Proxy Voting In Condominium Associations - 2011-R-0417
You asked about proxy voting in condominium associations, including a summary of Connecticut law and whether other states allow or prohibit proxy voting.

Common Interest Ownership Act-Approval of Budgets and Capital Expenses - 2011-R-0315. You asked about recent changes regarding the process for condominium associations to approve budgets or capital expenses.

Changes to Insurance Requirements for Condominium Associations - 2010-R-0378. You asked several questions about PA 09-225's changes to insurance requirements for condominium associations, particularly the requirements regarding owner-installed improvements and betterments. The questions and answers appear below.

Changes to Common Interest Ownership Act Regarding Amendments to Declaration - 2010-R-0238. You asked about changes to the Common Interest Ownership Act regarding the process to amend the community's declaration certificate.

Condominium Act - Rights of Unit Owners -
2009-R-0123. You asked what actions unit owners can take under the Condominium Act to contest decisions and actions taken by the association of unit owners' board of directors. You also asked if the act authorizes a unit owner to repair significant damage to his unit (but not the common elements) without the board's approval. Your questions assume the unit owner is in a condominium that is governed by the Condominium Act.

Compensating Condominium Owners for Municipal Services - 2009-R-0138
You asked if other states' laws allow municipalities to compensate condominium owners for trash pick up, snow plowing, or other municipal services they pay for through property taxes but do not receive.

Valuing Property for Assessment Purposes -
2009-R-0161

Qualifications of Condominium Officers - 2008-R-0007. You asked what recourse a condominium unit owner has when the executive board selects someone to be the treasurer who has several felony convictions on his record.

Condominiums - Flip Taxes - 2008-R-0107.
You asked for background information on “flip taxes” in connection with condominium unit sales. You also asked whether other states allow or mandate them.

Condominiums and Flag Displays - 2007-R-0249.
You asked about state laws regarding the internal rules that condominium associations may establish, and the right of a condominium owner to display an American flag.

Condominiums - Access to Association Records - 2007-R-0389. You asked what rights unit owners have to examine association records in condominiums created under the Unit Ownership Act and the Condominium Act.

Condominiums-Development Rights - 2007-R-0427
You asked how the Common Interest Ownership Act deals with development rights.

Petitions for Condominium Association Meetings - 2006-R-0561. You asked about the law regarding the ability of condominium unit owners to petition for an association or board of directors' meeting.

Common Interest Ownership Act - Voting Requirements, Proxy Voting, And Adoption of CIOA By Pre CIOA Condominiums - 2006-R-0586.
Regarding the common interest ownership act
(CIOA), you asked (1) for the voting requirements for various activities, (2) whether proxy voting is allowed or required, and (3) which condominiums have adopted CIOA in place of the old law that previously governed them.

Condominiums - Association's Duty to Provide Insurance - 2006-R-0593
You asked what responsibility a condominium association has regarding insuring condominium units in residential condominiums.

Condominiums and Code of Ethics - 2006-R-0630
You asked whether the statutes contain a code of ethics for members of a condominium association's board of directors.

Condominiums- Mergers and Amendments to Bylaws by Chapter 825 Condominiums - 2006-0728
You asked whether condominiums organized under Chapter 825 may merge with other condominiums organized under that chapter. You also asked whether the law prohibits unit owners of such condominiums from amending their bylaws to require that the unit owners of condominiums that create a master association vote for any budget for common expenses approved by the master association board.

Condominiums - Applicable Law - 2005-R-0348.
You asked (1) what sections, if any, of the common interest ownership act apply to large residential condominium developments created during the late 1960s and early 1970s; (2) can these condominiums opt to be governed by the current law; and (3) if so, what are some advantages of doing so.

Condominiums - Fees for Financial Information to Unit Owners - 2005-R-0725
You asked if the law allows or requires a condominium association to charge a unit owner a fee for providing financial information about the condominium, and if so, whether the law set any limits on the fee?

Property Insurance for Condominiums - 2004-R-0091.
You asked if Connecticut law requires a condominium association’s insurance policy to cover water damage to a unit owner’s property inside a condominium.

Laws Concerning Condominiums and Cooperatives - 2004-R-0885. You asked for a summary of laws concerning condominiums and cooperatives.

Condominiums - Duty of Association to Repair Common Elements - 2003-R-0562.
You asked what rights condominium unit owners have when the association of unit owners refuses to make necessary repairs to common elements. You asked whether unit owners could refuse to pay their common charges and instead put them in escrow when the association refuses to make needed repairs.