HOA and condo meetings, votes, and board control in Connecticut

Section 47-250 requires a CIOA association to hold an annual owners' meeting and to call a special meeting on the request of the president, a majority of the board, or owners holding 20% of the votes (or a lower share the bylaws set), with 10 to 60 days' notice stating the agenda. Board meetings are presumptively open to owners, with only narrow, enumerated grounds for a true executive session — attorney consultation, active or potential litigation, personnel matters, sensitive contract negotiations, or privacy — and the board must meet at least twice a year at or near the community. The statute is blunt about gamesmanship: the board 'may not use incidental or social gatherings ... to evade the open meeting requirements.' Minutes must record how each board member voted on final actions, unless the vote was unanimous or unopposed.

Section 47-251 sets quorum at 20% of the association's votes for an owners' meeting and a majority of the board's votes for a board meeting, unless your bylaws set something different. Section 47-252 governs the vote itself: a majority of votes cast decides most matters, directors are elected by plurality, and proxies are tightly regulated. A proxy is void if it isn't dated, or if it purports to allow revocation without actual notice to whoever is presiding at the meeting — the statute permits revoking a proxy only that way. A proxy expires one year after its date unless it states a shorter term, and no single person may cast more than 15% of the association's total votes through undirected proxies, a real structural check against one holder consolidating control.

Removing a board member, and who controls the board early on

Section 47-261d lets owners remove any board member or officer, with or without cause, by majority vote at a quorum meeting or by ballot, as long as removal was actually listed on the meeting or ballot notice and the member facing removal gets a chance to speak first. The one exception: a member the declarant appointed can't be voted out by owners while declarant control is still running. On that control period, § 47-245(d) caps it at whichever comes first: 60 days after 60% of units are conveyed to outside owners, two years after the declarant stops selling units, two years after the last new unit was added, or the declarant's own written surrender — and § 47-245(e) entitles owners to elect at least a third of the board within 60 days of owning a third of the units. Older, 1976-Act condos run on a parallel but separately numbered timeline in § 47-74a. Notably, § 47-245(j)-(k) bars anyone from offering, or a board candidate from accepting, 'any item of value' tied to how they'd vote once elected, and bars a managing agent from campaigning for board candidates, a direct anti-corruption rule most states don't spell out this explicitly.