Real Estate & Property Law

Notice of HOA Meetings: 4 Days or 96 Hours - What Does it Mean?

What is the notice requirement for HOA open Board meetings in California? Boards must post notice or get it to homeowners (various forms allowed by Civil Code Section 1363.05 which you can look up on my webstite at http://www.californiacondoguru.com on the Resource Page/Davis Stirling Act) at least 4 days before the meeting.

So ... I have received two series of emails this week complaining because the Board in its posting fell short of 96 hrs. posted (for those of you slow on the uptake, 4X24=96).

One example was that the notice went up on the Common Area Board at 11am on Tuesday for a 1pm meeting on Friday. Thus, technically it was up there most of Tuesday, all of Wednesday, all of Thursday and more than 1/2 of Friday, not 96 hours, but arguably for the better of 4 days, not 4 - 24 hour days of course (but who has night vision???).

We could go round and round about this. If someone took this "egregious" error to court, I would hope the judge would say "Get a life." Of course, if there are other areas of abuse on the part of the Board that can be proved, that is a different story.

Full post as published by California Condo & HOA Law on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).