Other Florida Condo Docs

Research by Richard E. Gordon
Last updated: February 23, 2010
email: richard@gordonrichard.com

Condo Docs of other association. As we work on revising and updating our own Condo Docs, we will find help in looking at the Docs of other Florida condo association. Are there Condo Docs from other Florida associations online and made available to the general public?

1. First, as an essential guide to revising our own condo docs, we should read carefully the 2009 Florida Statutes Chapter 718 which serves as a model of what condo docs should contain.
2. Florida Club Condo Association rules and regulations, including items on (a) acceptable trucks, (2) installation of satellite dishes, (3) pool rules.
3. Bylaws of Lenbrook Homeowners Association of Pinellas County. I found especially interesting Article XIV that said, "These bylaws may be amended, at a regular or special meeting of the members, by a vote of two-thirds majority of a quorum of members present in person or proxy." The Lenbrook Homeowners Association displays their documents on a website that we, too, might consider for displaying our own documents, Docstoc.
4. Bay Arbor Condo Association documents. Pages 3, 4 and 5 give the Tables of Contents.
5. Homeowners Association of Indian Rocks Beach. I would like to see this article incorporated into our own documents:
   ARTICLE XIV ELIMINATING PERSONAL LIABILITY: Officers and the Board of Directors shall have no personal liability to the Homeowners
   Association of Indian Rocks Beach, Inc. for damages for breach of fiduciary duty as an Officer or Board member. This provision does not eliminate or limit the liability of an Officer or Board member for acts or omissions, which involve intentional misconduct,
   fraud, or a knowing violation of law. We do have a similar article in our own docs, but the wording is not as clear. RG
6. Rules and regulations of the Seascape Condominiums in Tarpon Springs.
7. South Lake II Condominium Declarations in West Palm Beach, Florida. I found especially interesting in these docs the regulation regarding guests: "Family members: Guests, who are immediate family members, may occupy condominium units upon presentation to the Board of Directors of the Association of written permission by the owner." In this case, unlike our own condo docs, owners may allow brothers, sisters, children to occupy the owners' condos even when the owners are absent.
8. For a good example of how to set up amendments to be voted on by Association members, I suggest you see the voting document distributed to its members by the Cloverleaf Condominium Association.