Crist signs bill giving condo owners OK to make decisions about associations
DELRAY BEACH — Governor Charlie Crist joined County Commission Chairman Burt Aaronson, Legislative Delegation Chair Representative Maria Sachs and other guests June 24 at the county’s branch library on Hagen Ranch Road in West Delray Beach for a ceremonial signing of Senate Bill 1196.
Gov. Charlie Crist signs SB1196 into law as Commissioner Burt Aaronson and state Representatives Maria Sachs, Joseph Abruzzo, Mack Bernard and Kevin Rader look on.
The so-called “Distressed Condominium Relief Act” empowers condominium owners to make their own decisions about their associations. It takes effect July 1.
Among the bill’s provisions are those designed to:
- revise laws related to community associations, including condominium, homeowners’ and cooperative associations;
- permit condominium, cooperative, and homeowners’ associations to demand payment of any future regular assessments from the tenant of a unit or parcel owner and revises a mortgage lender’s liability for unpaid condominium assessments after a foreclosure by increasing the mortgage lender’s liability for unpaid assessments to 12 months, instead of the current six months; and
- revise elevator and fire safety requirements including a delay in the retrofit deadline for fire sprinklers in condominium and cooperative association common areas from Dec. 31, 2014 to until Dec. 31, 2019.
