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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Name>Blanca Rubio</ns0:Name>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Sections 5655 and 5690 of, and to add Section 4755 to, the Civil Code, relating to common interest developments. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Common Interest Developments: governing documents: assessments.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the management and operation of common interest developments. Existing law limits the authority of the governing documents, as defined, to regulate the use of a member’s separate interest.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would prohibit the governing documents from imposing restrictions on a member’s use of public roads, except as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law requires that a common interest development be managed by an association and requires that the association levy assessments to fulfill its obligations. Existing law provides that assessments of the association, late charges, reasonable costs of collection, attorney’s fees, and interest, as specified, are a debt of a member at the time the assessment or other sums are levied. Existing law requires that an association provide a
member making a payment a receipt, upon request, that indicates the date of payment and the person who received it and to provide a mailing address for overnight payment of assessments in the annual statement.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would require the association to notify the members by certified mail, return receipt requested, of a change of a person authorized to receive payment of assessments within 60 days of the change.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law provides that assessments, including the costs of collection, late charges, and interest, are a lien on the member’s separate interest when the association records a notice of delinquent assessment and follows a specified process, including providing the owner of record a specified notice, at least 30 days prior to recording a lien upon the separate interest. Existing law requires that an association that fails to comply with these procedures recommence the required notice process, prior to recording a lien, and bear the cost of recommencing the notice process.</html:p>
<html:p>The
bill would make the association board liable to the member for specified costs and penalties, if the association fails to comply with these procedures.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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Section 4755 is added to the
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, to read:
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<html:p>Except for restrictions to enforce public health and safety standards and requirements imposed by local authorities, the governing documents shall not impose restrictions on a member’s use of public roads.</html:p>
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Section 5655 of the
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(a)
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Any payments made by the owner of a separate interest toward a debt described in subdivision (a) of Section 5650 shall first be applied to the assessments owed, and, only after the assessments owed are paid in full shall the payments be applied to the fees and costs of collection, attorney’s fees, late charges, or interest.
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(b)
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When an owner makes a payment, the owner may request a receipt and the association shall provide it. The receipt shall indicate the date of payment and the person who received it.
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(c)
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The association shall provide a mailing address for overnight payment of assessments. The address shall be provided in the annual policy statement.
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(d)
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The association shall notify the members by certified mail, return receipt requested, of a change of a person authorized to receive payment of assessments within 60 days of the change.
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Section 5690 of the
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(a)
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An association that fails to comply with the procedures set forth in this article shall, prior to recording a lien, recommence the required notice process. Any costs associated with recommencing the notice process shall be borne by the association and not by the owner of a separate interest.
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(b)
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If an association fails to comply with the procedures set forth in this article, the board shall be liable to the owner of the separate interest for both of the following:
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(1)
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The reconveyance fee and any costs of the owner of the separate interest associated with the association’s
failure to comply with the procedures set forth in this article.
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(2)
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A civil penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
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