Kansas Statutes 58-3123. Priority of liens
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 58-3123
- Apartment owner: means the person or persons owning an apartment or condominium unit in fee simple absolute and an undivided interest in the fee simple estate of the common areas and facilities as specified and established in the declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
- Association of apartment owners: means all of the apartment or condominium unit owners acting as a group in accordance with the bylaws and declaration. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
- Common expenses: means and includes:
(1) All sums lawfully assessed against the apartment owners by the association of apartment owners;
(2) expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or replacement of the common areas and facilities;
(3) expenses agreed upon as common expenses by the association of apartment owners; and
(4) expenses declared common expenses by provisions of this act, or by the declaration or the bylaws. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
- Declaration: means the instrument by which the property is submitted to the provisions of this act as hereinafter provided, and such declaration as from time to time may be lawfully amended. See Kansas Statutes 58-3102
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
(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 any assessing unit and special district, 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 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 mortgagee 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 or her 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 become 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 or her successors and assigns.