2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47 - Land and Land Titles
Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act
Section 47-239 - Master associations.

(a) If the declaration provides that any of the powers described in section 47-244 are to be exercised by, or may be delegated to, a profit or nonprofit corporation or unincorporated association that exercises those or other powers on behalf of one or more common interest communities or for the benefit of the unit owners of one or more common interest communities, all provisions of this chapter applicable to unit owners’ associations apply to any such corporation or unincorporated association, except as modified by this section.

(b) Unless it is acting in the capacity of an association described in section 47-243, a master association may exercise the powers set forth in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 47-244 only to the extent expressly permitted in the declarations of common interest communities which are part of the master association or expressly described in the delegations of power from those common interest communities to the master association.

(c) If the declaration of any common interest community provides that the executive board may delegate certain powers to a master association, the members of the executive board have no liability for the acts or omissions of the master association with respect to those powers following delegation.

(d) The rights and responsibilities of unit owners with respect to the unit owners’ association set forth in sections 47-245, 47-250, 47-251, 47-252 and 47-254 apply in the conduct of the affairs of a master association only to persons who elect the board of a master association, whether or not those persons are otherwise unit owners within the meaning of this chapter.

(e) Even if a master association is also an association described in section 47-243, the certificate of incorporation or other instrument creating the master association and the declaration of each common interest community the powers of which are assigned by the declaration or delegated to the master association, may provide that the executive board of the master association shall be elected after the period of declarant control in any of the following ways:

(1) All unit owners of all common interest communities subject to the master association may elect all members of the master association’s executive board.

(2) All members of the executive boards of all common interest communities subject to the master association may elect all members of the master association’s executive board.

(3) All unit owners of each common interest community subject to the master association may elect specified members of the master association’s executive board.

(4) All members of the executive board of each common interest community subject to the master association may elect specified members of the master association’s executive board.

(f) No person shall provide or offer to any member of the master association’s executive board or a person seeking election as a member of the master association’s executive board, and no member of the master association’s executive board or a person seeking election as a member of the master association’s executive board shall accept, any item of value based on any understanding that the vote, official action or judgment of such member or person seeking election would be or has been influenced thereby.

(P.A. 83-474, S. 40, 96; P.A. 11-195, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 11-195 added Subsec. (f) re prohibition on providing or offering item of value to member of master association’s executive board or person seeking election as a member of such board, and on accepting such item.