2019 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 28. PROPERTY
514B. Condominiums
514B-125 Board meetings.
§514B-125 Board meetings. (a) All meetings of the board, other than executive sessions, shall be open to all members of the association, and association members who are not on the board shall be permitted to participate in any deliberation or discussion, other than executive sessions, pursuant to owner participation rules adopted by the board.
(b) Following any election of board members by the association, the board may, at the board's next regular meeting or at a duly noticed special meeting, establish rules for owner participation in any deliberation or discussion at board meetings, other than executive sessions. A board that establishes such rules pursuant to this subsection:
(1) Shall notify all owners of these rules; and
(2) May amend these rules at any regular or duly noticed special meeting of the board; provided that all owners shall be notified of any adopted amendments.
(c) The board, by majority vote, may adjourn a meeting and reconvene in executive session to discuss and vote upon matters:
(1) Concerning personnel;
(2) Concerning litigation in which the association is or may become involved;
(3) Necessary to protect the attorney-client privilege of the association; or
(4) Necessary to protect the interests of the association while negotiating contracts, leases, and other commercial transactions.
The general nature of any business to be considered in executive session shall first be announced in open session.
(d) All board meetings shall be conducted in accordance with the most recent edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. Unless otherwise provided in the declaration or bylaws, a board may permit any meeting to be conducted by any means of communication through which all directors participating may simultaneously hear each other during the meeting. A director participating in a meeting by this means is deemed to be present in person at the meeting. If permitted by the board, any unit owner may participate in a meeting conducted by a means of communication through which all participants may simultaneously hear each other during the meeting, provided that the board may require that the unit owner pay for the costs associated with the participation.
(e) The board shall meet at least once a year. Notice of all board meetings shall be posted by the managing agent, resident manager, or a member of the board, in prominent locations within the project seventy-two hours prior to the meeting or simultaneously with notice to the board. The notice shall include a list of business items expected to be on the meeting agenda.
(f) A director shall not vote by proxy at board meetings.
(g) A director shall not vote at any board meeting on any issue in which the director has a conflict of interest. A director who has a conflict of interest on any issue before the board shall disclose the nature of the conflict of interest prior to a vote on that issue at the board meeting, and the minutes of the meeting shall record the fact that a disclosure was made.
"Conflict of interest", as used in this subsection, means an issue in which a director has a direct personal or pecuniary interest not common to other members of the association. [L 2004, c 164, pt of §2; am L 2005, c 93, §7; am L 2017, c 81, §3]
Case Notes
Where petitioners (1) presented no evidence that when director voted in favor of the pricing policy, which would set the prices at which the defendant Association would sell the leased fee interests, a real or seeming incompatibility existed between the director's private interests and the director's fiduciary duties (2) did not establish that director had a "direct personal or pecuniary interest not common to other members of the Association" and (3) company that director allegedly had potential involvement in was no longer involved in the purchase of the leased fee interest, director did not have a conflict of interest when director voted. 121 H. 474, 221 P.3d 452 (2009).
