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Pennsylvania Ch. 68-31
Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act (68 Pa.C.S. Ch. 31)Governs Pennsylvania condominiums created on or after the act's effective date under Title 68, Chapter 31, §§ 3101-3414. Covers definitions, association powers, the executive board and declarant control, meetings, assessments for common expenses, the statutory lien and its judicial foreclosure, association records, and resale certificates. Pennsylvania enacted the three older standalone uniform acts rather than the unified UCIOA.Official source
§ 3103
Defines the terms used throughout the Uniform Condominium Act, including association, common elements, common expenses, condominium, declarant, declaration, executive board, special declarant rights, unit, and unit owner.
§ 3302
Lists the default powers of the condominium association unless the declaration provides otherwise: adopt bylaws and budgets, collect assessments, hire and terminate managing agents, litigate, make contracts, regulate the common elements, impose late charges and (after notice and an opportunity to be heard) reasonable fines and suspensions, impose certain resale and capital improvement fees, and exercise other necessary powers.
§ 3303
Establishes the executive board's authority to act for the association, the fiduciary duties and prudent-investor standard for officers and board members, limits on board authority, the period and termination of declarant control, the election of board members during and after that control, and removal of board members.
§ 3308
Requires association meetings at least annually with notice between 10 and 60 days in advance, governs delivery of notice for virtual meetings, permits participation by remote technology, requires pre-election candidate sessions when contested, and addresses recording of meetings.
§ 3314
Sets when assessments begin, requires at least annual budgeting and assessment, allocates general common expenses by common expense liability, caps default interest on past-due assessments at 15% per year, provides special allocations for limited common elements and certain expenses, and addresses reallocation.
§ 3315
Creates the association's lien for unpaid assessments and fines from the time they become due, and provides that the lien may be foreclosed in like manner as a mortgage on real estate (judicial foreclosure in Pennsylvania). Sets the lien's priority, including a limited six-month priority over a first mortgage on a judicial sale, a four-year limitation, the recordable statement of unpaid assessments, and the order in which payments are applied.
§ 3316
Requires the association to keep detailed financial records during the period of declarant control and financial records sufficient to comply with resale-certificate duties, and to make all financial and other records reasonably available for examination by any unit owner and authorized agents.
§ 3407
On a resale by a unit owner other than a declarant, requires the seller to furnish the buyer, before contract or conveyance, the declaration, bylaws and rules plus a certificate of specified financial and governance disclosures; requires the association to supply the needed information within ten days; and makes the purchase contract voidable until the certificate is provided and for five days thereafter.
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