Condo Tribunal gains jurisdiction over meeting-requisition disputes and gets a $50,000 damages cap

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Upcoming amendments expand the Condominium Authority Tribunal's jurisdiction to cover disputes about the process of requisitioning or calling owner meetings — including notice requirements, preliminary notices, materials submitted to the board, meeting timing, and reimbursement of an owner's reasonable costs. The new jurisdiction is explicitly limited to pre-meeting process steps: disputes about what happens at the meeting itself, advance voting procedures, or ballot and proxy forms are excluded. Separately, the Tribunal's damage award authority is capped at $50,000, and this limit applies to all proceedings before the Tribunal regardless of when they started. Condominium corporations, boards, and unit owners involved in meeting-requisition disputes should be aware that the Tribunal will become a forum for resolving those process-related disagreements, and that any damages claims are subject to the new ceiling.

Who this affects: condominium unit owners · condominium corporation boards · condominium property managers · owners seeking to requisition a meeting