HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2584        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1241

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the removal of a trustee of condominium or homeowner associations..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 11 of Chapter 183A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting the following subsection :-

(o)   An elected trustee may be removed before the expiration of his/her term of office, with or without cause, by a vote of the unit owners at a meeting duly called where the unit owners representing a simple majority percentage interest of more than 50 per cent of those present vote in favor of removal.  Said unit owners may also vote at said meeting to elect a replacement.