2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 27A Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (1994)
Chapter 1 General Provisions
§ 204 Preexisting common interest communities

1-204. Preexisting common interest communities

(a)(1) Unless excepted under section 1-203 of this title, the following sections of this title apply to a common interest community created in this state before January 1, 1999: sections 1-103, 1-105, 1-106, 1-107, 2-103, 2-104, 2-121, 3-102(a)(1) through (6) and (11) through (16), 3-111, 3-116, 3-118, 4-109 and 4-117 to the extent necessary to construe the applicable sections. The sections described in this subdivision apply only to events and circumstances occurring after December 31, 1998 and do not invalidate existing provisions of the declarations, bylaws, plats or plans of those common interest communities.

(2) Unless excepted under section 1-203 of this title, the following sections of this title apply to a common interest community created in this state before January 1, 1999: sections 1-206; 2-102, 2-117(h) and (i), 2-124, 3-103, 3-108, 3-110, and 3-124. The sections described in this subdivision apply only to events and circumstances occurring after December 31, 2011 and do not invalidate existing provisions of the declarations, bylaws, plats, or plans of those common interest communities.

(b) If a planned community created within this state before the effective date of this title contains no more than 24 units and is not subject to development rights, it is subject only to sections 1-105, 1-106, and 1-107 of this title unless the declaration is amended in conformity with applicable law and with the procedures and requirements of the declaration to take advantage of the provisions of section 1-206 of this title, in which case all the sections enumerated in subsection (a) of this section apply to that planned community. (Added 1997, No. 104 (Adj. Sess.), 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1999; amended 2009, No. 155 (Adj. Sess.), 8, eff. Jan. 1, 2012; 2011, No. 75 (Adj. Sess.), 107, eff. March 7, 2012.)