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(a) Except as provided in the declaration, the bylaws, subsection (b), or in other provisions
of this chapter, the executive board may act in all instances on behalf of the association.
In the performance of their duties, the officers and members of the executive board
are required to exercise:
If appointed by the declarant, the care required of fiduciaries of the unit owners;
and
If elected by the unit owners, ordinary and reasonable care.
(b) The executive board may not act on behalf of the association to amend the declaration
(§ 34-36.1-2.17), to terminate the condominium, or to elect members of the executive board or determine
the qualifications, powers and duties, or terms of office of executive board members,
but the executive board may fill vacancies in its membership for the unexpired portion
of any term.
(c) Within thirty
days after adoption of any proposed budget for the condominium,
the executive board shall provide a summary of the budget to all the unit owners,
and shall set a date for a meeting of the unit owners to consider ratification of
the budget not less than fourteen
nor more than thirty
days after mailing
of the summary. Unless at that meeting a majority of all the unit owners or any larger
vote specified in the declaration reject the budget, the budget is ratified, whether
or not a quorum is present. In the event the proposed budget is rejected, the periodic
budget last ratified by the unit owners shall be continued until such time as the
unit owners ratify a subsequent budget proposed by the executive board.
(d)
Subject to subsection (e), the declaration may provide for a period of declarant control
of the association, during which period a declarant, or persons designated by him,
may appoint and remove the officers and members of the executive board. Regardless
of the period provided in the declaration, a period of declarant control terminates
no later than the earlier of:
(i) Sixty
days after conveyance of eighty percent (80%) of the units which may be
created to unit owners other than a declarant;
(ii) Two
years after all declarants have ceased to offer units for sale in the ordinary
course of business; or
(iii) Two
years after any development right to add new units was last exercised.
A declarant may voluntarily surrender the right to appoint and remove officers and
members of the executive board before terminations of that period, but in that event
he or she may require, for the duration of the period of declarant control, that specified
actions of the association or executive board, as described in a recorded instrument
executed by the declarant, be approved by the declarant before they become effective.
(e) Not later than sixty
days after conveyance of twenty-five percent (25%) of the
units which may be created to unit owners other than a declarant, at least one member
and not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the members of the executive board
must be elected by unit owners other than the declarant. Not later than sixty
days after conveyance of fifty percent (50%) of the units which may be created to
unit owners other than a declarant, not less than one-third (⅓) of the members of
the executive board must be elected by unit owners other than the declarant.
(f) Not later than the termination of any period of declarant control, the unit owners
shall elect an executive board of at least three
members, at least a majority
of whom must be unit owners. The executive board shall elect the officers. The executive
board members and officers shall take office upon election.
(g) Notwithstanding any provision of the declaration or bylaws to the contrary, the unit
owners, by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of all persons present and entitled to vote at any
meeting of the unit owners at which a quorum is present, may remove any member of
the executive board with or without cause, other than a member appointed by the declarant.
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