New York Real Property Law Article 9-B - Condominium Act

• 339-d - Short Title.
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "condominium act."
• 339-e - Definitions.
  As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Building" means a multi-unit building or buildings, or a group of buildings whether or...
• 339-f - Application of Article.
  1. This article shall be applicable only to property the sole owner or all the owners of which submit the same to the provisions hereof...
• 339-g - Status of Units.
  Each unit, together with its common interest, shall for all purposes constitute real property.
• 339-h - Ownership of Units.
  Each unit owner shall be entitled to the exclusive ownership and possession of his unit.
• 339-i - Common Elements.
  1. Each unit shall have appurtenant thereto a common interest as expressed in the declaration. Such interest shall be (i) in the approximate proportion that...
• 339-j - Compliance With By-Laws and Rules and Regulations.
  Each unit owner shall comply strictly with the by-laws and with rules, regulations, resolutions and decisions adopted pursuant thereto. Failure to comply with any of...
• 339-k - Certain Work Prohibited.
  No unit owner shall do any work which would jeopardize the soundness or safety of the property, reduce the value thereof or impair any easement...
• 339-l - Liens Against Common Elements; Liens Against Units; Liens for Labor Performed or Materials Furnished.
  1. Subsequent to recording the declaration and while the property remains subject to this article, no lien of any nature shall thereafter arise or be...
• 339-m - Common Profits and Expenses.
  The common profits of the property shall be distributed among, and the common expenses shall be charged to, the unit owners according to their respective...
• 339-n - Contents of Declaration.
  The declaration shall contain the following particulars: 1. A statement of intention to submit the property to the provisions of this article. 2. Description of...
• 339-o - Contents of Deeds and Leases of Units.
  Deeds and leases of units shall include the following particulars: 1. Description of the land as provided in subsection two of section three hundred thirty-nine-n...
• 339-p - Copy of Floor Plans to Be Filed.
  Simultaneously with the recording of the declaration there shall be filed in the office of the recording officer a set of the floor plans of...
• 339-q - Filing With Board.
  True copies of the floor plans, the declaration, the by-laws and any rules and regulations shall be kept on file in the office of the...
• 339-r - Blanket Mortgages and Other Blanket Liens Affecting a Unit At Time of First Conveyance.
  At the time of the first conveyance of each unit, every mortgage and other lien affecting such unit and any other unit shall be paid...
• 339-s - Recording.
  1. The declaration, any amendment or amendments thereof, and every instrument affecting the property or any unit included within the meaning of "conveyance" as used...
• 339-t - Withdrawal From Provisions of This Article.
  If withdrawal of the property from this article is authorized by at least eighty per cent in number and in common interest of the units,...
• 339-u - By-Laws.
  The operation of the property shall be governed by by-laws, a true copy of which shall be annexed to the declaration. No modification of or...
• 339-v - Contents of By-Laws.
  1. The by-laws shall provide for at least the following: (a) The nomination and election of a board of managers, the number of persons constituting...
• 339-w - Books of Receipts and Expenditures; Availability for Examination.
  The manager or board of managers, as the case may be, shall keep detailed, accurate records, in chronological order, of the receipts and expenditures arising...
• 339-x - Waiver of Use of Common Elements; Abandonment of Unit; Conveyance to Board of Managers.
  No unit owner may exempt himself from liability for his common charges by waiver of the use or enjoyment of any of the common elements...
• 339-y - Separate Taxation.
  1. (a) With respect to all property submitted to the provisions of this article other than property which is the subject of a qualified leasehold...
• 339-z - Lien for Common Charges; Priority; Exoneration of Grantor and Grantee.
  The board of managers, on behalf of the unit owners, shall have a lien on each unit for the unpaid common charges thereof, together with...
• 339-Aa - Lien for Common Charges; Duration; Foreclosure.
  The lien provided for in the immediately preceding section shall be effective from and after the filing in the office of the recording officer in...
• 339-Bb - Insurance.
  The board of managers shall, if required by the declaration, the by-laws or by a majority of the unit owners, insure the building against loss...
• 339-Cc - Repair or Reconstruction.
  1. Except as hereinafter provided, damage to or destruction of the building shall be promptly repaired and reconstructed by the board of managers, using the...
• 339-Dd - Actions.
  Actions may be brought or proceedings instituted by the board of managers in its discretion, on behalf of two or more of the unit owners,...
• 339-Ee - Effect of Other Laws.
  1. All units of a property which shall be submitted to the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be cooperative interests in realty...
• 339-Ff - Mortgage Investments on Units by State Agencies, Insurers, Banking Organizations and Fiduciaries; Limitation to First Mortgages.
  (a) The following persons: (1) public officers, bodies of the state, municipalities, and municipal subdivisions, (2) persons doing an insurance business (as defined by section...
• 339-Gg - Severability.
  If any provision of this article or any section, sentence, clause, phrase or word, or the application thereof in any circumstance is held invalid, the...
• 339-Hh - Reservation of Power.
  The legislature reserves the right to alter, amend, suspend or repeal in whole or in part this article. Any such change in this article shall...
• 339-Ii - Construction.
  This article shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes thereof.
• 339-Jj - Borrowing by Board of Managers.
  1. To the extent authorized by the declaration or the by-laws, the board of managers, on behalf of the unit owners, may incur debt. In...
• 339-Kk - Rents.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "non-occupying owner" shall mean a unit owner in a condominium association who does not occupy the dwelling unit....

Last modified: February 3, 2019