35-8A-302
Section 35-8A-302 Powers of unit owners' association. (a) Except as provided in subsection
(b), and subject to the provisions of the declaration, the association may: (1) Adopt and
amend bylaws and rules and regulations; (2) Adopt and amend budgets for revenues, expenditures,
and reserves and impose and collect assessments for common expenses from unit owners; (3)
Hire and discharge managing agents and other employees, agents, and independent contractors;
(4) Institute, defend, or intervene in litigation or administrative proceedings in its own
name on behalf of itself or two or more unit owners on matters affecting the condominium;
(5) Make contracts and incur liabilities; (6) Regulate the use, maintenance, repair, replacement,
and modification of common elements; (7) Cause additional improvements to be made as a part
of the common elements; (8) Acquire, hold, encumber, and convey in its own name any right,
title, or interest to real or personal property, but interests in the common...
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35-8A-403
Section 35-8A-403 Offering statement - General provisions. (a) Except as provided in subsection
(b), an offering statement must contain or fully and accurately disclose the following information
with regard to the condominium, including a proposed condominium: (1) The name and principal
address of the declarant; (2) The name and the address, legal description, or other description
of the location of the condominium, and the number and types of units in the condominium;
(3) A general description of the condominium, including to the extent possible, number and
types of buildings, structures, and amenities the declarant is obligated to build, and declarant's
schedule of commencement and completion of construction of buildings, structures, and amenities
the declarant is obligated to include in the condominium; (4) Copies of the declaration, as
well as any recorded plats, plans, easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions, and reservations
affecting the condominium; the certificate or...
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35-8A-313
Section 35-8A-313 Insurance. (a) Commencing not later than the time of the first conveyance
of a unit to a person other than a declarant, the association shall maintain, to the extent
reasonably available: (1) Property insurance on the common elements insuring against all risks
of direct physical loss commonly insured against or, in the case of a conversion building,
against fire and extended coverage perils. The total amount of insurance after application
of any deductibles shall be not less than the greater of 80 percent of the actual cash value
of the insured property at the time the insurance is purchased or such greater percentage
of such actual cash value as may be necessary to prevent the applicability of any co-insurance
provision and at each renewal date, exclusive of land, excavations, foundations, and other
items normally excluded from property policies; and (2) Liability insurance, including medical
payments insurance, in an amount determined by the board but not less than...
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35-8A-103
Section 35-8A-103 Definitions. In the declaration and bylaws, unless specifically provided
otherwise or the context otherwise requires, and in this chapter, the following terms are
defined as set forth below: (1) AFFILIATE OF A DECLARANT. Any person who controls, is controlled
by, or is under common control with a declarant. A person "controls" a declarant
if the person (i) is a general partner, officer, director, or employer of the declarant, (ii)
directly or indirectly or acting in concert with one or more other persons, or through one
or more subsidiaries, owns, controls, holds with power to vote, or holds proxies representing
more than 20 percent of the voting interest in the declarant, (iii) controls in any manner
the election of a majority of the directors of the declarant, or (iv) has contributed more
than 20 percent of the capital of the declarant. A person "is controlled by" a declarant
if the declarant (i) is a general partner, officer, director, or employer of the person,...

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35-8A-312
Section 35-8A-312 Conveyance or encumbrance of common elements. (a) In a condominium portions
of the common elements may be conveyed or subjected to a security interest by the association
if persons entitled to cast at least 80 percent of the votes in the association, including
80 percent of the votes allocated to units not owned by a declarant, or any larger percentage
the declaration specifies, agree to that action; but all the owners of units to which any
limited common element is allocated must agree in order to convey that limited common element
or subject it to a security interest. The declaration may specify a smaller percentage only
if all of the units are restricted exclusively to nonresidential uses. Proceeds of the sale
or loan are an asset of the association. (b) An agreement to convey common elements in a condominium
or subject them to a security interest must be evidenced by the execution of an agreement,
or ratifications thereof, in the same manner as a deed, by the...
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35-8A-218
Section 35-8A-218 Termination of condominium. (a) Except in the case of a taking of all the
units by eminent domain specified in Section 35-8A-107, a condominium may be terminated only
by agreement of unit owners of units to which at least 80 percent of the votes in the association
are allocated, or any larger percentage the declaration specifies. The declaration may specify
a smaller percentage only if all of the units in the condominium are restricted exclusively
to nonresidential uses. (b) An agreement to terminate must be evidenced by the execution of
a termination agreement, or ratifications thereof, in the same manner as a deed, by the requisite
number of unit owners. The termination agreement must specify a date after which the agreement
will be void unless it is recorded before that date. A termination agreement and all ratifications
thereof must be recorded in every county in which a portion of the condominium is situated,
and is effective only upon recordation. (c) In the...
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35-8-17
Section 35-8-17 Liens in favor of association. The association shall have a lien on each unit
for any unpaid assessment duly made by the association for a share of common expenses, limited
common expenses or otherwise, together with interest thereon and, if authorized by the declaration
or bylaws, reasonable attorney's fees. Such lien shall be effective from and after the time
of recording in the public records of the county in which the unit is located of a claim of
lien stating the description of the unit, the name of the record owner, the amount due, and
the date when due. Such claim of lien shall include only sums which are due and payable when
the claim of lien is recorded and shall be signed and verified by an officer or agent of the
association. Upon full payment of all sums secured by the lien, the party making payment shall
be entitled to a recordable satisfaction of lien. All such liens shall be subordinate to any
lien for taxes, the lien of any mortgage of record, and any...
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35-8A-315
Section 35-8A-315 Assessments for common expenses. (a) Until the association makes a common
expense assessment, the declarant must pay all common expenses. After any assessment has been
made by the association, assessments must be made at least annually, based on a budget adopted
at least annually by the association. (b) Except for assessments under subsections (c), (d),
and (e), all common expenses must be assessed against all the units in accordance with the
allocations set forth in the declaration pursuant to Section 35-8A-207(a) and (b). Any past
due common expense assessment or installment thereof bears interest at the rate established
by the association not exceeding 18 percent per year. (c) To the extent required by the declaration:
(1) Any common expense associated with the maintenance, repair, or replacement of a limited
common element must be assessed against the units to which that limited common element is
assigned, equally, or in any other proportion that the declaration...
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35-8A-307
Section 35-8A-307 Upkeep of condominiums. (a) Except to the extent provided by the declaration,
subsection (b), or Section 35-8A-313(h), the association is responsible for maintenance, repair,
and replacement of the common elements, and each unit owner is responsible for maintenance,
repair, and replacement of his or her unit. Each unit owner shall afford to the association
and the other unit owners, and to their agents or employees, access through his or her unit
reasonably necessary for those purposes. If damage is inflicted on the common elements, or
on any unit through which access is taken, the unit owner responsible for the damage, or the
association if it is responsible, is liable for the prompt repair thereof. (b) In addition
to the liability that a declarant as a unit owner has under this chapter, the declarant alone
is liable for all expenses in connection with real estate subject to development rights. No
other unit owner and no other portion of the condominium is subject to...
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35-8A-207
Section 35-8A-207 Allocation of common element interests, votes, and common expense liabilities.
(a) The declaration must allocate to each unit in a condominium a fraction or percentage of
undivided interests in the common elements and in the common expenses of the association specified
in section 35-8A-315(a), and a portion of the votes in the association, to each unit and state
the formulas used to establish allocations of interest. Those allocations may not discriminate
in favor of units owned by the declarant or an affiliate of the declarant. (b) If units may
be added to or withdrawn from the condominium, the declaration must state the formulas to
be used to reallocate the allocated interests among all units included in the condominium
after the addition or withdrawal. (c) The declaration may provide: (i) that different allocations
of votes shall be made to the units on particular matters specified in the declaration; (ii)
for cumulative voting only for the purpose of electing...
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