2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY-ONE - Civil Code (§§ 1 — 5305) › Subtitle 2 - Property Ownership and Its Modifications (§§ 1021 — 1875) › PART III - Common Ownership of Property (§§ 1271 — 1303) › Chapter 150 - Horizontal Property (§§ 1291 — 1294e) › Subchapter III - Administration and Insurance (§§ 1293 — 1293k) › § 1293a - Necessary contents of regulations; modifications of system; recording

The regulations may contain all those norms and rules regarding the use of the building and its apartments, the exercise of rights, installations and services, expenses, administration and government, insurance, preservation and repairs that do not contravene the provisions set forth in this chapter, and shall provide for the following issues:
(a) Manner of administration, indicating if same shall be under the responsibility of a Director or a Board of Directors, stating his/her duties, removal, and, where appropriate, remuneration. It shall also specify which duties and responsebilities, if any, may be delegated to an administrator by the Director of the Board of Directors.
(b) Uniform unit owners’ assembly convocation or summons system, stating the method of notification that allows for making same evident.
(c) Definition of the concept of majority that shall govern in the condominium.
(d) Person who shall preside and be in charge of the minutes in which agreements shall be recorded.
(e) Care, tending, and surveillance of the building’s common, general or limited elements and services.
(f) Method of collecting the unit owner funds for the payment of common expenses.
(g) Designation and termination of the necessary personnel for the performance of common, general, or limited works and services for the building.
At any time, the single owner of the building, or, if there are more than one, two thirds of the owners and participation percentages in the common elements of the building, regardless of the definition of majority that governs the condominium, may modify the Regulations, if each matter contained in this section is regulated. The modification shall be documented in a public title and also inscribed in the particular registry of the master parcel, with a certified copy of same remaining in the files of the Registry of the Property, as set forth in § 1293 of this title.
The modification shall bind all unit owners from the moment in which the affirmative vote of two thirds of the unit owners is obtained, or the term of thirty (30) days set forth in subsection (e) of § 1293b-3 of this title herein elapses, with no opposition from more than one third of the unit owners. Regarding a third party, the modification shall not take effect until the date of submittal for filing in the Registry of the Property of the public title in which the amendment is stated, and a certified copy of same is attached to the title of constitution of the regime, and a record of the modification of the Regulations is made in the particular registry of the master parcel.
History —June 25, 1958, No. 104, p. 243, § 37; June 4, 1976, No. 157, p. 461, § 7; Aug. 11, 1995, No. 153, § 1; May 21, 1996, No. 43, § 1; Apr. 5, 2003, No. 103, § 23, eff. 90 days after Apr. 5, 2003.