No. SB 1744
Filed under Housing.
Official Records of Condominium Associations, Residential Cooperative Associations, and Homeowners’ Associations; Revising the list of official records that a condominium association is required to maintain to include audio conference recordings; revising association meeting requirements and authorizing associations to use audioconferencing, in addition to videoconferencing, or to use both; revising the emergency powers of a condominium association to include the power to conduct meetings and elections via audioconferencing; revising the emergency powers of a residential cooperative association and a homeowners’ association, respectively, to include the power to conduct meetings and elections via audioconferencing, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCondominium, cooperative, and homeowners' associations must now record all meetings held by audio conference. These audio files become official records that the association is legally required to maintain.
Associations may now conduct board, committee, and unit owner meetings using audio-only technology. Members participating via audio count toward quorum and may vote as if physically present.
During declared emergencies, associations may conduct meetings and elections via audioconferencing. This expands emergency powers beyond the previously allowed videoconferencing and telephone options.
Meeting notices must now include a conference telephone number and a hyperlink. This ensures unit owners can access audio-only meetings and participate in the association's governance.
AIAssociations must now keep audio recordings of meetings as official records, not just video.
AIBoards may now hold meetings via audio conference, with remote members counting toward quorum and voting.
AIUnit owner meetings, including annual meetings, may now be conducted via audio conference, requiring a quorum of the board to be physically present.
AIDuring a state of emergency, associations may conduct meetings and elections via audio conference, not just video.
AINew statutory definition clarifies that an audio conference is a real-time, audio-based meeting between two or more people in different locations.
AIDuring emergencies, unit owners retain access to association records, explicitly including audio or video recordings.
AIResidential cooperative boards may now conduct meetings via audio conference, with remote members counting toward quorum.
AIDuring emergencies, residential cooperatives may conduct meetings and elections via audio conference.