Homeowners Association Ombudsman Section 2730310. This article must be known and may be cited as the Association ‘Homeowners Ombudsman Act’. Section 2730320. For the purposes of this article: (1) means the representative body, regardless of name, ‘Board’ designated in the governing documents to act on behalf of a homeowners association and govern the association. (2) means the recorded document, and recorded ‘Bylaws’ amendments to it, that contain the procedures for conducting the affairs of a homeowners association, regardless of the form of the legal entity or the name by which the document association’s comprising the bylaws is identified. (3) means a person or group of persons acting in ‘Declarant’ concert who: (a) as part of a common promotional plan, offers to dispose of the interest of the person or group of persons in a unit not previously disposed of; or (b) reserves or succeeds to a special declarant right, which means a right, in addition to the regular rights of the declarant as a unit owner, reserved for the benefit of or created by the declarant under the declaration or bylaws of the association. (4) means the recorded instruments, however ‘Declaration’ denominated, that create a homeowners association, including amendments to those instruments. (5) means the Department of Consumer Affairs. ‘Department’ (6) means the Director of the Department of ‘Director’ Consumer Affairs. (7) means a declarant or other person who owns ‘Homeowner’ a unit in a homeowners association, but does not include a person having an interest in such a unit solely as security for an obligation. (8) or means an entity ‘Homeowners association’ ‘association’ developed to manage and maintain a planned community or horizontal property regime for which there is a declaration requiring a person, by virtue of his ownership of a separate property within the planned community or horizontal property regime, to pay assessments for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements and other real estate described in that declaration. A or does not ‘homeowners association’ ‘association’ include a vacation timesharing plan organized and subject only to the provisions of Chapter 32.
Homeowners Association Ombudsman Section 2730310. This article must be known and may be cited as the ‘Homeowners Association Ombudsman Act’. Section 2730320. For the purposes of this article: (1) ‘Board’ means the representative body, regardless of name, designated in the governing documents to act on behalf of a homeowners association and govern the association. (2) ‘Bylaws’ means the recorded document, and recorded amendments to it, that contain the procedures for conducting the affairs of a homeowners association, regardless of the form of the association’s legal entity or the name by which the document comprising the bylaws is identified. (3) ‘Declarant’ means a person or group of persons acting in concert who: (a) as part of a common promotional plan, offers to dispose of the interest of the person or group of persons in a unit not previously disposed of; or (b) reserves or succeeds to a special declarant right, which means a right, in addition to the regular rights of the declarant as a unit owner, reserved for the benefit of or created by the declarant under the declaration or bylaws of the association. (4) ‘Declaration’ means the recorded instruments, however denominated, that create a homeowners association, including amendments to those instruments. (5) ‘Department’ means the Department of Consumer Affairs. (6) ‘Director’ means the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs. (7) ‘Homeowner’ means a declarant or other person who owns a unit in a homeowners association, but does not include a person having an interest in such a unit solely as security for an obligation. (8) ‘Homeowners association’ or ‘association’ means an entity developed to manage and maintain a planned community or horizontal property regime for which there is a declaration requiring a person, by virtue of his ownership of a separate property within the planned community or horizontal property regime, to pay assessments for a share of real estate taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of, or services or other expenses related to, common elements and other real estate described in that declaration. A ‘homeowners association’ or ‘association’ does not include a vacation timesharing plan organized and subject only to the provisions of Chapter 32.
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