Connecticut General Statutes 47-80a – Powers of unit owners’ association. Opportunity for unit owners to express views re proposed budget
(a) Except to the extent prohibited by the condominium instruments, and subject to any restrictions and limitations specified therein, the unit owners’ association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall have the power to: (1) Employ, dismiss and replace agents and employees to exercise and discharge the powers and responsibilities of the association; (2) make or cause to be made additional improvements on and as a part of the common elements; (3) grant or withhold approval of any action by one or more unit owners or other persons entitled to occupancy of any unit which would change the exterior appearance of any unit or of any other portion of the condominium, or elect or provide for the appointment of an architectural control committee to grant or withhold such approval; (4) acquire, hold, convey and encumber title to real property, including, but not limited to, condominium units and the common elements appurtenant thereto, recreation facilities and personal property; (5) sue and be sued in any court, appear on behalf of all unit owners before any officer, agency, board, commission or department of the state or any political subdivision thereof and appeal from any judgments, orders, decisions or decrees rendered by the same; and (6) grant easements through the common elements and accept easements benefiting the condominium or any portion thereof. The foregoing enumeration of powers shall not be construed to prohibit the grant by the condominium instruments of other powers and responsibilities to the unit owners’ association, or to divest a unit owners’ association incorporated as a stock corporation under chapter 601 or any predecessor statutes thereto, or as a nonstock corporation under chapter 602 or any predecessor statutes thereto, of any powers which it may exercise thereunder.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 47-80a
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Board of directors: means an entity consisting of natural persons elected by the unit owners to direct the operation of the condominium. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Common elements: means all portions of the condominium other than the units. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Condominium: means real property and any incidents thereto and interests therein, lawfully submitted to this chapter by the recordation of condominium instruments pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Condominium instruments: means the declarations, bylaws, survey maps and plans recorded and filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Improvements: means any construction on or in any land included in the condominium, including, but not limited to, roads, buildings, poles, wires, sewers, drains, clubhouses, swimming pools, tennis courts, man-made lakes, ponds and watercourses. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Officer: means any member of the board of directors or official of the unit owner's association. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Recreation facilities: means that portion of the common elements intended for recreational, social and similar community use by the unit owners. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
- Unit: means a part of the property including one or more rooms or designated spaces located on one or more floors or a part or parts thereof in a building, intended for any type of independent use, and with a direct exit to a public street or highway or to common elements leading to such street or highway. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the condominium instruments to the contrary, at any meeting of the unit owners to consider the final adoption or ratification of any proposed budget for the condominium, or on a day prior to such meeting, the board of directors shall provide a reasonable opportunity for all unit owners to express their views concerning the proposed budget before its adoption or ratification. At least one copy of the proposed budget shall be available for inspection at such meeting.