Bill Text: MN HF362 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Common interest community unit owners allowed to obtain copies of association records, and record copying access and charges specified.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-03-30 - Secretary of State Chapter 10 03/29/11 [HF362 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF362-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 10--H.F.No. 362

An act

relating to real property; allowing common interest community unit
owners to obtain copies of association records; specifying access to and charges
for copying records;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-118.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-118, is amended to read:
515B.3-118 ASSOCIATION RECORDS.
The association shall keep adequate records of its membership, unit owners
meetings, board of directors meetings, committee meetings, contracts, leases and
other agreements to which the association is a party, and material correspondence and
memoranda relating to its operations. The association shall keep financial records
sufficiently detailed to enable the association to comply with sections 515B.3-106(b)
and 515B.4-107. All records, except records relating to information that was the basis
for closing a board meeting under section 515B.3-103, paragraph (g), shall be made
reasonably available for examination by any unit owner or the unit owner's authorized
agent, subject to the applicable statutes. The association must provide copies in paper
or electronic form as requested by the owner or authorized agent, provided that the
association is not required to provide copies in electronic form if the records are not
maintained in that form by the association. The association may require the unit owner or
the authorized agent to pay a fee for copies, which must not exceed:
(1) the actual costs of making or electronically transmitting the copies and searching
for and retrieving the requested records, including the cost of agent or employee time
for responding to the request; or
(2) if 100 or fewer pages of black and white, letter or legal size paper copies are
requested, no more than 25 cents for each page copied, instead of actual costs.
Presented to the governor March 25, 2011
Signed by the governor March 29, 2011, 12:58 p.m.