I was contacted by a board member of a resident owned cooperative earlier this month with a rather interesting situation. One of the unit owners was videotaping the board meetings and now wanted to broadcast those videotapes on the "in house" channel that served the community. Was the association’s board required to allow the unit
ROCs Beware: The Music Police Are On the Prowl
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The manager at one of the ROCs we represent recently sent me a "Performance License for RV Parks/Campgrounds" from a company called SESAC. The manager wanted to know whether SESAC had the right to insist that the community obtain a license in order to play live or recorded songs in SESAC’s music catalog…
A Few Important Differences in Florida’s Laws Governing Condominiums and Cooperatives
By Scott Gordon on
ROC managers, board members and the professionals that advise them quite often long for the "good old days" when the Florida Statutes governing condominium associations (Chapter 718) and cooperative associations (Chapter 719) were almost identical in provisions concerning elections, eligibility to run for the board, and waivers of financial reporting requirements.
Those days are, for…