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Uniform Condominium Act

Texas · PR · §§ 82.001 to 82.164 · 66 sections

Overview

This act establishes a comprehensive statutory framework for the creation, governance, and termination of condominiums, setting out how a condominium is legally formed through a recorded declaration with plats and plans that fix unit boundaries, allocate interests in the common elements, and apportion voting rights and common expense liability. It governs the developer's role during the build-out period — reserved development rights, use of units for sales, transfer of special declarant rights, and the association's ability to terminate declarant-negotiated contracts and leases — alongside owners' rights to alter, subdivide, or relocate the boundaries of their units, and easement rights across the property. It also creates and empowers a unit owners' association with a board, officers, bylaws, and meeting and quorum requirements, and addresses amendment of the declaration, upkeep obligations, protections for secured lenders, eminent domain, master associations, and the merger, consolidation, or termination of condominiums.

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In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 56 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 964 SW2D 680 - Dickerson v. DeBarbieris

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Alabama, Pennsylvania

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