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The actual law · Vermont
Vermont Common Interest Ownership Act (27A V.S.A. §§ 1-101 to 4-120) & Condominium Ownership Act (27 V.S.A. §§ 1301-1329, legacy), 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.
Definitions
Common areas and facilities
Compliance with covenants, bylaws, and administrative provisions
Liens against apartments or sites; removal from lien; effect of part payment
Contents of declaration
Contents of deeds of apartments or sites
The translation
The statute is the authority; the guides are the translation. Each one walks a real owner problem through the Vermont sections that control it.
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Copy of the floor plans to be filed
Blanket mortgages and other blanket liens affecting an apartment or site at time of first conveyance
Recording
Termination, dissolution
Contents of bylaws
Books of receipts and expenditures; availability for examination
Separate taxation
Priority of lien
Joint and several liability of grantor and grantee for unpaid common expenses
Insurance
Disposition of property; destruction or damage
Actions
Personal application
Definitions
Variation by agreement
Separate titles and taxation
Local ordinances, regulations, and building codes
Eminent domain
General principles of law applicable
Unconscionable agreement or term of contract
Remedies to be liberally administered
Adjustment of dollar amounts
Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
New common interest communities
Exception for small projects and limited expense liability planned communities
Preexisting common interest communities
Covered in an owner guide
Amendments to governing instruments
Applicability to nonresidential and mixed-use common interest communities
Out-of-state common interest communities
Small condominiums; exception; access to mixed funding sources
Other exempt real estate arrangements
Creation of common interest communities
Unit boundaries
Construction and validity of declaration and bylaws
Description of units
Contents of declaration for a common interest community
Leasehold common interest communities
Allocation of allocated interests
Limited common elements
Plats and plans
Exercise of development rights
Alterations of units
Covered in an owner guide
Relocation of boundaries between adjoining units
Subdivision of units
Easement for encroachments
Use for sales purposes
Easement rights
Amendment of declaration
Termination of common interest community
Rights of secured lenders
Master associations
Merger or consolidation of common interest communities
Addition of unspecified real estate
Master planned communities
Termination following catastrophe
Organization of unit owners’ association
Powers of unit owners’ association
Covered in an owner guide
Executive board members and officers
Transfer of special declarant rights
Termination of contracts and leases of declarant
Bylaws
Upkeep of common interest community
Meetings
Covered in an owner guide
Quorum
Covered in an owner guide
Voting; proxies; ballots
Covered in an owner guide
Tort and contract liability
Conveyance or encumbrance of common elements
Insurance
Surplus funds
Assessments for common expenses
Lien for sums due association; enforcement
Covered in an owner guide
Other liens
Association records
Covered in an owner guide
Association as trustee
Rules
Covered in an owner guide
Notice to unit owners
Removal of officers and directors
Covered in an owner guide
Adoption of budgets; special assessments
Litigation involving declarant
Waiver
Liability for public offering statement requirements
Public offering statement; general provisions
Common interest communities subject to development rights
Time shares
Conversion buildings
Common interest community securities
Resales of units
Escrow of deposits
Release of liens
Express warranties of quality
Implied warranties of quality
Exclusion or modification of implied warranties of quality
Statute of limitations for warranties
Effect of violations on rights of action
Covered in an owner guide
Declarant’s obligation to complete and restore
Substantial completion of units
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