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The actual law · California
Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 4000–6150), full text. This is the law your board answers to — read it yourself, then use the owner guides to see what it means in practice.
California's unified common interest development statute. Governs condominium projects, planned developments, stock cooperatives, and community apartment projects and their associations. Covers definitions and governing documents, assessments, the assessment lien and its nonjudicial or judicial foreclosure (subject to a $1,800 / 12-month threshold), records inspection, resale disclosure to prospective purchasers, secret-ballot elections, the open-meeting act, and member discipline and monetary penalties. Renumbered into the 4000-series effective January 1, 2014.
The translation
The statute is the authority; the guides are the translation. Each one walks a real owner problem through the California sections that control it.
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