H0073. Residential Properties

Summary

An act relating to residential properties; amending s. 399.02, F.S.; exempting certain elevators from specific code update requirements; amending s. 718.111, F.S.; revising requirements for an association's approval of land purchases and recreational leases; revising reconstruction costs for which unit owners are responsible and authorizing the costs to be collected in a specified manner; requiring an association to repair or replace as a common expense certain condominium property damaged by an insurable event; requiring an association to allow a member or the member's representative to use certain portable devices to make electronic copies of association records; prohibiting the association from charging the member or representative for using the portable device; authorizing a condominium association to print and distribute a member directory under certain conditions; revising requirements for the preparation of an association's annual financial statement; amending s. 718.112, F.S.; revising terms of members of an association's board of administrators and revising eligibility criteria for candidates; revising condominium unit owner meeting notice requirements; providing for nonapplicability to associations governing timeshare condominiums of certain provisions relating to elections of board members; revising recordkeeping requirements of a condominium association board; requiring commencement of challenges to an election within a specified period; providing requirements for challenging the failure of a board to duly notice and hold the required board meeting or to file the required petition for a recall; providing requirements for recalled board members to challenge the recall; prohibiting the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation from accepting recall petitions for filing under certain circumstances; amending s. 718.113, F.S.; providing requirements for a condominium association board relating to the installation of hurricane shutters, impact glass, code-compliant windows or doors, and other types of code-compliant hurricane protection under certain circumstances; amending s. 718.115, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 718.303, F.S.; revising provisions relating to imposing remedies against a noncompliant or delinquent condominium unit owner or member; amending s. 718.403, F.S.; providing requirements for the completion of phase condominiums; creating s. 718.406, F.S.; providing definitions; providing requirements for condominiums created within condominium parcels; providing for the establishment of primary condominium and secondary condominium units; providing requirements for association declarations; authorizing a primary condominium association to provide insurance and adopt hurricane shutter or hurricane protection specifications under certain conditions; providing requirements relating to assessments; providing for resolution of conflicts between primary condominium declarations and secondary condominium declarations; providing requirements relating to common expenses due the primary condominium association; amending s. 718.5011, F.S.; revising the restriction on officers and full-time employees of the ombudsman from engaging in other businesses or professions; amending s. 719.104, F.S.; providing requirements for the maintenance of the official records of the association; authorizing records to be made available to unit owners in an electronic format; providing a civil penalty for the denial of a request to view records; requiring an association to allow a member or the member's authorized representative to use certain portable devices to make electronic copies of association records; prohibiting the association from charging the member or authorized representative for using the portable device; authorizing a cooperative association to print and distribute a member directory under certain conditions; specifying additional records that are not accessible to unit owners; amending s. 719.1055, F.S.; revising provisions relating to the amendment of cooperative documents; providing legislative findings and a finding of compelling state interest; providing criteria for consent or joinder to an amendment; requiring notice regarding proposed amendments to mortgagees; providing criteria for notification; providing for voiding certain amendments; amending s. 719.106, F.S.; revising applicability of certain board of administration meeting requirements; requiring commencement of challenges to an election within a specified period; specifying certification or educational requirements for a newly elected or appointed cooperative board director; providing requirements for challenging the failure of a board to duly notice and hold the required board meeting or to file the required petition for a recall; providing requirements for recalled board members to challenge the recall; prohibiting the division from accepting recall petitions for filing under certain circumstances; providing education requirements for board members; amending s. 719.303, F.S.; revising provisions relating to imposing remedies against a noncompliant or delinquent cooperative unit owner or member; amending s. 719.501, F.S.; authorizing the division to provide training and educational programs for cooperative association board members and unit owners; amending s. 720.303, F.S.; requiring an association to allow a member or the member's representative to use certain portable devices to make electronic copies of association records; prohibiting the association from charging the member or representative for using the portable device; authorizing a homeowners' association to print and distribute a member directory under certain conditions; revising requirements for the preparation of an association's annual financial statement; revising the types of records that are not accessible to homeowners' association members and parcel owners; providing requirements for challenging the failure of a board to duly notice and hold the required board meeting or to file the required petition for a recall; providing requirements for recalled board members to challenge the recall; prohibiting the division from accepting recall petitions for filing under certain circumstances; amending s. 720.305, F.S.; revising provisions relating to imposing remedies against a noncompliant or delinquent homeowners' association member and parcel owner; amending s. 720.306, F.S.; revising provisions relating to the amendment of homeowners' association declarations; providing legislative findings and a finding of compelling state interest; providing criteria for consent or joinder to an amendment; requiring notice to mortgagees regarding proposed amendments; providing criteria for notification; providing for voiding certain amendments; revising provisions relating to right to speak at a homeowners' association meeting; requiring commencement of challenges to an election within a 141 specified period; providing an effective date. 142