Texas Property Code 221.088 – Open Meetings; Exceptions
(a) Notwithstanding any provision in the project instrument to the contrary and except as provided in this section, after the period of developer control under § 221.083, all meetings of the association and board are open to all members of the association and all members must be permitted to attend and listen to the deliberations and proceedings. Meetings must be conducted as provided in the project instrument. The board may adjourn a board meeting and reconvene in a closed executive session to consider:
(1) legal advice from an attorney for the board or the association;
(2) pending or contemplated litigation;
(3) financial information about an individual member of the association, an individual employee of the association, an individual employee of the managing entity, or an individual employee of a contractor for the association or managing entity; or
(4) matters relating to the job performance of, compensation of, health records of, or specific complaints against an individual employee of the association, an individual employee of the managing entity, or an individual employee of a contractor of the association or managing entity who works under the direction of the association or the managing entity.
(b) If a board meeting is closed as provided by Subsection (a)(1) or (2), the board, on final resolution of any matter for which the board received legal advice or that concerned pending or contemplated litigation, may disclose information about that matter in an open meeting, except to the extent that those matters are required to remain confidential by the terms of a settlement agreement or judgment.
Terms Used In Texas Property Code 221.088
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Association: means a council or association composed of all persons who have purchased a timeshare interest. See Texas Property Code 221.002
- Board: means the governing body of a timeshare association designated in a project instrument to act on behalf of the association. See Texas Property Code 221.002
- Developer: means :
(A) any person, excluding a sales agent, who creates a timeshare plan or is in the business of selling timeshare interests or employs a sales agent to sell timeshare interests; or
(B) any person who succeeds in the developer's interest by sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other transfer if the person:
(i) offers at least 12 timeshare interests in a particular timeshare plan; and
(ii) is in the business of selling timeshare interests or employs a sales agent to sell timeshare interests. See Texas Property Code 221.002 - Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- Managing entity: means the person responsible for operating and maintaining a timeshare property. See Texas Property Code 221.002
- Project instrument: means a timeshare instrument or one or more recordable documents, by whatever name denominated, applying to the whole of a timeshare project and containing restrictions or covenants regulating the use, occupancy, or disposition of units in a project, including a declaration for a condominium, association articles of incorporation, association bylaws, and rules for a condominium in which a timeshare plan is created. See Texas Property Code 221.002
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.