New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 26 - PLANNED REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FULL DISCLOSURE ACT REGULATIONS
Subchapter 8 - COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
Section 5:26-8.2 - Association powers and responsibilities
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Subject to the master deed, declaration of covenants, bylaws, and restrictions or other instruments of creation, the association may do all that it is legally entitled to do under the laws applicable to its form of organization. The executive board of the association may act in all instances on behalf of the association.
(b) The association shall discharge its powers in a manner that protects and furthers the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the community.
(c) The association shall provide a fair and efficient procedure for the resolution of disputes between individual unit owners and the association, and between different unit owners, that shall be readily available as an alternative to litigation.
(d) All meetings of the association that are required by law to be open to all unit owners shall be held at a location within the development or, if there is no suitable meeting room within the development, at a suitable meeting room either elsewhere in the municipality in which the development is located or in an adjoining municipality.
(e) Members of the executive board appointed by the developer shall be liable as fiduciaries to the unit owners for their acts or omissions.
(f) During control of the executive board of the association by the developer, copies of the annual audit of association funds shall be available onsite for inspection and reproduction by owners and/or their authorized representatives.