on which the lease is scheduled to expire; (3) a legally sufficient description of the real property subject to the lease; (4) any rights of the unit owners to redeem the reversion and the manner whereby those rights may be exercised, or a statement that they do not have those rights; (5) any rights of the unit owners to remove any improvements within a reasonable time after the expiration or termination of the lease, or a statement that they do not have those rights; and (6) any rights of the unit owners to renew the lease and the conditions of any renewal, or a statement that they do not have those rights.(b) After the declaration for a leasehold condominium or leasehold planned community is recorded, neither the lessor nor the lessor's successor in interest may terminate the leasehold interest of a unit owner who makes timely payment of a unit owner's share of the rent and otherwise complies with all covenants which, if violated, would entitle the lessor to terminate the lease. A unit owner's leasehold interest in a condominium or planned community is not affected by failure of any other person to pay rent or fulfill any other covenant.(c) Acquisition of the leasehold interest of any unit owner by the owner of the reversion or remainder does not merge the leasehold and reversionary or remainder interests unless the leasehold interests of all unit owners subject to that reversion or remainder are acquired.(d) If the expiration or termination of a lease decreases the number of units in a common interest community, the allocated interests shall be reallocated in accordance with subsection (a) of section 47-206 as if those units had been taken by eminent domain. Reallocations shall be confirmed by an amendment to the declaration prepared, executed and recorded by the association.(e) A lease satisfying the description in subsection (a) of this section is not subject to sections 47a-1 to 47a-20e, inclusive.(P.A. 83-474, S. 26, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 11.)History: P.A. 09-225 added Subsec. (e) re lease described in Subsec. (a) not being subject to Secs. 47a-1 to 47a-20e, effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-227 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-227 - Limited common elements.

 (a) Except for the limited common elements described in subdivisions (2) and (4) of section 47-221 and except to the extent a right to allocate a limited common element is reserved pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, the declaration shall specify to which unit or units each limited common element is allocated. An allocation may not be altered without the consent of the unit owners whose units are affected.(b) Except as the declaration otherwise provides, a limited common element may be reallocated by an amendment to the declaration executed by the unit owners between or among whose units the reallocation is made. The persons executing the amendment shall provide a copy thereof to the association, which shall record it. The amendment shall be recorded in the names of the parties and the common interest community.(c) A common element not previously allocated as a limited common element may be so allocated only pursuant to provisions in the declaration made in accordance with subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 47-224. The allocations shall be made by amendments to the declaration.(P.A. 83-474, S. 28, 96; P.A. 10-186, S. 3.)History: P.A. 10-186 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-230 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-230 - Alterations of units.

 Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, a unit owner:(1) May make any improvements or alterations to his unit that do not impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems or lessen the support of any portion of the common interest community;(2) May not change the appearance of the common elements, or the exterior appearance of a unit or any other portion of the common interest community, without permission of the association;(3) After acquiring an adjoining unit or an adjoining part of an adjoining unit, may remove or alter any intervening partition or create apertures therein, even if the partition in whole or in part is a common element, if those acts do not impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems or lessen the support of any portion of the common interest community. Removal of partitions or creation of apertures under this subsection is not an alteration of boundaries.(P.A. 83-474, S. 31, 96.)Cited. 207 C. 441.
CT Gen Stat § 47-230a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-230a - Display of object on entry door or entry door frame which is motivated by observance of religious practice or belief. Restrictions.

 (a) No person may prohibit or hinder the owner, lessee or sublessee of a condominium unit from attaching to an entry door or entry door frame of such unit an object the display of which is motivated by observance of a religious practice or sincerely held religious belief.(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not prohibit the enforcement or adoption of a bylaw that, to the extent allowed by the first amendment to the United States Constitution and section 3 of article first of the Constitution of the state, prohibits the display or affixing of an item on an entry door or entry door frame to the owner's, lessee's or sublessee's unit when such item: (1) Threatens the public health or safety; (2) hinders the opening and closing of an entry door; (3) violates any federal, state or local law; (4) contains graphics, language or any display that is obscene or otherwise patently offensive; (5) individually or in combination with each other item displayed or affixed on an entry door frame has a total size greater than twenty-five square inches; or (6) individually or in combination with each other item displayed or affixed on an entry door has a total size greater than four square feet.(P.A. 12-113, S. 6.)History: P.A. 12-113 effective July 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 47-231 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-231 - Relocation of unit boundaries.

 (a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration and any provisions of law, the boundaries between adjoining units may be relocated by an amendment to the declaration on application to the association by the owners of those units. If the owners of the adjoining units have specified a reallocation between their units of their allocated interests, the application shall state the proposed reallocations. Unless the executive board determines, within thirty days after receipt of the application, that the reallocations are unreasonable, the association shall consent to the reallocation and prepare an amendment that identifies the units involved, states the reallocations and indicates the association's consent. The amendment shall be executed by those unit owners, contain words of conveyance between them, and, on recordation, be indexed in the name of the grantor and the grantee, and in the grantee's index in the name of the association.(b) Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, boundaries between units and common elements may be relocated to incorporate common elements within a unit by an amendment to the declaration upon application to the association by the owner of the unit who proposes to relocate a boundary. Unless the declaration provides otherwise, the amendment may be approved only if persons entitled to cast at least sixty-seven per cent of the votes in the association, including sixty-seven per cent of the votes allocated to units not owned by the declarant, agree to the action. The amendment may describe any fees or charges payable by the owner of the affected unit in connection with the boundary relocation and the fees and charges are assets of the association. The amendment must be executed by the unit owner of the unit whose boundary is being relocated and by the association, contain words of conveyance between them and on recordation be indexed in the name of the unit owner and the association as grantor or grantee, as appropriate.(c) The association (1) in a condominium or planned community shall prepare and record surveys or plans necessary to show the altered boundaries of affected units, and their dimensions and identifying numbers, and (2) in a cooperative shall prepare and record amendments to the declaration, including any plans necessary to show or describe the altered boundaries of affected units, and their dimensions and identifying numbers.(P.A. 83-474, S. 32, 96; P.A. 95-187, S. 11.)History: P.A. 95-187 added new Subsec. (b) re relocation of boundaries between units and common elements and procedure therefor, redesignating former Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c), and amended Subsec. (c) to replace “altered boundaries between adjoining units” with “altered boundaries of affected units” where appearing.Cited. 207 C. 441.
CT Gen Stat § 47-232 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-232 - Subdivision of units.

 (a) If the declaration expressly so permits, a unit may be subdivided into two or more units. Subject to the provisions of the declaration and any provisions of law, on application of a unit owner to subdivide a unit, the association shall prepare, execute and record an amendment to the declaration, including in a condominium or planned community the surveys and plans, subdividing that unit.(b) The amendment to the declaration shall be executed by the owner of the unit to be subdivided, assign an identifying number to each unit created and reallocate the allocated interests formerly allocated to the subdivided unit to the new units in any reasonable manner prescribed by the owner of the subdivided unit or on any other basis the declaration requires.(P.A. 83-474, S. 33, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 13.)History: P.A. 09-225 added “or on any other basis the declaration requires” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-233 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-233 - Monuments as boundaries.

 The existing physical boundaries of a unit or the physical boundaries of a unit reconstructed in substantial accordance with the description contained in the original declaration are its legal boundaries, rather than the boundaries derived from the description contained in the original declaration, regardless of vertical or lateral movement of the building or minor variance between those boundaries and the boundaries derived from the description contained in the original declaration. This section does not relieve a unit owner of liability in case of his wilful misconduct or relieve a declarant or any other person of liability for failure to adhere to any surveys and plans or, in a cooperative, to any representation in the public offering statement.(P.A. 83-474, S. 34, 96.)
CT Gen Stat § 47-234 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-234 - Use for sales purposes.

 A declarant may maintain sales offices, management offices and models in units or on common elements in the common interest community only if the declaration so provides and specifies the rights of a declarant with regard to the number, size, location and relocation thereof. In a cooperative or condominium, any sales office, management office or model not designated a unit by the declaration is a common element. If a declarant ceases to be a unit owner, he ceases to have any rights with regard to such a common element unless it is removed promptly from the common interest community in accordance with a right to remove reserved in the declaration. Subject to any limitations in the declaration, a declarant may maintain signs on the common elements advertising the common interest community. This section is subject to the provisions of other state law and to local ordinances.(P.A. 83-474, S. 35, 96.)
CT Gen Stat § 47-235 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-235 - Easement and use rights.

 (a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration, a declarant has such an easement through the common elements as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of discharging the declarant's obligations or exercising special declarant rights, whether arising under this chapter or reserved in the declaration.(b) Subject to the provisions of subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 47-244 and section 47-254, the unit owners have an easement in the common elements for access to their units.(c) Subject to the declaration and rules, the unit owners have a right to use the common elements that are not limited common elements and all real property that must become common elements for all appropriate purposes.(P.A. 83-474, S. 36, 96; P.A. 09-225, S. 14.)History: P.A. 09-225 deleted “In a planned community”, “for purposes of” re access and Subdiv. designators in Subsec. (b) and rewrote existing provisions re use of common elements as Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 47-238 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-238 - Rights of secured lenders.

 (a) The declaration may require that all or a specified number or percentage of the lenders who hold security interests encumbering the units or who have extended credit to the association and whose consent rights have been granted by agreement, approve specified actions of the unit owners or the association as a condition to the effectiveness of those actions, but no requirement for approval may operate to (1) deny or delegate control over the general administrative affairs of the association by the unit owners or the executive board, or (2) prevent the association or the executive board from commencing, intervening in or settling any litigation or proceeding, or (3) prevent any insurance trustee or the association from receiving and distributing any insurance proceeds except pursuant to section 47-255.(b) A lender who has extended credit to an association secured by an assignment of income or an encumbrance on the common elements may enforce its security agreement in accordance with its terms, subject to the requirements of this chapter and other law. Requirements that the association must deposit its periodic common charges before default with the lender to which the association's income has been assigned, or increase its periodic common charges at the lender's direction by amounts reasonably necessary to amortize the loan in accordance with its terms, or to have a court appointed receiver of the association collect and disburse common charges after default, do not violate the prohibitions on lender approval contained in subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 83-474, S. 39, 96; P.A. 95-187, S. 14.)History: P.A. 95-187 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended said Subsec. to delete provision re security interests encumbering the “common elements” and add provision authorizing the declaration to require that secured lenders “who have extended credit to the association and whose consent rights have been granted by agreement” approve certain actions and added Subsec. (b) to authorize a lender who has extended credit to an association secured by an assignment of income or an encumbrance on the common elements to enforce its security agreement and provide that certain requirements imposed on the association or a receiver re the deposit, increase or collection and disbursement of common charges do not violate the prohibitions on lender approval of Subsec. (a).
CT Gen Stat § 47-239a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-239a - Termination and dissolution of master association. Establishment of nonstock corporation.

 In the case of a master association: (1) That is comprised of common interest communities consisting of not less than four hundred units but not more than six hundred units, (2) in which the master association is governed by a board of directors consisting of one individual representing each constituent common interest community, who is on the board of directors of the constituent common interest community, and (3) in which the master association board of directors has a weighted vote based on the number of units in the constituent common interest community represented by the director:(A) On the written consent of unit owners owning not less than twenty-five per cent of the units in the constituent common interest communities of such master association, the master association shall be terminated and dissolved and shall convey all assets owned by the master association to a new nonstock corporation that shall be formed not later than sixty days after the termination and dissolution of the master association.(B) The associations of unit owners of the constituent common interest communities shall be the members of the new nonstock corporation. Each of the member associations shall appoint one person to be a member of the board of directors of the new nonstock corporation. Each member of the board of directors of the new nonstock corporation shall have one equal vote on matters to be voted on by the board of directors.(C) The unit owners of each constituent common interest community shall have equal rights to utilize the facilities owned by the new nonstock corporation and each constituent common interest community shall share in the cost of the operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the facilities of the new nonstock corporation on the basis of the number of units in each constituent common interest community as a percentage of the total number of units in all constituent common interest communities that comprise the master association.(D) The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction to enter such orders as may be appropriate in the circumstances to implement the termination and transfer and the organization and operation of the new nonstock corporation.(P.A. 14-215, S. 7; P.A. 15-211, S. 25.)History: P.A. 14-215 effective January 1, 2015; P.A. 15-211 amended Subdiv. (1) by adding “but not more than six hundred units”, effective June 30, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 47-240 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 47 - Land and Land Titles|Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act|Section 47-240 - Merger or consolidation of common interest communities.

 (a) Any two or more common interest communities of the same form of ownership, by agreement of the unit owners as provided in subsection (b) of this section, may be merged or consolidated into a single common interest community. In the event of a merger or consolidation, unless the agreement otherwise provides, the resultant common interest community is the legal successor, for all purposes, of all of the preexisting common interest communities, and the operations and activities of all associations of the preexisting common interest communities are merged or consolidated into a single association that holds all powers, rights, obligations, assets and liabilities of all preexisting associations.(b) An agreement of two or more common interest communities to merge or consolidate pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be evidenced by an agreement prepared, executed, recorded and certified by the president of the association of each of the preexisting common interest communities following approval by owners of units to which are allocated the percentage of votes in each common interest community required to terminate that common interest community. The agreement shall be recorded in every town in which a portion of the common interest community is located and is not effective until recorded.(c) Every merger or consolidation agreement shall provide for the reallocation of the allocated interests in the new association among the units of the resultant common interest community either by stating (1) the reallocations or (2) the formulas on which they are based.(P.A. 83-474, S. 41, 96; P.A. 07-217, S. 180.)History: P.A. 07-217 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 12, 2007.