2012 US Code
Title 15 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 62 - CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSION PROTECTION AND ABUSE RELIEF (§§ 3601 - 3616)
Section 3609 - Void lease or contract provisions

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Publication TitleUnited States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CategoryBills and Statutes
CollectionUnited States Code
SuDoc Class NumberY 1.2/5:
Contained WithinTitle 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 62 - CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSION PROTECTION AND ABUSE RELIEF
Sec. 3609 - Void lease or contract provisions
Containssection 3609
Date2012
Laws in Effect as of DateJanuary 15, 2013
Positive LawNo
Dispositionstandard
Source CreditPub. L. 96-399, title VI, §610, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1678.
Statutes at Large Reference94 Stat. 1678
Public Law ReferencesPublic Law 96-399

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CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSION PROTECTION AND ABUSE RELIEF - 15 U.S.C. § 3609 (2012)
§3609. Void lease or contract provisions

Any provision in any lease or contract requiring unit owners or the owners’ association, in any conversion project involving a contract meeting the requirements of section 3607 of this title of in any project involving a lease meeting the requirements of section 3608 of this title, to reimburse, regardless of outcome, the developer, his successor, or affiliate of the developer for attorneys’ fees or money judgments, in a suit between unit owners or the owners’ association and the developer arising under the lease or agreement, is against public policy and void.

(Pub. L. 96–399, title VI, §610, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1678.)

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 8, 1980, except that prohibition included in this section as it relates to a lease with respect to which a cause of action may be established under section 3608 of this title, shall be effective one year after Oct. 8, 1980, see section 618 of Pub. L. 96–399, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.

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