1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; modifying provisions relating to courts and 
1.3 	common interest ownership;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, sections 279.37, 
1.4 	subdivision 8; 359.061, subdivisions 1, 2; 484.68, subdivision 3; 514.69; 514.70; 
1.5 	515B.1-102; 515B.1-103; 515B.1-116; 515B.2-109; 515B.2-110; 515B.2-121; 
1.6 	515B.2-124; 515B.3-102; 515B.3-104; 515B.3-105; 515B.3-114; 515B.3-115; 
1.7 	515B.4-102; 515B.4-115; 518B.01, subdivision 8; 525.091, subdivisions 1, 3; 
1.8 	proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 5B; 515B.
1.9 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.10 	ARTICLE 1
1.11 	JUDICIARY

1.12 	Section 1. [5B.11] LEGAL PROCEEDINGS; PROTECTIVE ORDER.
1.13 	If a program participant is involved in a legal proceeding as a party or witness, the 
1.14 	court or other tribunal may issue a protective order to prevent disclosure of information 
1.15 	that could reasonably lead to the discovery of the program participant's location.

1.16 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 279.37, subdivision 8, is amended to read:
1.17 		Subd. 8.Fees. The party or parties making such confession of judgment shall pay 
1.18 	the county auditor a fee as set by the county board to defray the costs of processing the 
1.19 	confession of judgment and making the annual billings required. Fees as set by the county 
1.20 	board shall be paid to the court administrator of the court for entry of judgment and for 
1.21 	the entry of each full or partial release thereof. The fees paid to the court administrator 
1.22 	under this section are in lieu of the fees provided for in section 357.021. Fees collected 
1.23 	under this sectionand shall be processed by the county and credited to the general revenue 
1.24 	fund of the county. 

2.1 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 359.061, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.2 		Subdivision 1.Resident notaries. The commission of every notary commissioned 
2.3 	under section 359.01, together with: (1) a signature that matches the first, middle, and 
2.4 	last name as listed on the notary's commission and shown on the notarial stamp, and (2) a 
2.5 	sample signature in the style in which the notary will actually execute notarial acts, shall 
2.6 	be recorded in the office of the court administrator of the district courtlocal registrar of 
2.7 	the notary's county of residence or in the county department to which duties relating to 
2.8 	notaries public have been assigned under section 485.27, in a record kept for that purpose.

2.9 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 359.061, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
2.10 		Subd. 2.Nonresident notaries. The commission of a nonresident notary must 
2.11 	be recorded in the Minnesota county the notary designates pursuant to section 359.01, 
2.12 	subdivision 2, clause (3), in the office of the court administrator of the district court of that 
2.13 	county or in the county department to which duties relating to notaries public have been 
2.14 	assigned under section 485.27.

2.15 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 484.68, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
2.16 		Subd. 3.Duties. The district administrator shall:
2.17 	(1) assist the chief judge in the performance of administrative duties;
2.18 	(2) manage the administrative affairs of the courts of the judicial district;
2.19 	(3) supervise the court administrators and other support personnel, except court 
2.20 	reporters, who serve in the courts of the judicial district and court reporters as agreed upon 
2.21 	with the collective bargaining representative. Court reporters who serve in the courts 
2.22 	of the judicial district and are appointed by individual judges shall remain under the 
2.23 	supervision of the judge who appointed them and serve at their pleasure;
2.24 	(4) comply with the requests of the state court administrator for statistical or other 
2.25 	information relating to the courts of the judicial district;
2.26 	(5) with the approval of the chief judge, determine the needs of the judges of the 
2.27 	district for office equipment necessary for the effective administration of justice and 
2.28 	develop a plan to make the equipment available to the judges of the district; the plan must 
2.29 	be submitted to the state court administrator for approval and determination of eligibility 
2.30 	for state funding under section 480.15, subdivision 12; and
2.31 	(6) perform any additional duties that are assigned by law or by the rules of court.

3.1 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 514.69, is amended to read:
3.2 	514.69 FILE WITH COURT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DISTRICT 
3.3 	COURT COUNTY.
3.4 		Subdivision 1.Perfection of hospital's lien. In order to perfect such lien, the 
3.5 	operator of such hospital, before, or within ten days after, such person shall have been 
3.6 	discharged therefrom, shall file in the office of the court administrator of the district court
3.7 	county office assigned this duty by the county board pursuant to section 485.27 of the 
3.8 	county in which such hospital shall be located a verified statement in writing setting forth 
3.9 	the name and address of such patient, as it shall appear on the records of such hospital, 
3.10 	the name and location of such hospital and the name and address of the operator thereof, 
3.11 	the dates of admission to and discharge of such patient therefrom, the amount claimed 
3.12 	to be due for such hospital care, and, to the best of claimant's knowledge, the names and 
3.13 	addresses of all persons, firms, or corporations claimed by such injured person, or the 
3.14 	legal representatives of such person, to be liable for damages arising from such injuries; 
3.15 	such claimant shall also, within one day after the filing of such claim or lien, mail a copy 
3.16 	thereof, by certified mail, to each person, firm, or corporation so claimed to be liable for 
3.17 	such damages to the address so given in such statement. The filing of such claim or 
3.18 	lien shall be notice thereof to all persons, firms, or corporations liable for such damages 
3.19 	whether or not they are named in such claim or lien.
3.20 		Subd. 2.Perfection of public assistance lien. In the case of public assistance liens 
3.21 	filed under section 256.015 or 256B.042, the state agency may perfect its lien by filing its 
3.22 	verified statement in the office of the court administratorcounty office assigned this duty 
3.23 	by the county board pursuant to section 485.27 in the county of financial responsibility for 
3.24 	the public assistance paid. The court administratorcounty office shall record the lien in 
3.25 	the same manner as provided in section 514.70. 

3.26 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 514.70, is amended to read:
3.27 	514.70 COURT ADMINISTRATOR COUNTY TO PROVIDE RECORD.
3.28 	The court administratorcounty office assigned this duty by the county board 
3.29 	pursuant to section 485.27 shall endorse thereon the date and hour of filing and, at the 
3.30 	expense of the county, shall provide a hospital lien book with proper index in which the 
3.31 	court administratorcounty office shall enter the date and hour of such filing, the names 
3.32 	and addresses of such hospital, the operators thereof and of such patient, the amount 
3.33 	claimed and the names and addresses of those claimed to be liable for damages. The 
3.34 	court administratorcounty office shall be paid $5 as a fee for such filing and $5 as a fee 
3.35 	for filing each lien satisfaction.

4.1 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 518B.01, subdivision 8, is amended to read:
4.2 		Subd. 8.Service; alternate service; publication; notice. (a) The petition and any 
4.3 	order issued under this section other than orders for dismissal shall be served on the 
4.4 	respondent personally. Orders for dismissal may be served personally or by certified mail. 
4.5 	In lieu of personal service of an order for protection, a law enforcement officer may serve 
4.6 	a person with a short form notification as provided in subdivision 8a.
4.7 	(b) When service is made out of this state and in the United States, it may be proved 
4.8 	by the affidavit of the person making the service. When service is made outside the United 
4.9 	States, it may be proved by the affidavit of the person making the service, taken before 
4.10 	and certified by any United States minister, charge d'affaires, commissioner, consul, or 
4.11 	commercial agent, or other consular or diplomatic officer of the United States appointed to 
4.12 	reside in the other country, including all deputies or other representatives of the officer 
4.13 	authorized to perform their duties; or before an office authorized to administer an oath 
4.14 	with the certificate of an officer of a court of record of the country in which the affidavit is 
4.15 	taken as to the identity and authority of the officer taking the affidavit.
4.16 	(c) If personal service cannot be made, the court may order service of the petition 
4.17 	and any order issued under this section by alternate means, or by publication, which 
4.18 	publication must be made as in other actions. The application for alternate service must 
4.19 	include the last known location of the respondent; the petitioner's most recent contacts 
4.20 	with the respondent; the last known location of the respondent's employment; the names 
4.21 	and locations of the respondent's parents, siblings, children, and other close relatives; 
4.22 	the names and locations of other persons who are likely to know the respondent's 
4.23 	whereabouts; and a description of efforts to locate those persons.
4.24 	The court shall consider the length of time the respondent's location has been 
4.25 	unknown, the likelihood that the respondent's location will become known, the nature 
4.26 	of the relief sought, and the nature of efforts made to locate the respondent. The court 
4.27 	shall order service by first class mail, forwarding address requested, to any addresses 
4.28 	where there is a reasonable possibility that mail or information will be forwarded or 
4.29 	communicated to the respondent.
4.30 	The court may also order publication, within or without the state, but only if it might 
4.31 	reasonably succeed in notifying the respondent of the proceeding. Service shall be deemed 
4.32 	complete 14 days after mailing or 14 days after court-ordered publication.
4.33 	(d) A petition and any order issued under this section, including the short form 
4.34 	notification, must include a notice to the respondent that if an order for protection is issued 
4.35 	to protect the petitioner or a child of the parties, upon request of the petitioner in any 
5.1 	parenting time proceeding, the court shall consider the order for protection in making a 
5.2 	decision regarding parenting time.

5.3 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 525.091, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
5.4 		Subdivision 1.Original documents. (a) The court administrator of any county upon 
5.5 	order of the judge exercising probate jurisdiction may destroy all the original documents 
5.6 	in any probate proceeding of record in the office after the file in such proceeding has 
5.7 	been closed provided the original or a Minnesota state archives commission approved 
5.8 	photographic, photostatic, microphotographic, microfilmed, digitally imaged, electronic, 
5.9 	or similarly reproduced copy of the original of the following enumerated documents in the 
5.10 	proceeding are on file in the office. After the file in the proceeding has been closed, only 
5.11 	the following enumerated documents need to be retained:
5.12 	Enumerated original documents:
5.13 	(a) (1) in estates, the jurisdictional petition and proof of publication of the notice 
5.14 	of hearing thereof; will and certificate of probate; letters; inventory and appraisal; orders 
5.15 	directing and confirming sale, mortgage, lease, or for conveyance of real estate; order 
5.16 	setting apart statutory selection; receipts for federal estate taxes and state estate taxes; 
5.17 	orders of distribution and general protection; decrees of distribution; federal estate tax 
5.18 	closing letter, consent to discharge by commissioner of revenue and order discharging 
5.19 	representative; and any amendment of the listed documents. When an estate is deemed 
5.20 	closed as provided in clause (d) paragraph (b), the enumerated documents shall include 
5.21 	all claims of creditors.;
5.22 	(b) (2) in guardianships or conservatorships, the jurisdictional petition and order 
5.23 	for hearing thereof with proof of service; letters; orders directing and confirming sale, 
5.24 	mortgage, lease or for conveyance of real estate; order for restoration to capacity and order 
5.25 	discharging guardian; and any amendment of the listed documents.; and
5.26 	(c) (3) in mental, inebriety, and indigent matters, the jurisdictional petition; report of 
5.27 	examination; warrant of commitment; notice of discharge from institution, or notice of 
5.28 	death and order for restoration to capacity; and any amendment of the listed documents.
5.29 	(d) (b) Except for the enumerated documents described in this subdivision, the 
5.30 	court administrator may destroy all other original documents in any probate proceeding 
5.31 	without retaining any reproduction of the document. For the purpose of this subdivision, 
5.32 	a proceeding is deemed closed if no document has been filed in the proceeding for a 
5.33 	period of 15 years, except in the cases of wills filed for safekeeping and those containing 
5.34 	wills of decedents not adjudicated upon.

6.1 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 525.091, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
6.2 		Subd. 3.Effect of copies. A photographic, photostatic, microphotographic, 
6.3 	microfilmed, digitally imaged, electronic, or similarly reproduced record is of the same 
6.4 	force and effect as the original and may be used as the original document or book of 
6.5 	record in all proceedings.

6.6 	ARTICLE 2
6.7 	MINNESOTA COMMON INTEREST OWNERSHIP ACT

6.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.1-102, is amended to read:
6.9 	515B.1-102 APPLICABILITY.
6.10 	(a) Except as provided in this section, this chapter, and not chapters 515 and 515A, 
6.11 	applies to all common interest communities created within this state on and after June 
6.12 	1, 1994.
6.13 	(b) The applicability of this chapter to common interest communities created prior to 
6.14 	June 1, 1994, shall be as follows:
6.15 	(1) This chapter shall apply to condominiums created under chapter 515A with 
6.16 	respect to events and circumstances occurring on and after June 1, 1994; provided (i) that 
6.17 	this chapter shall not invalidate the declarations, bylaws or condominium plats of those 
6.18 	condominiums, and (ii) that chapter 515A, and not this chapter, shall govern all rights and 
6.19 	obligations of a declarant of a condominium created under chapter 515A, and the rights 
6.20 	and claims of unit owners against that declarant.
6.21 	(2) The following sections in this chapter apply to condominiums created under 
6.22 	chapter 515: 515B.1-104 (Variation by Agreement); 515B.1-105 (Separate Titles and 
6.23 	Taxation); 515B.1-106 (Applicability of Local Requirements); 515B.1-107 (Eminent 
6.24 	Domain); 515B.1-108 (This Chapter Prevails; Supplemental Law); 515B.1-109
6.25 	(Construction Against Implicit Repeal); 515B.1-110 (Vacation of Abutting Publicly 
6.26 	Dedicated Property); 515B.1-112 (Unconscionable Agreement or Term of Contract); 
6.27 	515B.1-113 (Obligation of Good Faith); 515B.1-114 (Remedies to be Liberally 
6.28 	Administered); 515B.1-115 (Notice); 515B.1-116 (Recording); 515B.2-103 (Construction 
6.29 	and Validity of Declaration and Bylaws); 515B.2-104 (Description of Units); 
6.30 	515B.2-108(d) (Allocation of Interests); 515B.2-109(c) (Common Elements and Limited 
6.31 	Common Elements); 515B.2-112 (Subdivision, Combination, or Conversion of Units); 
6.32 	515B.2-113 (Alteration of Units); 515B.2-114 (Relocation of Boundaries Between 
6.33 	Adjoining Units); 515B.2-115 (Minor Variations in Boundaries); 515B.2-118 (Amendment 
6.34 	of Declaration); 515B.2-119 (Termination of Common Interest Community); 515B.3-102
7.1 	(Powers of Unit Owners' Association); 515B.3-103(a), (b), and (g) (Board of Directors, 
7.2 	Officers, and Declarant Control); 515B.3-107 (Upkeep of Common Interest Community); 
7.3 	515B.3-108 (Meetings); 515B.3-109 (Quorums); 515B.3-110 (Voting; Proxies); 
7.4 	515B.3-111 (Tort and Contract Liability); 515B.3-112 (Conveyance of, or Creation 
7.5 	of Security Interests in, Common Elements); 515B.3-113 (Insurance); 515B.3-114
7.6 	(Replacement Reserves); 515B.3-115 (c), (e), (f), (g), (h), and (i) (Assessments for 
7.7 	Common Expenses); 515B.3-116 (Lien for Assessments); 515B.3-117 (Other Liens); 
7.8 	515B.3-118 (Association Records); 515B.3-119 (Association as Trustee); 515B.3-121
7.9 	(Accounting Controls); 515B.4-107 (Resale of Units); 515B.4-108 (Purchaser's Right to 
7.10 	Cancel Resale); and 515B.4-116 (Rights of Action; Attorney's Fees). Section 515B.1-103
7.11 	(Definitions) shall apply to the extent necessary in construing any of the sections 
7.12 	referenced in this section. Sections 515B.1-105, 515B.1-106, 515B.1-107, 515B.1-116, 
7.13 	515B.2-103, 515B.2-104, 515B.2-118, 515B.3-102, 515B.3-110, 515B.3-111, 515B.3-113, 
7.14 	515B.3-116, 515B.3-117, 515B.3-118, 515B.3-121, 515B.4-107, 515B.4-108, and 
7.15 	515B.4-116 apply only with respect to events and circumstances occurring on and after 
7.16 	June 1, 1994. All other sections referenced in this section apply only with respect to events 
7.17 	and circumstances occurring after July 31, 1999. A section referenced in this section 
7.18 	does not invalidate the declarations, bylaws or condominium plats of condominiums 
7.19 	created before August 1, 1999. But all sections referenced in this section prevail over the 
7.20 	declarations, bylaws, CIC plats, rules and regulations under them, of condominiums 
7.21 	created before August 1, 1999, except to the extent that this chapter defers to the 
7.22 	declarations, bylaws, CIC plats, or rules and regulations issued under them.
7.23 	(3) This chapter shall not apply to cooperatives and planned communities created 
7.24 	prior to June 1, 1994, or to planned communities that were created on or after June 1, 
7.25 	1994, and before August 1, 2006, and that consist of more than two but fewer than 13 
7.26 	units; except by election pursuant to subsection (d), and except that sections 515B.1-116, 
7.27 	subsections (a), (c), (d), and (e), 515B.4-107, and 515B.4-108, apply to all planned 
7.28 	communities and cooperatives regardless of when they are created, unless they are exempt 
7.29 	under subsection (e).
7.30 	(c) This chapter shall not invalidate any amendment to the declaration, bylaws 
7.31 	or condominium plat of any condominium created under chapter 515 or 515A if the 
7.32 	amendment was recorded before June 1, 1994. Any amendment recorded on or after June 
7.33 	1, 1994, shall be adopted in conformity with the procedures and requirements specified by 
7.34 	those instruments and by this chapter. If the amendment grants to any person any rights, 
7.35 	powers or privileges permitted by this chapter, all correlative obligations, liabilities and 
7.36 	restrictions contained in this chapter shall also apply to that person.
8.1 	(d) Any condominium created under chapter 515, any planned community or 
8.2 	cooperative which would be exempt from this chapter under subsection (e), or any planned 
8.3 	community or cooperative created prior to June 1, 1994, or any planned community that 
8.4 	was created on or after June 1, 1994, and prior to August 1, 2006, and that consists of 
8.5 	more than two but fewer than 13 units, may elect to be subject to this chapter, as follows:
8.6 	(1) The election shall be accomplished by recording a declaration or amended 
8.7 	declaration, and a new or amended CIC plat where required, and by approving bylaws or 
8.8 	amended bylaws, which conform to the requirements of this chapter, and which, in the 
8.9 	case of amendments, are adopted in conformity with the procedures and requirements 
8.10 	specified by the existing declaration and bylaws of the common interest community, 
8.11 	and by any applicable statutes.
8.12 	(2) In a condominium, the preexisting condominium plat shall be the CIC plat and 
8.13 	an amended CIC plat shall be required only if the amended declaration or bylaws contain 
8.14 	provisions inconsistent with the preexisting condominium plat. The condominium's CIC 
8.15 	number shall be the apartment ownership number or condominium number originally 
8.16 	assigned to it by the recording officer. In a cooperative in which the unit owners' interests 
8.17 	are characterized as real estate, a CIC plat shall be required. In a planned community, 
8.18 	the preexisting plat or registered land survey recorded pursuant to chapter 505, 508, or 
8.19 	508A, or the part of the plat or registered land survey upon which the common interest 
8.20 	community is located, shall be the CIC plat.
8.21 	(3) The amendment shall comply with section 515B.2-118(a)(3) and (c); except that 
8.22 	the unanimous consent of the unit owners shall not be required for (i) a clarification of the 
8.23 	unit boundary description if the clarified boundary description is substantially consistent 
8.24 	with the preexisting CIC plat, or (ii) changes from common elements to limited common 
8.25 	elements that occur by operation of section 515B.2-109(c) and (d).
8.26 	(4) Except as permitted by paragraph (3), no declarant, affiliate of declarant, 
8.27 	association, master association nor unit owner may acquire, increase, waive, reduce or 
8.28 	revoke any previously existing warranty rights or causes of action that one of said persons 
8.29 	has against any other of said persons by reason of exercising the right of election under 
8.30 	this subsection.
8.31 	(5) A common interest community which elects to be subject to this chapter may, as 
8.32 	a part of the election process, change its form of ownership by complying with section 
8.33 	515B.2-123.
8.34 	(e) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, this chapter shall not apply, 
8.35 	except by election pursuant to subsection (d), to the following:
9.1 	(1) a planned community which consists of two units, which utilizes a CIC plat 
9.2 	complying with section 515B.2-110(d)(1) and (2), which is not subject to any rights to 
9.3 	subdivide or convert units or to add additional real estate, and which is not subject to a 
9.4 	master association;
9.5 	(2) a common interest community that consists solely of platted lots or other 
9.6 	separate parcels of real estate designed or utilized for detached single family dwellings or 
9.7 	agricultural purposes, with or without common property, where no association or master 
9.8 	association has an obligation to maintain any building containing a dwelling or any 
9.9 	agricultural building located or to be located on such platted lots or parcels; except that 
9.10 	section 515B.4-101(e) shall apply to the sale of such platted lots or parcels of real estate if 
9.11 	the common interest community is or will be subject to a master declaration;
9.12 	(3) a cooperative where, at the time of creation of the cooperative, the unit owners' 
9.13 	interests in the dwellings as described in the declaration consist solely of proprietary 
9.14 	leases having an unexpired term of fewer than 20 years, including renewal options;
9.15 	(4) planned communities utilizing a CIC plat complying with section 
9.16 	515B.2-110(d)(1) and (2) and cooperatives, which are limited by the declaration to 
9.17 	nonresidential uses alone or in combination with residential rental uses in which individual 
9.18 	dwellings do not constitute units or other separate parcels of real estate; or
9.19 	(5) real estate subject only to an instrument or instruments filed primarily for the 
9.20 	purpose of creating or modifying rights with respect to access, utilities, parking, ditches, 
9.21 	drainage, or irrigation.
9.22 	(f) Section 515B.4-101(e) applies to any platted lot or other parcel of real estate that 
9.23 	is subject to a master declaration and is not subject to or is exempt from this chapter.
9.24 	(g) Section 515B.1-106 shall apply to all common interest communities.
9.25 	(h) The amendments in Laws 2010, chapter 267, to the following Sections apply 
9.26 	only to common interest communities created on or after August 1, 2010: section 
9.27 	515B.1-103(33) and sections515B.1-103(33a), 515B.2-110, 515B.3-105, 515B.3-115, 
9.28 	515B.3-116, 515B.4-102, and 515B.4-115. apply only to common interest communities 
9.29 	created before August 1, 2010. Sections 515B.1-103(33b), 515B.2-1101, 515B.3-1051, 
9.30 	515B.3-1151, 515B.4-1021, and 515B.4-1151 apply only to common interest communities 
9.31 	created on or after August 1, 2010.
9.32 	(i) Section 515B.3-114, as amended by Laws 2010, chapter 267, applies to common 
9.33 	interest communities only for the association's fiscal years commencing on or after before
9.34 	January 1, 2012. Section 515B.3-1141 applies to common interest communities only for 
9.35 	the association's fiscal years commencing on or after January 1, 2012.
10.1 	(j) Section 515B.3-104, as amended by Laws 2010, chapter 267, is effective August 
10.2 	1, 2010, and applies to transfers of special declarant rights that are effective on or after that 
10.3 	date applies only to transfers of special declarant rights that are effective before August 
10.4 	1, 2010. Section 515B.3-1041, subsections (a) through (i), apply only to transfers of 
10.5 	special declarant rights that are effective on or after August 1, 2010. Section 515B.3-1041, 
10.6 	subsections (j) and (k), apply only to special declarant rights reserved in a declaration that 
10.7 	is first recorded on or after August 1, 2010.

10.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

10.9 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.1-103, is amended to read:
10.10 	515B.1-103 DEFINITIONS.
10.11 	In the declaration and bylaws, unless specifically provided otherwise or the context 
10.12 	otherwise requires, and in this chapter:
10.13 	(1) "Additional real estate" means real estate that may be added to a flexible 
10.14 	common interest community.
10.15 	(2) "Affiliate of a declarant" means any person who controls, is controlled by, or is 
10.16 	under common control with a declarant.
10.17 	(A) A person "controls" a declarant if the person (i) is a general partner, officer, 
10.18 	director, or employer of the declarant, (ii) directly or indirectly or acting in concert with 
10.19 	one or more other persons, or through one or more subsidiaries, owns, controls, holds with 
10.20 	power to vote, or holds proxies representing, more than 20 percent of the voting interest in 
10.21 	the declarant, (iii) controls in any manner the election of a majority of the directors of the 
10.22 	declarant, or (iv) has contributed more than 20 percent of the capital of the declarant.
10.23 	(B) A person "is controlled by" a declarant if the declarant (i) is a general partner, 
10.24 	officer, director, or employer of the person, (ii) directly or indirectly or acting in concert 
10.25 	with one or more other persons, or through one or more subsidiaries, owns, controls, holds 
10.26 	with power to vote, or holds proxies representing, more than 20 percent of the voting 
10.27 	interest in the person, (iii) controls in any manner the election of a majority of the directors 
10.28 	of the person, or (iv) has contributed more than 20 percent of the capital of the person.
10.29 	(C) Control does not exist if the powers described in this subsection are held solely 
10.30 	as a security interest and have not been exercised.
10.31 	(3) "Allocated interests" means the following interests allocated to each unit: (i) in 
10.32 	a condominium, the undivided interest in the common elements, the common expense 
10.33 	liability, and votes in the association; (ii) in a cooperative, the common expense liability 
11.1 	and the ownership interest and votes in the association; and (iii) in a planned community, 
11.2 	the common expense liability and votes in the association.
11.3 	(4) "Association" means the unit owners' association organized under section 
11.4 	515B.3-101.
11.5 	(5) "Board" means the body, regardless of name, designated in the articles of 
11.6 	incorporation, bylaws or declaration to act on behalf of the association, or on behalf of 
11.7 	a master association when so identified.
11.8 	(6) "CIC plat" means a common interest community plat described in section 
11.9 	515B.2-110.
11.10 	(7) "Common elements" means all portions of the common interest community 
11.11 	other than the units.
11.12 	(8) "Common expenses" means expenditures made or liabilities incurred by or on 
11.13 	behalf of the association, or master association when so identified, together with any 
11.14 	allocations to reserves.
11.15 	(9) "Common expense liability" means the liability for common expenses allocated 
11.16 	to each unit pursuant to section 515B.2-108.
11.17 	(10) "Common interest community" or "CIC" means contiguous or noncontiguous 
11.18 	real estate within Minnesota that is subject to an instrument which obligates persons 
11.19 	owning a separately described parcel of the real estate, or occupying a part of the real 
11.20 	estate pursuant to a proprietary lease, by reason of their ownership or occupancy, to pay 
11.21 	for (i) real estate taxes levied against; (ii) insurance premiums payable with respect to; (iii) 
11.22 	maintenance of; or (iv) construction, maintenance, repair or replacement of improvements 
11.23 	located on, one or more parcels or parts of the real estate other than the parcel or part that 
11.24 	the person owns or occupies. Real estate which satisfies the definition of a common 
11.25 	interest community is a common interest community whether or not it is subject to 
11.26 	this chapter. Real estate subject to a master declaration, regardless of when the master 
11.27 	declaration was recorded, shall not collectively constitute a separate common interest 
11.28 	community unless so stated in the master declaration.
11.29 	(11) "Condominium" means a common interest community in which (i) portions of 
11.30 	the real estate are designated as units, (ii) the remainder of the real estate is designated for 
11.31 	common ownership solely by the owners of the units, and (iii) undivided interests in the 
11.32 	common elements are vested in the unit owners.
11.33 	(12) "Conversion property" means real estate on which is located a building that 
11.34 	at any time within two years before creation of the common interest community was 
11.35 	occupied for residential use wholly or partially by persons other than purchasers and 
11.36 	persons who occupy with the consent of purchasers.
12.1 	(13) "Cooperative" means a common interest community in which the real estate 
12.2 	is owned by an association, each of whose members is entitled to a proprietary lease by 
12.3 	virtue of the member's ownership interest in the association.
12.4 	(14) "Dealer" means a person in the business of selling units for the person's own 
12.5 	account.
12.6 	(15) "Declarant" means:
12.7 	(i) if the common interest community has been created, (A) any person who has 
12.8 	executed a declaration, or a supplemental declaration or amendment to a declaration 
12.9 	adding additional real estate, except secured parties, a spouse holding only an inchoate 
12.10 	interest, persons whose interests in the real estate will not be transferred to unit owners, 
12.11 	or, in the case of a leasehold common interest community, a lessor who possesses no 
12.12 	special declarant rights and who is not an affiliate of a declarant who possesses special 
12.13 	declarant rights, or (B) any person who reserves, or succeeds under section 515B.3-104 to 
12.14 	any special declarant rights; or
12.15 	(ii) any person or persons acting in concert who have offered prior to creation of 
12.16 	the common interest community to transfer their interest in a unit to be created and not 
12.17 	previously transferred.
12.18 	(16) "Declaration" means any instrument, however denominated, that creates a 
12.19 	common interest community.
12.20 	(17) "Dispose" or "disposition" means a voluntary transfer to a purchaser of any 
12.21 	legal or equitable interest in the common interest community, but the term does not include 
12.22 	the transfer or release of a security interest.
12.23 	(18) "Flexible common interest community" means a common interest community 
12.24 	to which additional real estate may be added.
12.25 	(19) "Leasehold common interest community" means a common interest community 
12.26 	in which all or a portion of the real estate is subject to a lease the expiration or termination 
12.27 	of which will terminate the common interest community or reduce its size.
12.28 	(20) "Limited common element" means a portion of the common elements allocated 
12.29 	by the declaration or by operation of section 515B.2-109(c)or (d) for the exclusive use of 
12.30 	one or more but fewer than all of the units.
12.31 	(21) "Master association" means an entity created on or after June 1, 1994, that 
12.32 	directly or indirectly exercises any of the powers set forth in section 515B.3-102 on behalf 
12.33 	of one or more members described in section 515B.2-121(b), (i), (ii) or (iii), whether or 
12.34 	not it also exercises those powers on behalf of one or more property owners' associations 
12.35 	described in section 515B.2-121(b)(iv). A person (i) hired by an association to perform 
12.36 	maintenance, repair, accounting, bookkeeping or management services, or (ii) granted 
13.1 	authority under an instrument recorded primarily for the purpose of creating rights or 
13.2 	obligations with respect to utilities, access, drainage, or recreational amenities, is not, 
13.3 	solely by reason of that relationship, a master association.
13.4 	(22) "Master declaration" means a written instrument, however named, (i) recorded 
13.5 	on or after June 1, 1994, and (ii) complying with section 515B.2-121, subsection (e).
13.6 	(23) "Master developer" means a person who is designated in the master declaration 
13.7 	as a master developer or, in the absence of such a designation, the owner or owners of 
13.8 	the real estate subject to the master declaration at the time the master declaration is 
13.9 	recorded, except (i) secured parties and (ii) a spouse holding only an inchoate interest. 
13.10 	A master developer is not a declarant unless the master declaration states that the real 
13.11 	estate subject to the master declaration collectively is or collectively will be a separate 
13.12 	common interest community.
13.13 	(24) "Period of declarant control" means the time period provided for in section 
13.14 	515B.3-103(c) during which the declarant may appoint and remove officers and directors 
13.15 	of the association.
13.16 	(25) "Person" means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, 
13.17 	partnership, trustee under a trust, personal representative, guardian, conservator, 
13.18 	government, governmental subdivision or agency, or other legal or commercial entity 
13.19 	capable of holding title to real estate.
13.20 	(26) "Planned community" means a common interest community that is not a 
13.21 	condominium or a cooperative. A condominium or cooperative may be a part of a planned 
13.22 	community.
13.23 	(27) "Proprietary lease" means an agreement with a cooperative association whereby 
13.24 	a member of the association is entitled to exclusive possession of a unit in the cooperative.
13.25 	(28) "Purchaser" means a person, other than a declarant, who by means of a 
13.26 	voluntary transfer acquires a legal or equitable interest in a unit other than (i) a leasehold 
13.27 	interest of less than 20 years, including renewal options, or (ii) a security interest.
13.28 	(29) "Real estate" means any fee simple, leasehold or other estate or interest in, over, 
13.29 	or under land, including structures, fixtures, and other improvements and interests that by 
13.30 	custom, usage, or law pass with a conveyance of land though not described in the contract 
13.31 	of sale or instrument of conveyance. "Real estate" may include spaces with or without 
13.32 	upper or lower boundaries, or spaces without physical boundaries.
13.33 	(30) "Residential use" means use as a dwelling, whether primary, secondary or 
13.34 	seasonal, but not transient use such as hotels or motels.
13.35 	(31) "Secured party" means the person owning a security interest as defined in 
13.36 	paragraph (32).
14.1 	(32) "Security interest" means a perfected interest in real estate or personal 
14.2 	property, created by contract or conveyance, which secures payment or performance of an 
14.3 	obligation. The term includes a mortgagee's interest in a mortgage, a vendor's interest in 
14.4 	a contract for deed, a lessor's interest in a lease intended as security, a holder's interest 
14.5 	in a sheriff's certificate of sale during the period of redemption, an assignee's interest in 
14.6 	an assignment of leases or rents intended as security, in a cooperative, a lender's interest 
14.7 	in a member's ownership interest in the association, a pledgee's interest in the pledge of 
14.8 	an ownership interest, or any other interest intended as security for an obligation under a 
14.9 	written agreement.
14.10 	(33a) This definition of special declarant rights applies only to common interest 
14.11 	communities created before August 1, 2010. "Special declarant rights" means rights 
14.12 	reserved in the declaration for the benefit of a declarant to:
14.13 	(i) complete improvements indicated on the CIC plat, planned by the declarant 
14.14 	consistent with the disclosure statement or authorized by the municipality in which the 
14.15 	CIC is located;
14.16 	(ii) add additional real estate to a common interest community;
14.17 	(iii) subdivide or combine units, or convert units into common elements, limited 
14.18 	common elements, or units;
14.19 	(iv) maintain sales offices, management offices, signs advertising the common 
14.20 	interest community, and models;
14.21 	(v) use easements through the common elements for the purpose of making 
14.22 	improvements within the common interest community or any additional real estate;
14.23 	(vi) create a master association and provide for the exercise of authority by the 
14.24 	master association over the common interest community or its unit owners;
14.25 	(vii) merge or consolidate a common interest community with another common 
14.26 	interest community of the same form of ownership; or
14.27 	(viii) appoint or remove any officer or director of the association, or the master 
14.28 	association where applicable, during any period of declarant control.
14.29 	(33)(33b) This definition of special declarant rights applies only to common interest 
14.30 	communities created on or after August 1, 2010. "Special declarant rights" means rights 
14.31 	reserved in the declaration for the benefit of a declarant and expressly identified in the 
14.32 	declaration as special declarant rights. Such special declarant rights may include but 
14.33 	are not limited to the following:
14.34 	(i) to complete improvements indicated on the CIC plat, planned by the declarant 
14.35 	consistent with the disclosure statement or authorized by the municipality in which the 
15.1 	common interest community is located, and to have and use easements for itself and its 
15.2 	employees, agents, and contractors through the common elements for such purposes;
15.3 	(ii) to add additional real estate to a common interest community;
15.4 	(iii) to subdivide or combine units, or convert units into common elements, limited 
15.5 	common elements and/or units, pursuant to section 515B.2-112;
15.6 	(iv) to maintain and use sales offices, management offices, signs advertising the 
15.7 	common interest community, and models, and to have and use easements for itself and its 
15.8 	employees, agents, and invitees through the common elements for such purposes;
15.9 	(v) to appoint or remove any officer or director of the association during any period 
15.10 	of declarant control;
15.11 	(vi) to utilize an alternate common expense plan as provided in section 
15.12 	515B.3-115(a)(2);
15.13 	(vii) to grant common element licenses as provided in section 515B.2-109(e); or
15.14 	(viii) to review, and approve or disapprove, the exterior design, materials, size, 
15.15 	site location, and other exterior features of buildings and other structures, landscaping 
15.16 	and other exterior improvements, located within the common interest community, and 
15.17 	any modifications or alterations thereto.
15.18 	Special declarant rights shall not be reserved or utilized for the purpose of evading 
15.19 	any limitation or obligation imposed on declarants by this chapter.
15.20 	(34) "Time share" means a right to occupy a unit or any of several units during three 
15.21 	or more separate time periods over a period of at least three years, including renewal 
15.22 	options, whether or not coupled with a fee title interest in the common interest community 
15.23 	or a specified portion thereof.
15.24 	(35) "Unit" means a portion of a common interest community the boundaries 
15.25 	of which are described in the common interest community's declaration and which is 
15.26 	intended for separate ownership, or separate occupancy pursuant to a proprietary lease.
15.27 	(36) "Unit identifier" means English letters or Arabic numerals, or a combination 
15.28 	thereof, which identify only one unit in a common interest community and which meet 
15.29 	the requirements of section 515B.2-104.
15.30 	(37) "Unit owner" means a declarant or other person who owns a unit, a lessee under 
15.31 	a proprietary lease, or a lessee of a unit in a leasehold common interest community whose 
15.32 	lease expires simultaneously with any lease the expiration or termination of which will 
15.33 	remove the unit from the common interest community, but does not include a secured 
15.34 	party. In a common interest community, the declarant is the unit owner of a unit until that 
15.35 	unit has been conveyed to another person.

15.36 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

16.1 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.1-116, is amended to read:
16.2 	515B.1-116 RECORDING.
16.3 	(a) A declaration, bylaws, a supplemental declaration, any amendment to a 
16.4 	declaration, supplemental declaration, or bylaws, and any other instrument affecting 
16.5 	a common interest community shall be entitled to be recorded. In those counties which 
16.6 	have a tract index, the county recorder shall enter the declaration in the tract index for 
16.7 	each unit or other tract affected. The county recorder shall not enter the declaration in 
16.8 	the tract index for lands described as additional real estate, unless such lands are added 
16.9 	to the common interest community pursuant to section 515B.2-111. The registrar of 
16.10 	titles shall file the declaration in accordance with section 508.351 or 508A.351. The 
16.11 	registrar of titles shall not file the declaration upon certificates of title for lands described 
16.12 	as additional real estate, unless such lands are added to the common interest community 
16.13 	pursuant to section 515B.2-111.
16.14 	(b) The recording officer shall upon request promptly assign a number (CIC number) 
16.15 	to a common interest community to be formed or to a common interest community 
16.16 	resulting from the merger of two or more common interest communities.
16.17 	(c) Documents recorded pursuant to this chapter shall in the case of registered 
16.18 	land be filed, and references to the recording of documents shall mean filed in the case 
16.19 	of registered land.
16.20 	(d) Except as provided in section 515B.2-109, 515B.2-112, 515B.2-114, or 
16.21 	515B.2-124, if a recorded document relating to a common interest community or a master 
16.22 	association purports to require a certain vote or signatures approving any restatement 
16.23 	or amendment of the document by a certain number or percentage of unit owners or 
16.24 	secured parties, and if the amendment or restatement is to be recorded, an affidavit of the 
16.25 	president or secretary of the association stating that the required vote or signatures have 
16.26 	been obtained shall be attached to the document to be recorded and shall constitute prima 
16.27 	facie evidence of the representations contained therein.
16.28 	(e) Except as permitted under this subsection, a recording officer shall not file or 
16.29 	record a declaration creating a new common interest community, unless the county 
16.30 	treasurer has certified that the property taxes payable in the current year for the real estate 
16.31 	included in the proposed common interest community have been paid. This certification 
16.32 	is in addition to the certification for delinquent taxes required by section 272.12. In the 
16.33 	case of preexisting common interest communities, the recording officer shall accept, file, 
16.34 	and record the following instruments, without requiring a certification as to the current or 
16.35 	delinquent taxes on any of the units in the common interest community: (i) a declaration 
16.36 	or amended declaration subjecting the common interest community to this chapter; (ii) 
17.1 	a declaration changing the form of a common interest community pursuant to section 
17.2 	515B.2-123; or (iii) an amendment to or restatement of the declaration, bylaws, or CIC 
17.3 	plat; provided, that if the declaration, amendment, or restatement changes the boundaries 
17.4 	of an existing tax parcel, then the recording officer shall require a certification as to the 
17.5 	payment of current and delinquent taxes on any tax parcel the boundaries of which are 
17.6 	changed. In order for an instrument to be accepted and recorded under the preceding 
17.7 	sentence, the instrument must not create or change unit or common area boundaries.

17.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2011.

17.9 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.2-109, is amended to read:
17.10 	515B.2-109 COMMON ELEMENTS AND LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS.
17.11 	(a) Except as limited by the declaration or this chapter, common elements other than 
17.12 	limited common elements may be used in common by all unit owners. Limited common 
17.13 	elements are designated for the exclusive use of the unit owners of the unit or units to 
17.14 	which the limited common elements are allocated, subject to subsection (b) and the rights 
17.15 	of the association as set forth in the declaration, the bylaws or this chapter.
17.16 	(b) Except for the limited common elements described in subsections (c) and (d), the 
17.17 	declaration shall specify to which unit or units each limited common element is allocated.
17.18 	(c) Unless otherwise provided in the declaration, if any chute, flue, duct, wire, pipe, 
17.19 	conduit, bearing wall, bearing column, or other fixture or improvement: (i) serves one or 
17.20 	more but fewer than all units and is located wholly or partially outside the unit boundaries, 
17.21 	it is a limited common element allocated solely to the unit or units served; (ii) serves all 
17.22 	units or any portion of the common elements, it is a part of the common elements; or (iii) 
17.23 	serves only the unit and is located wholly within the unit boundaries, it is a part of the unit.
17.24 	(d) Unless otherwise provided in the declaration, improvements such as shutters, 
17.25 	awnings, window boxes, doorsteps, stoops, porches, balconies, decks, patios, perimeter 
17.26 	doors and windows, and their frames, constructed as part of the original construction to 
17.27 	serve a single unit or units, and authorized replacements and modifications thereof, if 
17.28 	located wholly or partially outside the unit boundaries, are limited common elements 
17.29 	allocated solely to the unit or units served.
17.30 	(e) If the declaration so provides, and subject to any different licensing provisions in 
17.31 	a declaration recorded before August 1, 2010, the declarant may grant to a unit owner an 
17.32 	exclusive license for the use of a common element originally designed and constructed to 
17.33 	serve as a garage stall, storage locker, or other similar common element space, in which 
17.34 	case the common element license shall be deemed to be appurtenant to the unit owner's 
18.1 	unit, subject to transfer if so provided by the declaration. The declarant shall, at the time 
18.2 	the license is granted, provide to the association unit owner a common element license 
18.3 	evidenced by a separate instrument signed by the declarant, that and provide a copy of the 
18.4 	instrument to the association. The instrument shall, at a minimum, identifies identify the 
18.5 	licensed common element, the unit identifier of the unit to which it is appurtenant, and 
18.6 	a reference to the section of the declaration governing common element licenses. If the 
18.7 	declaration so provides, the declarant may require the onetime payment to the declarant of 
18.8 	a consideration for the grant of a license.
18.9 	(1) A common element license may be held only by a unit owner, and the purported 
18.10 	transfer of a license to a person other than a unit owner shall be void. Except as provided 
18.11 	in the declaration or this subsection, no interest in the common element license may be 
18.12 	held or transferred separate from the unit, and the purported transfer of any interest in the 
18.13 	license other than to another unit owner shall be void.
18.14 	(2) The right of any declarant to grant a common element license shall terminate at 
18.15 	the earlier of (i) the conveyance of all units to persons other than a declarant or (ii) ten 
18.16 	years after the recording of the declaration.
18.17 	(3) The document granting the common element license shall not be recorded. The 
18.18 	association shall maintain records of all common element licenses including originals 
18.19 	or copies of the common element licenses and transfers of common element licenses 
18.20 	authorized by the declaration.
18.21 	(4) A common element license granted pursuant to this subsection shall not be 
18.22 	subject to the approval requirements set forth in section 515B.3-102(a)(9).
18.23 	(f) An allocation of limited common elements may be changed by an amendment 
18.24 	to the declaration executed by the unit owners between or among whose units the 
18.25 	reallocation is made and the association. The amendment shall be approved by the board 
18.26 	of directors of the association as to form, and compliance with the declaration and this 
18.27 	chapter. The association shall establish fair and reasonable procedures and time frames for 
18.28 	the submission and processing of the reallocations, and shall maintain records thereof. 
18.29 	If approved, the association shall cause the amendment to be recorded promptly. The 
18.30 	amendment shall be effective when recorded. The association may require the unit owners 
18.31 	requesting the reallocation to pay all fees and costs for reviewing, preparing and recording 
18.32 	the amendment and any amended CIC plat.

18.33 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2011.

19.1 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.2-110, is amended to read:
19.2 	515B.2-110 COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY PLAT (CIC PLAT).
19.3 	(a) A CIC plat is required for condominiums and planned communities, and 
19.4 	cooperatives in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate. The CIC 
19.5 	plat is a part of the declaration in condominiums, in planned communities utilizing a CIC 
19.6 	plat complying with subsection (c), and in cooperatives in which the unit owners' interests 
19.7 	are characterized as real estate, but need not be physically attached to the declaration.
19.8 	(1) In a condominium, a planned community not utilizing a subdivision plat or 
19.9 	registered land survey under subsection (d)(1), or a cooperative in which the unit owners' 
19.10 	interests are characterized as real estate, the CIC plat shall comply with subsection (c).
19.11 	(2) In a planned community, a CIC plat which does not comply with subsection (c) 
19.12 	shall consist of all or part of a subdivision plat or registered land survey complying with 
19.13 	subsection (d), or any combination thereof. The subdivision plat or registered land survey 
19.14 	need not contain the number of the common interest community and may be recorded at 
19.15 	any time before the recording of the declaration; provided, that if the CIC plat complies 
19.16 	with subsection (c), the number of the common interest community shall be included and 
19.17 	the CIC plat shall be recorded at the time of recording of the declaration.
19.18 	(3) In a cooperative in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as personal 
19.19 	property, a CIC plat shall not be required. In lieu of a CIC plat, the declaration, or any 
19.20 	amendment or supplemental declaration creating, converting, or subdividing units, shall 
19.21 	include an exhibit containing a dimensioned, scale drawing showing (i) the boundaries 
19.22 	of the land constituting the cooperative property, (ii) the location and dimensions of the 
19.23 	front, rear, and side boundaries of each unit, and (iii) the unit's unit identifier and location 
19.24 	within the cooperative property.
19.25 	(b) The CIC plat, or supplemental or amended CIC plat, for condominiums, for 
19.26 	planned communities using a plat complying with subsection (c), and for cooperatives in 
19.27 	which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate, shall contain certifications 
19.28 	by a licensed professional land surveyor and licensed professional architect, as to the parts 
19.29 	of the CIC plat prepared by each, that (i) the CIC plat accurately depicts all information 
19.30 	required by this section, and (ii) the work was undertaken by, or reviewed and approved 
19.31 	by, the certifying land surveyor or architect. The portions of the CIC plat depicting the 
19.32 	dimensions of the portions of the common interest community described in subsections 
19.33 	(c)(8), (9), and (10), may be prepared by either a land surveyor or an architect. The other 
19.34 	portions of the CIC plat shall be prepared only by a land surveyor. A certification of the 
19.35 	CIC plat or supplemental CIC plat, or an amendment to it, under this subsection by an 
19.36 	architect is not required if all parts of the CIC plat, supplemental CIC plat, or amendment 
20.1 	are prepared by a land surveyor. Certification by the land surveyor or architect does not 
20.2 	constitute a guaranty or warranty of the nature, suitability, or quality of construction of 
20.3 	any improvements located or to be located in the common interest community.
20.4 	(c) A CIC plat for a condominium, a planned community not utilizing a subdivision 
20.5 	plat or registered land survey under subsection (d)(1), or a cooperative in which the unit 
20.6 	owners' interests are characterized as real estate, shall show:
20.7 	(1) the number of the common interest community, and the boundaries, dimensions 
20.8 	and a legally sufficient description of the land included therein;
20.9 	(2) the dimensions and location of all existing roadways and material structural 
20.10 	improvements that are part of the common elements;
20.11 	(3) the intended location and dimensions of all roadways and material structural 
20.12 	improvements that may be constructed by the declarant within the common elements after 
20.13 	the filing of the CIC plat, labeled either "MUST BE BUILT" or "NEED NOT BE BUILT";
20.14 	(4) the location and dimensions of any additional real estate, labeled as such, and a 
20.15 	legally sufficient description of the additional real estate;
20.16 	(5) the extent of any encroachments by or upon any portion of the common interest 
20.17 	community;
20.18 	(6) the location and dimensions of all recorded easements within the land included 
20.19 	in the common interest community burdening any portion of the land;
20.20 	(7) the distance and direction between noncontiguous parcels of real estate;
20.21 	(8) the location and dimensions of limited common elements, except that with 
20.22 	respect to limited common elements described in section 515B.2-109, subsections (c) 
20.23 	and (d), only such material limited common elements as porches, balconies, decks, and 
20.24 	patios, shall be shown;
20.25 	(9) the location and dimensions of the front, rear, and side boundaries of each unit 
20.26 	and that unit's unit identifier;
20.27 	(10) the location and dimensions of the upper and lower boundaries of each unit 
20.28 	with reference to an established or assumed datum and that unit's unit identifier; and
20.29 	(11) a legally sufficient description of any real estate in which the unit owners will 
20.30 	own only an estate for years, labeled as "leasehold real estate."
20.31 	(d) A CIC plat for a planned community either shall comply with subsection (c), 
20.32 	or it shall:
20.33 	(1) comply with chapter 505, 508, or 508A, as applicable; and
20.34 	(2) comply with the applicable subdivision requirements of any governmental 
20.35 	authority within whose jurisdiction the planned community is located, subject to the 
20.36 	limitations set forth in section 515B.1-106.
21.1 	(e) If a declarant adds additional real estate, the declarant shall record a supplemental 
21.2 	CIC plat or plats for the real estate being added, conforming to the requirements of this 
21.3 	section which apply to the type of common interest community in question. If less than 
21.4 	all additional real estate is being added, the supplemental CIC plat for a condominium, 
21.5 	a planned community whose CIC plat complies with subsection (c), or a cooperative 
21.6 	in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate, shall also show the 
21.7 	location and dimensions of the remaining portion.
21.8 	(f) A CIC plat which complies with subsection (c) is not subject to chapter 505.
21.9 	(a) A CIC plat is required for condominiums and planned communities, and 
21.10 	cooperatives in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate. The CIC 
21.11 	plat is a part of the declaration in condominiums, in planned communities utilizing a CIC 
21.12 	plat complying with subsection (c), and in cooperatives in which the unit owners' interests 
21.13 	are characterized as real estate, but need not be physically attached to the declaration.
21.14 	(1) In a condominium, or a cooperative in which the unit owners' interests are 
21.15 	characterized as real estate, the CIC plat shall comply with subsection (c).
21.16 	(2) In a planned community, a CIC plat that does not comply with subsection (c) 
21.17 	shall consist of all or part of a subdivision plat or registered land survey complying with 
21.18 	subsection (d), or any combination thereof. The CIC plat or registered land survey need 
21.19 	not contain the number of the common interest community and may be recorded at any 
21.20 	time before the recording of the declaration; provided that if the CIC plat complies with 
21.21 	subsection (c), the number of the common interest community shall be included and the 
21.22 	CIC plat shall be recorded at the time of recording of the declaration.
21.23 	(3) In a cooperative in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as personal 
21.24 	property, a CIC plat shall not be required. In lieu of a CIC plat, the declaration or 
21.25 	any amendment to it creating, converting, or subdividing units in a personal property 
21.26 	cooperative shall include an exhibit containing a scale drawing of each building, 
21.27 	identifying each building, and showing the perimeter walls of each unit created or changed 
21.28 	by the declaration or any amendment to it, including the unit's unit identifier, and its 
21.29 	location within the building if the building contains more than one unit.
21.30 	(b) The CIC plat, or supplemental or amended CIC plat, for condominiums, for 
21.31 	planned communities using a plat complying with subsection (c), and for cooperatives in 
21.32 	which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate, shall contain certifications 
21.33 	by a licensed professional land surveyor and licensed professional architect, as to the parts 
21.34 	of the CIC plat prepared by each, that (i) the CIC plat accurately depicts all information 
21.35 	required by this section, and (ii) the work was undertaken by, or reviewed and approved 
21.36 	by, the certifying land surveyor or architect. The portions of the CIC plat depicting the 
22.1 	dimensions of the portions of the common interest community described in subsection 
22.2 	(c), clauses (8), (9), (10), and (12), may be prepared by either a land surveyor or an 
22.3 	architect. The other portions of the CIC plat shall be prepared only by a land surveyor. 
22.4 	A certification of the CIC plat or supplemental CIC plat, or an amendment to it, under 
22.5 	this subsection by an architect is not required if all parts of the CIC plat, supplemental 
22.6 	CIC plat, or amendment are prepared by a land surveyor. Certification by the land 
22.7 	surveyor or architect does not constitute a guaranty or warranty of the nature, suitability, 
22.8 	or quality of construction of any improvements located or to be located in the common 
22.9 	interest community.
22.10 	(c) A CIC plat for a condominium, or a cooperative in which the unit owners' 
22.11 	interests are characterized as real estate, shall show:
22.12 	(1) the number of the common interest community, and the boundaries, dimensions, 
22.13 	and legally sufficient description of the land included therein;
22.14 	(2) the dimensions and location of all existing material structural improvements 
22.15 	and roadways;
22.16 	(3) the intended location and dimensions of any contemplated common element 
22.17 	improvements to be constructed within the common interest community after the filing of 
22.18 	the CIC plat, labeled either "MUST BE BUILT" or "NEED NOT BE BUILT";
22.19 	(4) the location and dimensions of any additional real estate, labeled as such, and a 
22.20 	legally sufficient description of the additional real estate;
22.21 	(5) the extent of any encroachments by or upon any portion of the common interest 
22.22 	community;
22.23 	(6) the location and dimensions of all recorded easements within the land included 
22.24 	in the common interest community burdening any portion of the land;
22.25 	(7) the distance and direction between noncontiguous parcels of real estate;
22.26 	(8) the location and dimensions of limited common elements, except that with 
22.27 	respect to limited common elements described in section 515B.2-102, subsections (d) and 
22.28 	(f), only such material limited common elements as porches, balconies, decks, patios, and 
22.29 	garages shall be shown;
22.30 	(9) the location and dimensions of the front, rear, and side boundaries of each unit 
22.31 	and that unit's unit identifier;
22.32 	(10) the location and dimensions of the upper and lower boundaries of each unit 
22.33 	with reference to an established or assumed datum and that unit's unit identifier;
22.34 	(11) a legally sufficient description of any real estate in which the unit owners will 
22.35 	own only an estate for years, labeled as "leasehold real estate"; and
23.1 	(12) any units which may be converted by the declarant to create additional units or 
23.2 	common elements identified separately.
23.3 	(d) A CIC plat for a planned community either shall comply with subsection (c), 
23.4 	or it shall:
23.5 	(1) comply with chapter 505, 508, or 508A, as applicable; and
23.6 	(2) comply with the applicable subdivision requirements of any governmental 
23.7 	authority within whose jurisdiction the planned community is located, subject to the 
23.8 	limitations set forth in section 515B.1-106.
23.9 	(e) If a declarant adds additional real estate, the declarant shall record a supplemental 
23.10 	CIC plat or plats for the real estate being added, conforming to the requirements of this 
23.11 	section which apply to the type of common interest community in question. If less than 
23.12 	all additional real estate is being added, the supplemental CIC plat for a condominium, 
23.13 	a planned community whose CIC plat complies with subsection (c), or a cooperative in 
23.14 	which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate shall also show the location 
23.15 	and dimensions of the remaining portion.
23.16 	(f) If, pursuant to section 515B.2-112, a declarant subdivides or converts any unit 
23.17 	into two or more units, common elements, or limited common elements, or combines 
23.18 	two or more units, the declarant shall record an amendment to the CIC plat showing 
23.19 	the location and dimensions of any new units, common elements, or limited common 
23.20 	elements thus created.
23.21 	(g) A CIC plat that complies with subsection (c) is not subject to chapter 505.
23.22 	(h) This section applies only to common interest communities created before August 
23.23 	1, 2010.

23.24 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

23.25 	Sec. 6. [515B.2-1101] COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY PLAT (CIC PLAT).
23.26 	(a) A CIC plat is required for condominiums and planned communities, and 
23.27 	cooperatives in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate. The CIC 
23.28 	plat is a part of the declaration in condominiums, in planned communities utilizing a CIC 
23.29 	plat complying with subsection (c), and in cooperatives in which the unit owners' interests 
23.30 	are characterized as real estate, but need not be physically attached to the declaration.
23.31 	(1) In a condominium, a planned community not utilizing a subdivision plat or 
23.32 	registered land survey under subsection (d), clause (1), or a cooperative in which the 
23.33 	unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate, the CIC plat shall comply with 
23.34 	subsection (c).
24.1 	(2) In a planned community, a CIC plat that does not comply with subsection (c) 
24.2 	shall consist of all or part of a subdivision plat or registered land survey complying with 
24.3 	subsection (d), or any combination thereof. The CIC subdivision plat or registered land 
24.4 	survey need not contain the number of the common interest community and may be 
24.5 	recorded at any time before the recording of the declaration; provided that if the CIC plat 
24.6 	complies with subsection (c), the number of the common interest community shall be 
24.7 	included and the CIC plat shall be recorded at the time of recording of the declaration.
24.8 	(3) In a cooperative in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as personal 
24.9 	property, a CIC plat shall not be required. In lieu of a CIC plat, the declaration, or any 
24.10 	amendment or supplemental declaration creating, converting, or subdividing units shall 
24.11 	include an exhibit containing a dimensioned, scale drawing showing (i) the boundaries 
24.12 	of the land constituting the cooperative property, (ii) the location and dimensions of the 
24.13 	front, rear, and side boundaries of each unit, and (iii) the unit's unit identifier and its 
24.14 	location within the cooperative property.
24.15 	(b) The CIC plat or supplemental or amended CIC plat for condominiums, for 
24.16 	planned communities using a plat complying with subsection (c), and for cooperatives in 
24.17 	which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate shall contain certifications 
24.18 	by a licensed professional land surveyor and licensed professional architect, as to the parts 
24.19 	of the CIC plat prepared by each, that (i) the CIC plat accurately depicts all information 
24.20 	required by this section, and (ii) the work was undertaken by, or reviewed and approved 
24.21 	by, the certifying land surveyor or architect. The portions of the CIC plat depicting the 
24.22 	dimensions of the portions of the common interest community described in subsection (c), 
24.23 	clauses (8), (9), and (10), may be prepared by either a land surveyor or an architect. The 
24.24 	other portions of the CIC plat shall be prepared only by a land surveyor. A certification of 
24.25 	the CIC plat or supplemental CIC plat, or an amendment to it, under this subsection by an 
24.26 	architect is not required if all parts of the CIC plat, supplemental CIC plat, or amendment 
24.27 	are prepared by a land surveyor. Certification by the land surveyor or architect does not 
24.28 	constitute a guaranty or warranty of the nature, suitability, or quality of construction of 
24.29 	any improvements located or to be located in the common interest community.
24.30 	(c) A CIC plat for a condominium, a planned community not utilizing a subdivision 
24.31 	plat or registered land survey under subsection (d), clause (1), or a cooperative in which 
24.32 	the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate shall show:
24.33 	(1) the number of the common interest community, and the boundaries, dimensions, 
24.34 	and a legally sufficient description of the land included therein;
24.35 	(2) the dimensions and location of all existing roadways and material structural 
24.36 	improvements that are part of the common elements;
25.1 	(3) the intended location and dimensions of all roadways and material structural 
25.2 	improvements that may be constructed by the declarant within the common elements after 
25.3 	the filing of the CIC plat, labeled either "MUST BE BUILT" or "NEED NOT BE BUILT";
25.4 	(4) the location and dimensions of any additional real estate, labeled as such, and a 
25.5 	legally sufficient description of the additional real estate;
25.6 	(5) the extent of any encroachments by or upon any portion of the common interest 
25.7 	community;
25.8 	(6) the location and dimensions of all recorded easements within the land included 
25.9 	in the common interest community burdening any portion of the land;
25.10 	(7) the distance and direction between noncontiguous parcels of real estate;
25.11 	(8) the location and dimensions of limited common elements, except that with 
25.12 	respect to limited common elements described in section 515B.2-109, subsections (c) 
25.13 	and (d), only such material limited common elements as porches, balconies, decks, and 
25.14 	patios shall be shown;
25.15 	(9) the location and dimensions of the front, rear, and side boundaries of each unit 
25.16 	and that unit's unit identifier;
25.17 	(10) the location and dimensions of the upper and lower boundaries of each unit 
25.18 	with reference to an established or assumed datum and that unit's unit identifier; and
25.19 	(11) a legally sufficient description of any real estate in which the unit owners will 
25.20 	own only an estate for years, labeled as "leasehold real estate."
25.21 	(d) A CIC plat for a planned community either shall comply with subsection (c), 
25.22 	or it shall:
25.23 	(1) comply with chapter 505, 508, or 508A, as applicable; and
25.24 	(2) comply with the applicable subdivision requirements of any governmental 
25.25 	authority within whose jurisdiction the planned community is located, subject to the 
25.26 	limitations set forth in section 515B.1-106.
25.27 	(e) If a declarant adds additional real estate, the declarant shall record a supplemental 
25.28 	CIC plat or plats for the real estate being added, conforming to the requirements of this 
25.29 	section which apply to the type of common interest community in question. If less than all 
25.30 	additional real estate is being added, the supplemental CIC plat complies with subsection 
25.31 	(c), or a cooperative in which the unit owners' interests are characterized as real estate, 
25.32 	shall also show the location and dimensions of the remaining portion.
25.33 	(f) A CIC plat which complies with subsection (c) is not subject to chapter 505.
25.34 	(g) This section applies only to common interest communities created on or after 
25.35 	August 1, 2010.

25.36 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

26.1 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.2-121, is amended to read:
26.2 	515B.2-121 MASTER ASSOCIATIONS.
26.3 	(a) A master association formed after June 1, 1994, shall be organized as a Minnesota 
26.4 	profit, nonprofit or cooperative corporation. A master association shall be incorporated 
26.5 	prior to the delegation to it of any powers under this chapter.
26.6 	(b) The members of the master association shall be any combination of (i) unit 
26.7 	owners, (ii) associations, (iii) master associations, or (iv) owners of real estate or property 
26.8 	owners' associations not subject to this chapter but only in combination with at least one 
26.9 	other category of member. An association or its members may be members of an entity 
26.10 	created before June 1, 1994, which performs functions similar to those performed by a 
26.11 	master association regardless of whether the entity is subject to this chapter.
26.12 	(c) A master association shall be governed by a master board. Except as expressly 
26.13 	prohibited by the master declaration, the master association's articles of incorporation or 
26.14 	bylaws, or other provisions of this chapter, the master board may act in all instances on 
26.15 	behalf of the master association. The directors of a master association shall be elected or, if 
26.16 	a nonprofit corporation, elected or appointed, in a manner consistent with the requirements 
26.17 	of the statute under which the master association is formed and of the master association's 
26.18 	articles of incorporation and bylaws, and subject to the following:
26.19 	(1) The master declaration may provide for a period of master developer control 
26.20 	of the master association during which a master developer or a person designated by 
26.21 	the master developer may appoint and remove the officers and directors of the master 
26.22 	association. The period of master developer control begins on the date of the recording of 
26.23 	the master declaration and terminates upon the earliest of the following events:
26.24 	(i) the voluntary surrender of the right to appoint directors;
26.25 	(ii) the date ten years after the date the master declaration is recorded, unless 
26.26 	extended by an amendment to the master declaration approved in writing by the master 
26.27 	developer, and by 67 percent of the votes of members other than the master developer;
26.28 	(iii) the termination date, if any, in the master declaration; or
26.29 	(iv) the date when at least 75 percent of the total units and other parcels of real estate 
26.30 	referred to in subsection (e)(1)(vii) have been conveyed to persons other than a master 
26.31 	developer, master association, declarant, or association.
26.32 	(2) Upon the termination of the period of master developer control, the master board 
26.33 	shall cause a meeting of the members of the master association to be called and held 
26.34 	within 60 days after said termination, at which time the directors shall be elected by all 
26.35 	members, including the master developer if a member. If the master board fails or refuses 
26.36 	to call a meeting of the unit owners required to be called by this subsection, then the 
27.1 	members other than the master developer and its affiliates, if they are members, may cause 
27.2 	the meeting to be called pursuant to the applicable provisions of the statute under which 
27.3 	the master association was created. If the master developer or its affiliates are members, 
27.4 	they shall be deemed to be present at the meeting for purposes of establishing a quorum 
27.5 	regardless of their failure to attend the meeting. The master board shall thereafter be 
27.6 	subject to the following:
27.7 	(i) unless otherwise approved by a vote of members other than the master developer 
27.8 	or an affiliate of the master developer, a majority of the directors shall be members, or a 
27.9 	natural person designated by a member that is not a natural person, other than the master 
27.10 	developer or an affiliate of the master developer;
27.11 	(ii) subject to the requirements of subsection (c)(2)(i), the articles of incorporation or 
27.12 	bylaws may authorize the master developer or a person designated by the master developer 
27.13 	to appoint one director, who need not be a member. The articles of incorporation or 
27.14 	bylaws shall not be amended to change or terminate the authorization to appoint one 
27.15 	director without the written consent of the master developer or other person possessing 
27.16 	the power to appoint; and
27.17 	(iii) subject to the requirements of subsection (c)(2)(i), the articles of incorporation 
27.18 	or bylaws may authorize special classes of directors and director voting rights, as follows: 
27.19 	(A) classes of directors, (B) the appointment or election of directors in certain classes by 
27.20 	certain classes of members, or (C) class voting by classes of directors on issues affecting 
27.21 	only a certain class or classes of members, units, or other parcels of real estate, or to 
27.22 	otherwise protect the legitimate interests of such class or classes. No person may utilize 
27.23 	such special classes or class voting for the purpose of evading any limitation imposed by 
27.24 	this chapter on master developers or declarants.
27.25 	(d) Subject to subsection (c)(1), the officers of a master association shall be elected, 
27.26 	appointed, or designated in a manner consistent with the statute under which the master 
27.27 	association is formed and consistent with the master association articles of incorporation 
27.28 	and bylaws.
27.29 	(e) The creation and authority of a master association shall be governed by the 
27.30 	following requirements:
27.31 	(1) A master declaration shall be recorded in connection with the creation of a 
27.32 	master association. The master declaration shall be executed by the owners of the real 
27.33 	estate subjected to the master declaration and by the master developer if not an owner. 
27.34 	The master declaration shall contain, at a minimum:
27.35 	(i) the name of the master association;
28.1 	(ii) a legally sufficient description of the real estate which is subject to the master 
28.2 	declaration, identifying any interest in the real estate which will be owned by the master 
28.3 	association, and a legally sufficient description of any other real estate which may be 
28.4 	subjected to the master declaration pursuant to subsection (f);
28.5 	(iii) a statement as to whether the real estate subject to, and which may be subjected 
28.6 	to, the master declaration collectively is or collectively will be a separate common interest 
28.7 	community;
28.8 	(iv) a description of the members of the master association;
28.9 	(v) a description of the master association's powers. To the extent described in 
28.10 	the master declaration, a master association has the powers with respect to the master 
28.11 	association's members and the property subject to the master declaration that section 
28.12 	515B.3-102 grants to an association with respect to the association's members and the 
28.13 	property subject to the declaration. A master association also has the powers delegated to 
28.14 	it by an association pursuant to subsection (e)(2) or by a property owners' association not 
28.15 	subject to the chapter; provided (A) that the master declaration identifies the powers and 
28.16 	authorizes the delegation either expressly or by a grant of authority to the master board 
28.17 	of the association or property owners' association and (B) that the master association 
28.18 	board has not refused the delegation pursuant to subsection (e)(4). The provisions of 
28.19 	the declarations of the common interest communities, or the provisions of recorded 
28.20 	instruments governing other property subject to the master declaration, that delegate 
28.21 	powers to the master association shall be consistent with the provisions of the master 
28.22 	declaration that govern the delegation of the powers;
28.23 	(vi) a description of the formulas governing the allocation of assessments and 
28.24 	member voting rights, including any special classes or class voting referred to in 
28.25 	subsection (c);
28.26 	(vii) a statement, based upon the master developer's good faith estimate, of the 
28.27 	total number of units and other parcels of real estate intended for ownership by persons 
28.28 	other than a master developer, master association, declarant, or association that are (A) 
28.29 	subject to the master declaration as initially recorded and (B) intended to be created by the 
28.30 	addition of real estate or by the subdivision of units or other parcels of real estate; and
28.31 	(viii) the requirements for amendment of the master declaration, other than an 
28.32 	amendment under subsection (f).
28.33 	(2) The declaration of a common interest community located on property subject to 
28.34 	a master declaration may:
29.1 	(i) delegate any of the powers described in section 515B.3-102 to the 
29.2 	master association; provided, that a delegation of the powers described in section 
29.3 	515B.3-102(a)(2) is effective only if expressly stated in the declaration; and
29.4 	(ii) authorize the master board to delegate any of the powers described in section 
29.5 	515B.3-102, except for the powers described in section 515B.3-102(a)(2), to the master 
29.6 	association.
29.7 	(3) With respect to any other property subject to a master association, there need 
29.8 	not be an instrument other than the master declaration recorded against the property to 
29.9 	empower the master association to exercise powers with respect to the property.
29.10 	(4) If a declaration or other recorded instrument authorizes the master board or 
29.11 	the board of a property owners' association to delegate powers to a master association, 
29.12 	the master board may refuse any delegation of powers that does not comply with (i) 
29.13 	this chapter, (ii) the declaration or other recorded instrument, or (iii) the organizational 
29.14 	documents of the master association.
29.15 	(5) The failure of a declaration, a master board, or an owner of property subject 
29.16 	to a master association to properly delegate some or all of the powers to the master 
29.17 	association does not affect the authority of the master association to exercise those and 
29.18 	other powers with respect to other common interest communities or owners of properties 
29.19 	that are subject to the master association.
29.20 	(6) Any interest in the real estate subject to a master declaration that subsection 
29.21 	(e)(1)(ii) or (f) indicates will be owned by the master association shall be conveyed 
29.22 	to the master association immediately after the recording of the master declaration or 
29.23 	amendment to the master declaration, as applicable.
29.24 	(f) If the master declaration so provides, other real estate may be subjected to the 
29.25 	master declaration. The other real estate shall be subjected to the master declaration by an 
29.26 	amendment executed (i) by the master developer and (ii) by the owner of the other real 
29.27 	estate. The amendment shall identify any ownership interest in the other real estate that 
29.28 	will be owned by the master association.
29.29 	(g) Sections 515B.3-103(a), (b), and (g), 515B.3-108, 515B.3-109, 515B.3-110, and 
29.30 	515B.3-112 shall apply in the conduct of the affairs of a master association. But the rights 
29.31 	of voting, notice, and other rights enumerated in those sections apply to persons who elect 
29.32 	or appoint the directors of a master board, whether or not those persons are otherwise unit 
29.33 	owners within the meaning of this chapter.
29.34 	(h) If so provided in the master declaration, a master association may levy 
29.35 	assessments for common expenses of the master association against its members and the 
29.36 	property subject to the master declaration, and have and foreclose liens securing the 
30.1 	assessments. The assessment liens shall have the same priority against secured parties, 
30.2 	shall include the same fees and charges, and may be foreclosed in the same manner, 
30.3 	as assessment liens under section 515B.3-116. The master association's lien shall have 
30.4 	priority as against the lien of an association or property owners' association subject to the 
30.5 	master association, regardless of when the lien arose or was perfected.
30.6 	(1) Master association common expenses shall be allocated among the members of 
30.7 	the master association in a fair and equitable manner. If the members include associations 
30.8 	or property owners' associations, then the master assessments may be allocated among 
30.9 	and levied against the associations or property owners' associations, or allocated among 
30.10 	and levied against the units or other parcels of real estate owned by the members of the 
30.11 	association or property owners' association. If so provided in the master declaration, 
30.12 	master assessments levied against a member association or property owners' association 
30.13 	are allocated among and levied against the units or other parcels of real estate owned 
30.14 	by the members of the association or property owners' association. If applicable and 
30.15 	appropriate, the formulas and principles described in section 515B.2-108, subsections (b), 
30.16 	(c), (d), and (e), shall be used in making the allocations. The assessment formulas and 
30.17 	procedures described in the declarations of any common interest communities or any 
30.18 	instruments governing other real estate subject to the master association shall not conflict 
30.19 	with the formulas and procedures described in the master declaration.
30.20 	(2) Subject to subsection (i), the master declaration may exempt from liability for all 
30.21 	or a portion of master association assessments any person authorized by subsection (c)(1) 
30.22 	to appoint the members of the master board, or any other person, and exempt any unit or 
30.23 	other parcel of real estate owned by the person from a lien for such assessments, until the 
30.24 	building containing the unit, or located within the boundaries of the unit or other parcel 
30.25 	of real estate, is substantially completed. Substantial completion shall be evidenced by a 
30.26 	certificate of occupancy in a jurisdiction that issues that certificate.
30.27 	(i) A master association shall not be used, directly or indirectly, to avoid or nullify 
30.28 	any warranties or other obligations for which a declarant of a common interest community 
30.29 	subject to the master association is responsible, or to otherwise avoid the requirements 
30.30 	of this chapter.

30.31 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2011.

30.32 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.2-124, is amended to read:
30.33 	515B.2-124 SEVERANCE OF COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY.
31.1 	(a) Unless the declaration provides otherwise, a part of a common interest 
31.2 	community containing one or more units, with or without common elements, may be 
31.3 	severed from the common interest community, subject to the requirements of this section. 
31.4 	Subject to any additional requirements contained in the declaration, the severance shall be 
31.5 	approved in a written severance agreement complying with this section, executed by:
31.6 	(1) unit owners entitled to cast at least 67 percent of the votes in the association, 
31.7 	which approval shall include the approval of unit owners entitled to cast a majority of the 
31.8 	votes allocated to units in the remaining common interest community and the approval 
31.9 	of unit owners entitled to cast a majority of the votes allocated to units in the part of the 
31.10 	common interest community being severed;
31.11 	(2) declarant until the earlier of five years after the recording of the declaration or 
31.12 	the time at which declarant no longer owns an unsold unit; and
31.13 	(3) in the case of a cooperative, all holders of mortgages or contracts for deed on the 
31.14 	entire real estate constituting the cooperative.
31.15 	(b) The declaration may specify a smaller percentage for unit owner approval only if 
31.16 	all of the units are restricted to nonresidential use.
31.17 	(c) The severance agreement shall specify a severance date by which the severance 
31.18 	of the common interest community shall be accomplished, after which the severance 
31.19 	agreement is void. The severance agreement shall be deemed to grant to the association a 
31.20 	power of attorney coupled with an interest to effect the severance of the common interest 
31.21 	community on behalf of the unit owners and the holders of all other interests in the units, 
31.22 	including without limitations the power to execute the amendment to the declaration, any 
31.23 	instruments of conveyance, and all related instruments.
31.24 	(d) The severance agreement shall:
31.25 	(1) Approve an amendment to the declaration complying with this chapter, in 
31.26 	substantially the same form to be recorded, and an amendment to the CIC plat if 
31.27 	required. The declaration amendment shall, at a minimum, (i) legally describe the real 
31.28 	estate constituting the remaining common interest community and the real estate being 
31.29 	severed, (ii) restate the number of units in the remaining common interest community, (iii) 
31.30 	reallocate the interests of the unit owners in the remaining common interest community 
31.31 	among the remaining units in accordance with the allocation formula set forth in the 
31.32 	declaration, and (iv) recite any easements to which the severed portion of the common 
31.33 	interest community remains subject.
31.34 	(2) Approve an amendment to the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the 
31.35 	remaining common interest community, if necessary.
32.1 	(3) Authorize the association to execute and record the amended declaration, articles 
32.2 	of incorporation or bylaws on behalf of the unit owners and all other persons holding an 
32.3 	interest in the remaining common interest community, and to take other actions necessary 
32.4 	to accomplish the severance of the common interest community.
32.5 	(4) Allocate the assets and liabilities of the association between the association and 
32.6 	(i) a new association formed pursuant to subsection (g), or (ii) the owners of the units being 
32.7 	severed, subject to a lien against their interest in the severed real estate or their share in the 
32.8 	assets of the association in favor of any person that held a security interest in their unit.
32.9 	(5) If the units that are being severed from the common interest community will not 
32.10 	be included in a new common interest community that is (i) formed simultaneously with 
32.11 	the severance of the common interest community, and (ii) includes all of the units and 
32.12 	substantially all of the common elements being severed, then the agreement shall contain 
32.13 	the written consent of holders of first mortgages on all units that are being severed, and 
32.14 	shall describe in detail the proposed disposition of all real estate to be severed and all 
32.15 	assets of the association allocated to the severed units, and the distribution of the proceeds 
32.16 	of the disposition, if any, consistent with subsection (i).
32.17 	(e) The severance agreement or a memorandum of it shall be recorded in every 
32.18 	county in which a part of the common interest community is located. The recording of the 
32.19 	severance agreement or memorandum of it shall, from the date of recording, constitute 
32.20 	notice to all persons subsequently acquiring an interest in the common interest community 
32.21 	that the common interest community is being severed, and that those persons acquire their 
32.22 	interests subject to the terms and conditions contained in the severance agreement and 
32.23 	the amendment to the declaration.
32.24 	(f) The amendment to the declaration of the remaining common interest community 
32.25 	shall be recorded on or before the severance date or the severance agreement and the 
32.26 	amendment to the declaration are void as of the day after the severance date. The recording 
32.27 	of the amendment to the declaration shall complete the severance of the common interest 
32.28 	community and release the severed part of the common interest community from the 
32.29 	declaration without further action by any person.
32.30 	(g) If the unit owners whose units that are being severed from the common interest 
32.31 	community intend to form will be included in a new common interest community, then 
32.32 	said unit owners shall, by entitled to cast at least 80 percent of the votes allocated by 
32.33 	the existing declaration to said these units, shall approve a new declaration, articles of 
32.34 	incorporation and bylaws to govern the new common interest community no later than 60 
32.35 	days before the effective date of the severance agreement. However, the new declaration 
32.36 	shall not create, increase, or extend special declarant rights, increase the number of units, 
33.1 	change unit boundaries, change the formula for allocations of interests, change the use of 
33.2 	a unit from residential to nonresidential or conversely, or change the form of common 
33.3 	interest community, unless agreed to in writing by all owners whose units are being 
33.4 	severed. The new declaration shall be recorded simultaneously with the amendment to 
33.5 	the existing declaration. No later than 30 days after the date of the severance agreement,
33.6 	The articles of incorporation creating the association intended to govern the new common 
33.7 	interest community shall be filed with the secretary of state and promptly thereafter the 
33.8 	unit owners whose units are being severed shall elect a board of directors to act on behalf 
33.9 	of the new association before the recording of the new declaration. The new association 
33.10 	shall have a power of attorney coupled with an interest to execute and record the new 
33.11 	declaration, any instruments of conveyance, and all related instruments on behalf of the 
33.12 	unit owners whose units are being severed from the common interest community, but shall 
33.13 	not thereby acquire any rights or obligations of a declarant. The board of directors of the 
33.14 	new association shall cooperate with the board of directors of the existing association to 
33.15 	complete the severance. The existing association shall retain all authority to act on behalf 
33.16 	of the common interest community until the amendment to the existing declaration and 
33.17 	the new declaration are recorded.
33.18 	(h) The legal descriptions of the real estate constituting (i) the remaining common 
33.19 	interest community, and (ii) the severed portion of the common interest community shall, 
33.20 	at the time of recording of the amendment to the declaration referred to in subsection 
33.21 	(e), be as follows:
33.22 	(1) In a planned community using a CIC plat that complies with section 515B.2-110, 
33.23 	subsection (d), the lot and block descriptions contained in the CIC plat, and any 
33.24 	amendments to it, with respect to (i) the remaining common interest community, and (ii) 
33.25 	the severed portion of the common interest community.
33.26 	(2) In a condominium, or cooperative or planned community using a CIC plat that 
33.27 	complies with section 515B.2-110, subsection (c), (i) the CIC plat description relating 
33.28 	to the remaining common interest community, and (ii) the part of the underlying legal 
33.29 	description of the real estate in the declaration creating the common interest community, 
33.30 	and any amendments to it, relating to the severed part of the common interest community.
33.31 	(3) The recording officer for each county in which the common interest community 
33.32 	is located shall index the property located in that county in its records under the legal 
33.33 	descriptions required by this subsection as of the date of recording of the amendment to the 
33.34 	declaration. In the case of registered property, the registrar of titles shall cancel the existing 
33.35 	certificates of title for the severed part of the common interest community and issue 
33.36 	certificates of title for the property using the legal descriptions required by this subsection.
34.1 	(i) In a condominium or planned community, if the severed part of the common 
34.2 	interest community is not to be reconstituted as a new common interest community 
34.3 	following severance, title to all the real estate in the severed part of the common interest 
34.4 	community vests in the unit owners of the units being severed, upon severance, as 
34.5 	provided in the severance agreement.
34.6 	(j) No common interest community shall be severed in such a manner as to 
34.7 	materially impair access, utility services, communication services, or other essential 
34.8 	services with respect to either the remaining common interest community or the severed 
34.9 	part of the common interest community.

34.10 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2011.

34.11 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-102, is amended to read:
34.12 	515B.3-102 POWERS OF UNIT OWNERS' ASSOCIATION.
34.13 	(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), and subject to the provisions of the 
34.14 	declaration or bylaws, the association shall have the power to:
34.15 	(1) adopt, amend and revoke rules and regulations not inconsistent with the articles 
34.16 	of incorporation, bylaws and declaration, as follows: (i) regulating the use of the common 
34.17 	elements; (ii) regulating the use of the units, and conduct of unit occupants, which may 
34.18 	jeopardize the health, safety or welfare of other occupants, which involves noise or 
34.19 	other disturbing activity, or which may damage the common elements or other units; 
34.20 	(iii) regulating or prohibiting animals; (iv) regulating changes in the appearance of the 
34.21 	common elements and conduct which may damage the common interest community; 
34.22 	(v) regulating the exterior appearance of the common interest community, including, 
34.23 	for example, balconies and patios, window treatments, and signs and other displays, 
34.24 	regardless of whether inside a unit; (vi) implementing the articles of incorporation, 
34.25 	declaration and bylaws, and exercising the powers granted by this section; and (vii) 
34.26 	otherwise facilitating the operation of the common interest community;
34.27 	(2) adopt and amend budgets for revenues, expenditures and reserves, and levy and 
34.28 	collect assessments for common expenses from unit owners;
34.29 	(3) hire and discharge managing agents and other employees, agents, and 
34.30 	independent contractors;
34.31 	(4) institute, defend, or intervene in litigation or administrative proceedings (i) in 
34.32 	its own name on behalf of itself or two or more unit owners on matters affecting the 
34.33 	common elements or other matters affecting the common interest community or, (ii) with 
34.34 	the consent of the owners of the affected units on matters affecting only those units;
35.1 	(5) make contracts and incur liabilities;
35.2 	(6) regulate the use, maintenance, repair, replacement, and modification of the 
35.3 	common elements and the units;
35.4 	(7) cause improvements to be made as a part of the common elements, and, in the 
35.5 	case of a cooperative, the units;
35.6 	(8) acquire, hold, encumber, and convey in its own name any right, title, or interest 
35.7 	to real estate or personal property, but (i) common elements in a condominium or planned 
35.8 	community may be conveyed or subjected to a security interest only pursuant to section 
35.9 	515B.3-112, or (ii) part of a cooperative may be conveyed, or all or part of a cooperative 
35.10 	may be subjected to a security interest, only pursuant to section 515B.3-112;
35.11 	(9) grant or amend easements for public utilities, public rights-of-way or other 
35.12 	public purposes, and cable television or other communications, through, over or under 
35.13 	the common elements; grant or amend easements, leases, or licenses to unit owners for 
35.14 	purposes authorized by the declaration; and, subject to approval by a vote of unit owners 
35.15 	other than declarant or its affiliates, grant or amend other easements, leases, and licenses 
35.16 	through, over or under the common elements;
35.17 	(10) impose and receive any payments, fees, or charges for the use, rental, or 
35.18 	operation of the common elements, other than limited common elements, and for services 
35.19 	provided to unit owners;
35.20 	(11) impose interest and late charges for late payment of assessments and, after 
35.21 	notice and an opportunity to be heard before the board or a committee appointed by it, 
35.22 	levy reasonable fines for violations of the declaration, bylaws, and rules and regulations 
35.23 	of the association;
35.24 	(12) impose reasonable charges for the review, preparation and recordation of 
35.25 	amendments to the declaration, resale certificates required by section 515B.4-107, 
35.26 	statements of unpaid assessments, or furnishing copies of association records;
35.27 	(13) provide for the indemnification of its officers and directors, and maintain 
35.28 	directors' and officers' liability insurance;
35.29 	(14) provide for reasonable procedures governing the conduct of meetings and 
35.30 	election of directors;
35.31 	(15) exercise any other powers conferred by law, or by the declaration, articles 
35.32 	of incorporation or bylaws; and
35.33 	(16) exercise any other powers necessary and proper for the governance and 
35.34 	operation of the association.
35.35 	(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) the declaration or bylaws may not impose 
35.36 	limitations on the power of the association to deal with the declarant which are more 
36.1 	restrictive than the limitations imposed on the power of the association to deal with other 
36.2 	persons.
36.3 	(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), powers exercised under this section must comply 
36.4 	with section 500.215.

36.5 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective August 1, 2011.

36.6 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-104, is amended to read:
36.7 	515B.3-104 SPECIAL DECLARANT RIGHTS; TRANSFER OF SPECIAL 
36.8 	DECLARANT RIGHTS, LIABILITY OF TRANSFEROR AND TRANSFEREE, 
36.9 	AND TERMINATION.
36.10 	(a) Except as set forth in subsection (b) or (c), a special declarant right, as defined in 
36.11 	section 515B.1-103(33), does not run with title and may only be transferred pursuant to 
36.12 	a separate transfer instrument, titled a "Transfer of Special Declarant Rights," that both 
36.13 	the transferor and the transferee execute.
36.14 	(1) A transfer shall be recorded in compliance with applicable law, and is not 
36.15 	effective (i) unless recorded and (ii) unless the transferee is the owner of record of a unit 
36.16 	or additional real estate at the time the transfer is recorded.
36.17 	(2) A transferor may transfer fewer than all of the special declarant rights the 
36.18 	transferor holds provided that any special declarant rights not transferred are subject 
36.19 	to item (i).
36.20 	(3) If as a result of a transfer there will be multiple declarants holding special 
36.21 	declarant rights, the transfer shall describe the allocation of each special declarant 
36.22 	right between or among the transferor and each transferee, including, at a minimum, a 
36.23 	description of the units or additional real estate to which the respective special declarant 
36.24 	rights apply and the name and address of the owner or owners of record of the respective 
36.25 	units or additional real estate at the time the transfer is recorded.
36.26 	(b) If a declarant's ownership interest in a unit, or in additional real estate that may 
36.27 	become subject to the declaration pursuant to the exercise of a special declarant right, is 
36.28 	transferred to another person as a result of the foreclosure, termination, or cancellation of 
36.29 	a security interest, foreclosure of a judgment lien, tax judgment sale, tax-forfeited land 
36.30 	sale, sale or transfer under bankruptcy code or receivership proceedings, or other sale or 
36.31 	transfer approved by a court, or is transferred by a deed in lieu of foreclosure, then all 
36.32 	special declarant rights that are reserved to the declarant in the declaration and that relate 
36.33 	to the units or additional real estate transferred are automatically transferred to the person 
36.34 	acquiring title from the declarant, and the transfer is effective as to all special declarant 
37.1 	rights, unless or until: (i) the security instrument in the case of the foreclosure, termination, 
37.2 	or cancellation of a security interest, (ii) the instrument effecting the involuntary transfer, 
37.3 	or (iii) a separate instrument executed by the transferee and recorded in compliance with 
37.4 	applicable law within 60 days after the date the transferee acquires title to the declarant's 
37.5 	ownership interest, provides for the transfer of fewer than all of the declarant's special 
37.6 	declarant rights. For purposes of this subsection, the transferee shall be deemed to acquire 
37.7 	title upon the expiration of the owner's period of redemption, or reinstatement in the case 
37.8 	of contract for deed. The transferor shall cease to have and shall not exercise any special 
37.9 	declarant right that relates to the transferor's ownership interest in the units or additional 
37.10 	real estate transferred, whether or not the transferee subsequently disclaims the right, 
37.11 	but the transferor retains all reserved special declarant rights that relate to its ownership 
37.12 	interest that is not transferred to the transferee.
37.13 	(c) If a declarant is an individual rather than a legal entity, and the individual dies, 
37.14 	then all special declarant rights that are reserved to the declarant in the declaration and 
37.15 	that relate to the units or additional real estate owned by the declarant are automatically 
37.16 	transferred with the title to said units or additional real estate.
37.17 	(d) A transferor's liability for the performance of obligations that this chapter 
37.18 	imposes upon a declarant is as follows:
37.19 	(1) A transferor remains liable under this chapter for all obligations that this chapter 
37.20 	imposes upon a declarant and arising on or before the effective date of the transfer, except 
37.21 	that a transferor is not liable under section 515B.4-112 for any express warranties that 
37.22 	a transferee makes to a purchaser. Except as set forth in subsection (d)(2) and (3), a 
37.23 	transferor is not liable under this chapter for the performance of any obligations that this 
37.24 	chapter imposes upon a declarant and arising after the effective date of the transfer.
37.25 	(2) If a transferor and a transferee are affiliates, the transferor and the transferee are 
37.26 	jointly and severally liable under this chapter for the performance of all the obligations that 
37.27 	this chapter imposes upon a declarant, whether such obligations arise before, on, or after 
37.28 	the effective date of the transfer. Upon a subsequent transfer, a prior transferor remains 
37.29 	liable to the extent its transferee remains liable under subsection (d) and is relieved of 
37.30 	liability to the same extent that its transferee is relieved of liability under subsection (e).
37.31 	(3) If, following a transfer of special declarant rights, the transferor retains special 
37.32 	declarant rights, the transferor and transferee are jointly and severally liable for the 
37.33 	performance of all the obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant and that arise 
37.34 	after the effective date of the transfer, except that the transferor is not liable under section 
37.35 	515B.4-101(b) or 515B.4-102(b), and section 515B.4-109, 515B.4-110, 515B.4-111, 
38.1 	515B.4-112, 515B4.-113, 515B.4-117, or 515B.4-118, to any purchaser from or through 
38.2 	the transferee.
38.3 	(e) Except as provided in subsections (g) and (h), a transferee's liability for the 
38.4 	performance of obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant is as follows:
38.5 	(1) Except as set forth in subsection (e)(3), a transferee is liable under this chapter for 
38.6 	all obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant and that arise after the effective 
38.7 	date of the transfer. A transferee is not liable under this chapter for the performance of 
38.8 	any obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant and that arise before or on the 
38.9 	effective date of the transfer, except that a transferee is liable under section 515B.4-112 
38.10 	for any express warranties the transferee makes to a purchaser before or on the effective 
38.11 	date of the transfer.
38.12 	(2) If a transferor and a transferee are affiliates, the transferor and the transferee are 
38.13 	jointly and severally liable under this chapter for the performance of all the obligations that 
38.14 	this chapter imposes upon a declarant, whether such obligations arise before, on, or after 
38.15 	the effective date of the transfer. Upon a subsequent transfer, a prior transferor remains 
38.16 	liable to the extent its transferee remains liable under subsection (d) and is relieved of 
38.17 	liability to the same extent that its transferee is relieved of liability under this subsection.
38.18 	(3) If, following a transfer of special declarant rights under subsection (a) or (b), 
38.19 	the transferor retains special declarant rights, the transferor and transferee are jointly and 
38.20 	severally liable for the performance of all the obligations that this chapter imposes upon a 
38.21 	declarant and that arise after the effective date of the transfer, except that the transferee 
38.22 	is not liable under section 515B.4-101(b) or 515B.4-102(b), and section 515B.4-109, 
38.23 	515B.4-110, 515B.4-111, 515B.4-112, 515B.4-113, 515B.4-117, or 515B.4-118, to any 
38.24 	purchaser from or through the transferor.
38.25 	(f) For purposes of this section, a declarant's obligations under section 515B.3-111(a)
38.26 	arise when the tort or contract violation occurs; a declarant's obligations to a purchaser 
38.27 	under section 515B.4-112 arise when the declarant makes an express warranty to the 
38.28 	purchaser; and a declarant's obligations to a purchaser under sections 515B.4-113 and 
38.29 	515B.4-118(a), arise when the declarant conveys a unit to the purchaser.
38.30 	(g) A transferee who acquires special declarant rights pursuant to subsection (b) and 
38.31 	who is not an affiliate of the transferor may record an instrument in compliance with 
38.32 	subsection (b) stating that the transferee elects to acquire only the special declarant rights 
38.33 	described in section 515B.1-103(33)(i), (ii), and (iv). In that case, the transferee is liable 
38.34 	as a declarant only to purchasers from said transferee and only for the obligations of a 
38.35 	declarant under sections 515B.4-101(b) and 515B.4-102(b), and sections 515B.4-109, 
39.1 	515B.4-110, 515B.4-111, 515B.4-113, 515B.4-117, and 515B.4-118, and for any express 
39.2 	warranties under section 515B.4-112 that the transferee makes to purchasers.
39.3 	(h) A transferee who acquires special declarant rights pursuant to subsection (b) and 
39.4 	who is not an affiliate of the transferor may record an instrument in compliance with 
39.5 	subsection (b) stating that the transferee elects to acquire the special declarant rights 
39.6 	solely for subsequent retransfer to another person who acquires title to units or additional 
39.7 	real estate from said transferee. In that case, (i) the transferee may not utilize special 
39.8 	declarant rights in the sale of units or otherwise sell units, except to a person who also 
39.9 	acquires one or more special declarant rights the transferee holds with respect to the units 
39.10 	or additional real estate sold; (ii) the transferee may not exercise any special declarant 
39.11 	rights other than the rights described in section 515B.1-103(33)(v); (iii) the transferee is 
39.12 	not liable to make up any operating deficit under section 515B.3-115(a)(2); and (iv) the 
39.13 	transferee is liable as a declarant only for the obligations of a declarant under sections 
39.14 	515B.3-103, 515B.3-111, and 515B.3-120, as applicable. A transferee who makes the 
39.15 	election described in this subsection may subsequently rescind the election in whole 
39.16 	or in part by recording an instrument in compliance with applicable law, and upon the 
39.17 	recording of such an instrument the transferee's rights and obligations as a declarant shall 
39.18 	be as otherwise set forth in this section.
39.19 	(i) A special declarant right held by a declarant terminates upon the earlier of: (i) that 
39.20 	declarant's voluntary surrender of the special declarant right by giving written notice to the 
39.21 	unit owners pursuant to section 515B.1-115; or (ii) the conveyance, whether voluntary 
39.22 	or involuntary, by that declarant, of all of the units and additional real estate owned by 
39.23 	that declarant, unless immediately after the conveyance the special declarant right is 
39.24 	transferred to the grantee. All special declarant rights terminate ten years after the date of 
39.25 	the first conveyance of a unit to a person other than a declarant unless extended by the 
39.26 	vote or written agreement of unit owners entitled to cast at least 67 percent of the votes 
39.27 	allocated to units not owned by a declarant.
39.28 	(j) No person shall exercise special declarant rights unless, at the time of exercise, 
39.29 	the person holds title of record to one or more units or additional real estate. Any exercise 
39.30 	of a special declarant right in violation of this section shall be void, and the person 
39.31 	attempting to exercise the right shall be liable for all damages and costs arising from its 
39.32 	actions. Nothing in this section shall subject any transferee of a special declarant right to 
39.33 	any claims against or other obligations of a transferor, other than claims and obligations 
39.34 	arising under this chapter, or the declaration or bylaws.
39.35 	(a) A special declarant right created or reserved under this chapter may be 
39.36 	voluntarily transferred only by a separate instrument evidencing the transfer recorded 
40.1 	in every county in which any part of the common interest community is located. The 
40.2 	separate instrument shall be recorded against all units in the common interest community, 
40.3 	or in the case of a cooperative, against the real estate owned by the cooperative, or in 
40.4 	the case of a condominium on registered land, the instrument must be filed pursuant to 
40.5 	section 508.351, subdivision 3, or 508A.351, subdivision 3. The instrument may provide 
40.6 	for the conveyance of less than all of the special declarant rights, and is not effective 
40.7 	unless executed by the transferor and transferee. A deed in lieu of foreclosure, or other 
40.8 	conveyance arising out of a foreclosure or cancellation, shall not be deemed a voluntary 
40.9 	transfer within the meaning of this section.
40.10 	(b) Upon the voluntary transfer of any special declarant right, the liability of a 
40.11 	transferor declarant is as follows:
40.12 	(1) A transferor is not relieved of any obligation or liability arising before the 
40.13 	transfer and remains liable for warranty obligations imposed on the transferor by this 
40.14 	chapter. Lack of privity does not deprive any unit owner of standing to maintain an action 
40.15 	to enforce any obligation of the transferor.
40.16 	(2) If a successor to any special declarant right is an affiliate of a declarant, the 
40.17 	transferor is jointly and severally liable with the successor for any obligations or liabilities 
40.18 	of the successor relating to the common interest community.
40.19 	(3) If a transferor retains any special declarant rights, but transfers other special 
40.20 	declarant rights to a successor who is not an affiliate of the declarant, the transferor is 
40.21 	liable for any obligations or liabilities imposed on a declarant by this chapter or by the 
40.22 	declaration relating to the retained special declarant rights and arising before or after 
40.23 	the transfer.
40.24 	(4) A transferor has no liability for any act or omission or any breach of a contractual 
40.25 	or warranty obligation arising from the exercise of a special declarant right by a successor 
40.26 	declarant who is not an affiliate of the transferor.
40.27 	(c) Upon the voluntary transfer of any special declarant right, the liability of a 
40.28 	successor declarant is as follows:
40.29 	(1) A successor to any special declarant right who is an affiliate of a declarant is 
40.30 	subject to all obligations and liabilities imposed on the transferor by this chapter or the 
40.31 	declaration.
40.32 	(2) A successor to any special declarant right who is not an affiliate of a declarant 
40.33 	is subject to all obligations and liabilities imposed by this chapter or by the declaration, 
40.34 	except:
40.35 	(i) misrepresentations by any previous declarant;
41.1 	(ii) warranty obligations on improvements made by any previous declarant, or made 
41.2 	before the common interest community was created;
41.3 	(iii) breach of any fiduciary obligation by any previous declarant or the declarant's 
41.4 	appointees to the board;
41.5 	(iv) any liability or obligation imposed on the transferor as a result of the transferor's 
41.6 	acts or omissions after the transfer; and
41.7 	(v) any liability arising out of a special declarant right which was not transferred as 
41.8 	provided in subsection (a).
41.9 	(d) In case of foreclosure of a mortgage or cancellation of a contract for deed or 
41.10 	other security interest (or conveyance in lieu thereof), sale by a trustee under an agreement 
41.11 	creating a security interest, tax sale, judicial sale, or sale under bankruptcy code or 
41.12 	receivership proceedings, of any units or additional real estate, or interest therein, owned 
41.13 	by a declarant, a person acquiring title to the property or interests succeeds to all special 
41.14 	declarant rights related to the property or interests held by that declarant and acquired by it 
41.15 	unless (i) the mortgage instrument or other instrument creating the security interest, (ii) the 
41.16 	instrument conveying title, or (iii) a separate instrument signed by the person and recorded 
41.17 	within 60 days after the person acquires title to the property or interests, provides for 
41.18 	transfer of less than all special declarant rights. The separate instrument need be recorded 
41.19 	only against the title to the units or interests other than those being acquired under this 
41.20 	subsection, or in the case of a cooperative, against the real estate owned by the cooperative. 
41.21 	The declarant shall cease to have or exercise any special declarant rights which are 
41.22 	transferred. If the person has limited the transfer of certain special declarant rights as 
41.23 	provided in this subsection, then it and its successor's liability shall be limited, as follows:
41.24 	(1) If the person or its successor limits its rights and liabilities only to maintain 
41.25 	models, sales office and signs, and if that party is not an affiliate of a declarant, it is not 
41.26 	subject to any liability or obligations as a declarant, except the obligation to provide a 
41.27 	disclosure statement and any liability arising from that obligation, and it may not exercise 
41.28 	any other special declarant rights.
41.29 	(2) If the person or its successor is not an affiliate of a declarant, it may declare its 
41.30 	intention in a recorded instrument as provided in subsection (a) to acquire all special 
41.31 	declarant rights and hold those rights solely for transfer to another person. Thereafter, until 
41.32 	the special declarant rights are transferred to a person acquiring title to any unit owned by 
41.33 	the successor, or until a separate instrument is recorded permitting exercise of all of those 
41.34 	rights, that successor may not exercise any of those rights other than the right to control 
41.35 	the board of directors in accordance with the provisions of section 515B.3-103 for the 
41.36 	duration of any period of declarant control. So long as any successor may not exercise its 
42.1 	special declarant rights under this subsection, it is not subject to any liability or obligation 
42.2 	as a declarant other than liability for its acts and omissions under section 515B.3-103.
42.3 	(e) Any attempted exercise by a purported successor to a special declarant right 
42.4 	which is not transferred as provided in this section is void, and any purported successor 
42.5 	attempting to exercise that right shall be liable for any damages arising out of its actions.
42.6 	(f) Nothing in this section shall subject any successor to a special declarant right to 
42.7 	any claims against or other obligations of a transferor declarant, other than claims and 
42.8 	obligations arising under this chapter, or the declaration or bylaws.
42.9 	(g) This section applies only to transfers of special declarant rights that are effective 
42.10 	before August 1, 2010.

42.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

42.12 	Sec. 11. [515B.3-1041] SPECIAL DECLARANT RIGHTS; TRANSFER OF 
42.13 	SPECIAL DECLARANT RIGHTS, LIABILITY OF TRANSFEROR AND 
42.14 	TRANSFEREE, AND TERMINATION.
42.15 	(a) Except as set forth in subsection (b) or (c), a special declarant right, as defined in 
42.16 	section 515B.1-103(33b), does not run with title and may only be transferred pursuant to 
42.17 	a separate transfer instrument, titled a "Transfer of Special Declarant Rights," that both 
42.18 	the transferor and the transferee execute.
42.19 	(1) A transfer shall be recorded in compliance with applicable law, and is not 
42.20 	effective unless the transferee is the owner of record of a unit or additional real estate at 
42.21 	the time the transfer is recorded. Transfers recorded on or after the effective date of this 
42.22 	section shall be recorded against title to all units in the common interest community.
42.23 	(2) A transferor may transfer fewer than all of the special declarant rights the 
42.24 	transferor holds provided that any special declarant rights not transferred are subject 
42.25 	to item (i).
42.26 	(3) If as a result of a transfer there will be multiple declarants holding special 
42.27 	declarant rights, the transfer shall describe the allocation of each special declarant 
42.28 	right between or among the transferor and each transferee, including, at a minimum, a 
42.29 	description of the units or additional real estate to which the respective special declarant 
42.30 	rights apply and the name and address of the owner or owners of record of the respective 
42.31 	units or additional real estate at the time the transfer is recorded.
42.32 	(b) If a declarant's ownership interest in a unit, or in additional real estate that may 
42.33 	become subject to the declaration pursuant to the exercise of a special declarant right, is 
42.34 	transferred to another person as a result of the foreclosure, termination, or cancellation of 
42.35 	a security interest, foreclosure of a judgment lien, tax judgment sale, tax forfeited land 
43.1 	sale, sale or transfer under bankruptcy code or receivership proceedings, or other sale or 
43.2 	transfer approved by a court, or is transferred by a deed in lieu of foreclosure, then all 
43.3 	special declarant rights that are reserved to the declarant in the declaration and that relate 
43.4 	to the units or additional real estate transferred are automatically transferred to the person 
43.5 	acquiring title from the declarant, and the transfer is effective as to all special declarant 
43.6 	rights, unless or until: (i) the security instrument in the case of the foreclosure, termination, 
43.7 	or cancellation of a security interest, (ii) the instrument effecting the involuntary transfer, 
43.8 	or (iii) a separate instrument executed by the transferee and recorded in compliance with 
43.9 	applicable law within 60 days after the date the transferee acquires title to the declarant's 
43.10 	ownership interest, provides for the transfer of fewer than all of the declarant's special 
43.11 	declarant rights. From and after the effective date of this section, a separate instrument 
43.12 	recorded pursuant to subsection (b), item (iii), shall be recorded against title to all units 
43.13 	in the common interest community. For purposes of this subsection, the transferee shall 
43.14 	be deemed to acquire title upon the expiration of the owner's period of redemption, or 
43.15 	reinstatement in the case of contract for deed. The transferor shall cease to have and shall 
43.16 	not exercise any special declarant right that relates to the transferor's ownership interest in 
43.17 	the units or additional real estate transferred, whether or not the transferee subsequently 
43.18 	disclaims the right, but the transferor retains all reserved special declarant rights that relate 
43.19 	to its ownership interest that is not transferred to the transferee.
43.20 	(c) If a declarant is an individual rather than a legal entity, and the individual dies, 
43.21 	than all special declarant rights that are reserved to the declarant in the declaration and 
43.22 	that relate to the units or additional real estate owned by the declarant are automatically 
43.23 	transferred with the title to said units or additional real estate.
43.24 	(d) A transferor's liability for the performance of obligations that this chapter 
43.25 	imposes upon a declarant is as follows:
43.26 	(1) A transferor remains liable under this chapter for all obligations that this chapter 
43.27 	imposes upon a declarant that arise on or before the effective date of the transfer, except 
43.28 	that a transferor is not liable under section 515B.4-112 for any express warranties that a 
43.29 	transferee makes to a purchaser. Except as set forth in subsection (d), clauses (2) and (3), a 
43.30 	transferor is not liable under this chapter for the performance of any obligations that this 
43.31 	chapter imposes upon a declarant and arising after the effective date of the transfer.
43.32 	(2) If a transferor and a transferee are affiliates, the transferor and the transferee are 
43.33 	jointly and severally liable under this chapter for the performance of all the obligations that 
43.34 	this chapter imposes upon a declarant, whether such obligations arise before, on, or after 
43.35 	the effective date of the transfer. Upon a subsequent transfer, a prior transferor remains 
44.1 	liable to the extent its transferee remains liable under subsection (d) and is relieved of 
44.2 	liability to the same extent that its transferee is relieved of liability under subsection (e).
44.3 	(3) If, following a transfer of special declarant rights, the transferor retains special 
44.4 	declarant rights, the transferor and transferee are jointly and severally liable for the 
44.5 	performance of all the obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant and that arise 
44.6 	after the effective date of the transfer, except that the transferor is not liable under section 
44.7 	515B.4-101(b) or 515B.4-102(b), and section 515B.4-109, 515B.4-110, 515B.4-111, 
44.8 	515B.4-112, 515B.4-113, 515B.4-117, or 515B.4-118, to any purchaser from or through 
44.9 	the transferee.
44.10 	(e) Except as provided in subsections (g) and (h), a transferee's liability for the 
44.11 	performance of obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant is as follows:
44.12 	(1) Except as set forth in subsection (e), clause (3), a transferee is liable under this 
44.13 	chapter for all obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant and that arise after 
44.14 	the effective date of the transfer. A transferee is not liable under this chapter for the 
44.15 	performance of any obligations that this chapter imposes upon a declarant and that arise 
44.16 	before or on the effective date of the transfer, except that a transferee is liable under 
44.17 	section 515B.4-112 for any express warranties the transferee makes to a purchaser before 
44.18 	or on the effective date of the transfer.
44.19 	(2) If a transferor and a transferee are affiliates, the transferor and the transferee are 
44.20 	jointly and severally liable under this chapter for the performance of all the obligations that 
44.21 	this chapter imposes upon a declarant, whether such obligations arise before, on, or after 
44.22 	the effective date of the transfer. Upon a subsequent transfer, a prior transferor remains 
44.23 	liable to the extent its transferee remains liable under subsection (d) and is relieved of 
44.24 	liability to the same extent that its transferee is relieved of liability under this subsection.
44.25 	(3) If, following a transfer of special declarant rights under subsection (a) or (b), 
44.26 	the transferor retains special declarant rights, the transferor and transferee are jointly and 
44.27 	severally liable for the performance of all the obligations that this chapter imposes upon a 
44.28 	declarant and that arise after the effective date of the transfer, except that the transferee 
44.29 	is not liable under section 515B.4-101(b) or 515B.4-102(b), and section 515B.4-109, 
44.30 	515B.4-110, 515B.4-111, 515B.4-112, 515B.4-113, 515B.4-117, or 515B.4-118, to any 
44.31 	purchaser from or through the transferor.
44.32 	(f) For purposes of this section, a declarant's obligations under section 515B.3-111(a) 
44.33 	arise when the tort or contract violation occurs, a declarant's obligations to a purchaser 
44.34 	under section 515B.4-112 arise when the declarant makes an express warranty to the 
44.35 	purchaser and a declarant's obligations to a purchaser under sections 515B.4-113 and 
44.36 	515B.4-118(a) arise when the declarant conveys a unit to the purchaser.
45.1 	(g) A transferee who acquires special declarant rights pursuant to subsection (b) and 
45.2 	who is not an affiliate of the transferor may record an instrument in compliance with 
45.3 	subsection (b) stating that the transferee elects to acquire only the special declarant rights 
45.4 	described in section 515B.1-103(33b)(i), (ii), and (iv). In that case, the transferee is liable 
45.5 	as a declarant only to purchasers from said transferee and only for the obligations of a 
45.6 	declarant under sections 515B.4-101(b) and 515B.4-102(b), and sections 515B.4-109, 
45.7 	515B.4-110, 515B.4-111, 515B.4-113, 515B.4-117, and 515B.4-118, and for any express 
45.8 	warranties under section 515B.4-112 that the transferee makes to purchasers.
45.9 	(h) A transferee who acquires special declarant rights pursuant to subsection (b) and 
45.10 	who is not an affiliate of the transferor may record an instrument in compliance with 
45.11 	subsection (b) stating that the transferee elects to acquire the special declarant rights 
45.12 	solely for subsequent retransfer to another person who acquires title to units or additional 
45.13 	real estate from said transferee. In that case, (i) the transferee may not utilize special 
45.14 	declarant rights in the sale of units or otherwise sell units, except to a person who also 
45.15 	acquires one or more special declarant rights the transferee holds with respect to the units 
45.16 	or additional real estate sold; (ii) the transferee may not exercise any special declarant 
45.17 	rights other than the rights described in section 515B.1-103(33b)(v); (iii) the transferee is 
45.18 	not liable to make up any operating deficit under section 515B.3-115(a)(2); and (iv) the 
45.19 	transferee is liable as a declarant only for the obligations of a declarant under sections 
45.20 	515B.3-103, 515B.3-111, and 515B.3-120, as applicable. A transferee who makes the 
45.21 	election described in this subsection may subsequently rescind the election in whole 
45.22 	or in part by recording an instrument in compliance with applicable law, and upon the 
45.23 	recording of such an instrument the transferee's rights and obligations as a declarant shall 
45.24 	be as otherwise set forth in this section.
45.25 	(i) Nothing in this section shall subject any transferee of a special declarant right to 
45.26 	any claims against or other obligations of a transferor, other than claims and obligations 
45.27 	arising under this chapter, or the declaration or bylaws.
45.28 	(j) A special declarant right held by a declarant terminates upon the earlier of: (i) that 
45.29 	declarant's voluntary surrender of the special declarant right by giving written notice to the 
45.30 	unit owners pursuant to section 515B.1-115; or (ii) the conveyance, whether voluntary 
45.31 	or involuntary, by that declarant, of all of the units and additional real estate owned by 
45.32 	that declarant, unless immediately after the conveyance the special declarant right is 
45.33 	transferred to the grantee. All special declarant rights terminate ten years after the date of 
45.34 	the first conveyance of a unit to a person other than a declarant unless extended by the 
45.35 	vote or written agreement of unit owners entitled to cast at least 67 percent of the votes 
45.36 	allocated to units not owned by a declarant.
46.1 	(k) No person shall exercise special declarant rights unless, at the time of exercise, 
46.2 	the person holds title of record to one or more units or additional real estate. Any 
46.3 	exercise of a special declarant right in violation of this section shall be void, and the 
46.4 	person attempting to exercise the right shall be liable for all damages and costs arising 
46.5 	from its actions.
46.6 	(l) Subsections (a) through (i) apply only to transfers of special declarant rights that 
46.7 	are effective on or after August 1, 2010. Subsections (j) and (k) apply only to special 
46.8 	declarant rights reserved in a declaration that is first recorded on or after August 1, 2010.

46.9 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

46.10 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-105, is amended to read:
46.11 	515B.3-105 TERMINATION OF CONTRACTS, LEASES, LICENSES.
46.12 	(a) If entered into prior to termination of the period of declarant control, (i) any 
46.13 	management, employment, maintenance, or operations contract or any lease or license 
46.14 	of recreational, parking, or storage facilities, that is binding on the association; (ii) any 
46.15 	other contract, lease, or license entered into by the association, a declarant or an affiliate of 
46.16 	a declarant that is binding on the association; or (iii) any contract, lease, or license that 
46.17 	is binding on the association or all unit owners other than a declarant or an affiliate of a 
46.18 	declarant which is not bona fide or which was unconscionable to the association or the unit 
46.19 	owners at the time entered into under the circumstances then prevailing, may be terminated 
46.20 	without penalty by the association under the procedures described in this section.
46.21 	(b) If entered into prior to the termination of the period of master developer control 
46.22 	described in section 515B.2-121, subsection (c), paragraph (1), a contract, lease, or license 
46.23 	of a type described in subsection (a) is entered into by the master developer and is binding 
46.24 	upon the master association, then the master association may terminate the contract, lease, 
46.25 	or license under the procedures described in this section.
46.26 	(c) Termination shall be upon no less than 90 days' notice. Notice of termination 
46.27 	shall be given by the association or master association, as applicable, in accordance with 
46.28 	section 515B.1-115; provided, that notice shall be effective only if given within two 
46.29 	years following the termination of the period of declarant control or the period of master 
46.30 	developer control, as applicable.
46.31 	(d) This section does not apply to the following, provided that the rights and 
46.32 	obligations created by the referenced instruments are (i) bona fide and not unconscionable 
46.33 	as contemplated by subsection (a)(iii); and (ii) disclosed to the purchaser of the unit in 
46.34 	the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102:
47.1 	(1) a lease the termination of which would terminate the common interest 
47.2 	community;
47.3 	(2) in the case of a cooperative, a mortgage or contract for deed encumbering 
47.4 	real estate owned by the association, except that if the mortgage or contract for deed 
47.5 	contains a contractual obligation involving a type of contract, lease, or license which 
47.6 	may be terminated pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), then that contractual obligation may 
47.7 	be terminated pursuant to subsection (c);
47.8 	(3) an agreement between a declarant, an affiliate of a declarant, or a master 
47.9 	developer, and any governmental entity, if such agreement is necessary to obtain 
47.10 	governmental approvals, provide financing under any type of government program, or 
47.11 	provide for governmentally required access, conservation, drainage, utilities, or other 
47.12 	public purpose; or
47.13 	(4) subject to the requirements of section 515B.4-110 (a), a lease, easement, 
47.14 	covenant, condition, or restriction that (i) is recorded before the recording of the 
47.15 	declaration, and (ii) runs in favor of a person other than a declarant or an affiliate of a 
47.16 	declarant.
47.17 	(a) If entered into prior to termination of the period of declarant control, (i) any 
47.18 	management contract, employment contract, or lease of recreational facilities, or garages 
47.19 	or other parking facilities, (ii) any contract, lease, or license binding the association, and to 
47.20 	which a declarant or an affiliate of a declarant is a party, or (iii) any contract, lease, or 
47.21 	license binding the association or any unit owner other than the declarant or an affiliate of 
47.22 	the declarant which is not bona fide or which was unconscionable to the unit owners at 
47.23 	the time entered into under the circumstances then prevailing, may be terminated without 
47.24 	penalty by the association under the procedures described in this section.
47.25 	(b) If prior to expiration of the suspension period described in section 515B.2-121, 
47.26 	subsection (c), paragraph (3), a contract, lease, or license of a type described in subsection 
47.27 	(a) is entered into by a person having authority to appoint the directors of the master 
47.28 	association and is binding upon the master association, then the master association, and 
47.29 	not any association, may terminate the contract, lease, or license under the procedures 
47.30 	described in this section.
47.31 	(c) Termination shall be upon no less than 90 days' notice. Notice of termination 
47.32 	shall be given by the association or master association, as applicable, in accordance with 
47.33 	section 515B.1-115; provided, that notice shall be effective only if given within two years 
47.34 	following the termination of the period of declarant control or the suspension period 
47.35 	described in section 515B.2-121, subsection (c), paragraph (3), as applicable.
47.36 	(d) This section does not apply to:
48.1 	(1) any lease the termination of which would terminate the common interest 
48.2 	community;
48.3 	(2) in the case of a cooperative, a mortgage or contract for deed encumbering 
48.4 	real estate owned by the association, except that if the mortgage or contract for deed 
48.5 	contains a contractual obligation involving a type of contract, lease, or license which may 
48.6 	be terminated pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), then that contractual obligation may be 
48.7 	terminated pursuant to subsection (c); or
48.8 	(3) an agreement between a declarant or an affiliate of a declarant, or a person 
48.9 	having authority pursuant to section 515B.2-121, subsection (c), paragraph (3), to appoint 
48.10 	the directors of the master association, and any governmental entity, if such agreement 
48.11 	is necessary to obtain governmental approvals, provide financing under any type of 
48.12 	government program, or provide for governmentally required access, conservation, 
48.13 	drainage, or utilities.
48.14 	(e) This section applies only to common interest communities created before August 
48.15 	1, 2010.

48.16 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

48.17 	Sec. 13. [515B.3-1051] TERMINATION OF CONTRACTS, LEASES, 
48.18 	LICENSES.
48.19 	(a) If entered into prior to termination of the period of declarant control, (i) any 
48.20 	management, employment, maintenance, or operations contract or any lease or license of 
48.21 	recreational, parking, or storage facilities, that is binding on the association; (ii) any other 
48.22 	contract, lease, or license entered into by the association, a declarant or an affiliate of a 
48.23 	declarant that is binding on the association; or (iii) any contract, lease, or license that is 
48.24 	binding on the association or all unit owners other than a declarant or an affiliate of the 
48.25 	declarant which is not bona fide or which was unconscionable to the association or the unit 
48.26 	owners at the time entered into under the circumstances then prevailing, may be terminated 
48.27 	without penalty by the association under the procedures described in this section.
48.28 	(b) If entered into prior to the termination of the period of master developer control 
48.29 	described in section 515B.2-121, subsection (c), paragraph (1), a contract, lease, or license 
48.30 	of a type described in subsection (a) is entered into by the master developer and is binding 
48.31 	upon the master association, then the master association may terminate the contract, lease, 
48.32 	or license under the procedures described in this section.
48.33 	(c) Termination shall be upon no less than 90 days' notice. Notice of termination 
48.34 	shall be given by the association or master association, as applicable, in accordance with 
48.35 	section 515B.1-115; provided that notice shall be effective only if given within two years 
49.1 	following the termination of the period of declarant control or the period of master 
49.2 	developer control, as applicable.
49.3 	(d) This section does not apply to the following, provided that the rights and 
49.4 	obligations created by the referenced instruments are (i) bona fide and not unconscionable 
49.5 	as contemplated by subsection (a), item (iii); and (ii) disclosed to the purchaser of the unit 
49.6 	in the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102:
49.7 	(1) a lease the termination of which would terminate the common interest 
49.8 	community;
49.9 	(2) in the case of a cooperative, a mortgage or contract for deed encumbering 
49.10 	real estate owned by the association, except that if the mortgage or contract for deed 
49.11 	contains a contractual obligation involving a type of contract, lease, or license which 
49.12 	may be terminated pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), then that contractual obligation may 
49.13 	be terminated pursuant to subsection (c);
49.14 	(3) an agreement between a declarant or an affiliate of a declarant, or a master 
49.15 	developer, and any governmental entity, if such agreement is necessary to obtain 
49.16 	governmental approvals, provide financing under any type of government program, or 
49.17 	provide for governmentally required access, conservation, drainage, utilities, or other 
49.18 	public purpose;
49.19 	(4) subject to the requirements of section 515B.4-110(a), a lease, easement, 
49.20 	covenant, condition, or restriction that is recorded before the recording of the declaration, 
49.21 	to the extent that it benefits a person other than a declarant or an affiliate of a declarant; or
49.22 	(5) a license granted by a declarant pursuant to section 515B.2-109(e).
49.23 	(e) This section applies only to common interest communities created on or after 
49.24 	August 1, 2010.

49.25 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

49.26 	Sec. 14. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-114, is amended to read:
49.27 	515B.3-114 REPLACEMENT RESERVES; SURPLUS FUNDS.
49.28 	(a) The association shall include in its annual budgets replacement reserves projected 
49.29 	by the board to be adequate, together with past and future contributions to replacement 
49.30 	reserves to fund the replacement of those components of the common interest community 
49.31 	which the association is obligated to replace by reason of ordinary wear and tear or 
49.32 	obsolescence, subject to the following:
49.33 	(1) The amount annually budgeted for replacement reserves shall be adequate, 
49.34 	together with past and future contributions to replacement reserves, to replace the 
50.1 	components as determined based upon the estimated remaining useful life of each 
50.2 	component, provided that portions of replacement reserves need not be segregated for 
50.3 	the replacement of specific components.
50.4 	(2) Unless otherwise required by the declaration, annual budgets need not include 
50.5 	reserves for the replacement of (i) components that have a remaining useful life of more 
50.6 	than 30 years, or (ii) components whose replacement will be funded by assessments 
50.7 	authorized under section 515B.3-115(e)(1), or approved in compliance with clause (5).
50.8 	(3) The association shall keep the replacement reserves in an account or accounts 
50.9 	separate from the association's operating funds, and shall not use or borrow from the 
50.10 	replacement reserves to fund the association's operating expenses, provided that this 
50.11 	restriction shall not affect the association's authority to pledge the replacement reserves 
50.12 	as security for a loan to the association.
50.13 	(4) The association shall reevaluate the adequacy of its budgeted replacement 
50.14 	reserves at least every third year after the recording of the declaration creating the 
50.15 	common interest community.
50.16 	(5) Unless otherwise required by the declaration, after the termination of the period 
50.17 	of declarant control, and subject to approval (i) by the board and (ii) by unit owners, 
50.18 	other than declarant or its affiliates, of units to which 51 percent of the votes in the 
50.19 	association are allocated, the association need not annually assess for replacement reserves 
50.20 	to replace those components whose replacement is planned to be paid for by special 
50.21 	assessments levied under section 515B.3-115(c), or by assessments levied under section 
50.22 	515B.3-115(e)(2). The approval provided for in the preceding sentence shall be effective 
50.23 	for no more than the association's current and three following fiscal years, subject to 
50.24 	modification or renewal by the same approval standards.
50.25 	(6) Unless otherwise required by the declaration, subsection (a) shall not apply to a 
50.26 	common interest community which is restricted to nonresidential use.
50.27 	(b) Unless the declaration provides otherwise, any surplus funds that the association 
50.28 	has remaining after payment of or provision for common expenses and reserves shall be 
50.29 	(i) credited to the unit owners to reduce their future common expense assessments or (ii) 
50.30 	credited to reserves, or any combination thereof, as determined by the board of directors.
50.31 	(a) The annual budgets of the association shall provide from year to year, on a 
50.32 	cumulative basis, for adequate reserve funds to cover the replacement of those parts of 
50.33 	the common interest community which the association is obligated to replace. These 
50.34 	reserve requirements shall not apply to a common interest community which is restricted 
50.35 	to nonresidential use.
51.1 	(b) Unless the declaration provides otherwise, any surplus funds that the association 
51.2 	has remaining after payment of or provision for common expenses and reserves shall be 
51.3 	(i) credited to the unit owners to reduce their future common expense assessments or (ii) 
51.4 	credited to reserves, or any combination thereof, as determined by the board of directors.
51.5 	(c) This section applies to common interest communities only for their fiscal years 
51.6 	commencing before January 1, 2012.

51.7 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

51.8 	Sec. 15. [515B.3-1141] REPLACEMENT RESERVES.
51.9 	(a) The association shall include in its annual budgets replacement reserves projected 
51.10 	by the board to be adequate, together with past and future contributions to replacement 
51.11 	reserves, to fund the replacement of those components of the common interest community 
51.12 	which the association is obligated to replace by reason of ordinary wear and tear or 
51.13 	obsolescence, subject to the following:
51.14 	(1) The amount annually budgeted for replacement reserves shall be adequate, 
51.15 	together with past and future contributions to replacement reserves, to replace the 
51.16 	components as determined based upon the estimated remaining useful life of each 
51.17 	component; provided that portions of replacement reserves need not be segregated for 
51.18 	the replacement of specific components.
51.19 	(2) Unless otherwise required by the declaration, annual budgets need not include 
51.20 	reserves for the replacement of (i) components that a remaining useful life of more than 30 
51.21 	years, or (ii) components whose replacement will be funded by assessments authorized 
51.22 	under section 515B.3-1151(e)(1), or approved in compliance with clause (5).
51.23 	(3) The association shall keep the replacement reserves in an account or accounts 
51.24 	separate from the association's operating funds, and shall not use or borrow from the 
51.25 	replacement reserves to fund the association's operating expenses, provided that this 
51.26 	restriction shall not affect the association's authority to pledge the replacement reserves 
51.27 	as security for a loan to the association.
51.28 	(4) The association shall reevaluate the adequacy of its budgeted replacement 
51.29 	reserves at least every third year after the recording of the declaration creating the 
51.30 	common interest community.
51.31 	(5) Unless otherwise required by the declaration, after the termination of the period 
51.32 	of declarant control, and subject to approval by (i) the board, and (ii) unit owners, 
51.33 	other than the declarant or its affiliates, of units to which 51 percent of the votes in the 
51.34 	association are allocated, the association need not annually assess for replacement reserves 
51.35 	to replace those components whose replacement is planned to be paid for by special 
52.1 	assessments, if the declaration authorizes special assessments, or by assessments levied 
52.2 	under section 515B.3-1151(e)(2). The approval provided for in the preceding sentence 
52.3 	shall be effective for no more than the association's current and three following fiscal 
52.4 	years, subject to modification or renewal by the same approval standards.
52.5 	(6) Unless otherwise required by the declaration, subsection (a) shall not apply to a 
52.6 	common interest community which is restricted to nonresidential use.
52.7 	(b) Unless the declaration provides otherwise, any surplus funds that the association 
52.8 	has remaining after payment of or provision for common expenses and reserves shall be 
52.9 	(i) credited to the unit owners to reduce their future common expense assessments or (ii) 
52.10 	credited to reserves, or any combination thereof, as determined by the board of directors.
52.11 	(c) This section applies to common interest communities only for their fiscal years 
52.12 	commencing on or after January 1, 2012.

52.13 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

52.14 	Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.3-115, is amended to read:
52.15 	515B.3-115 ASSESSMENTS FOR COMMON EXPENSES.
52.16 	(a) The association shall approve an annual budget of common expenses at or prior 
52.17 	to the conveyance of the first unit in the common interest community to a purchaser and 
52.18 	annually thereafter. The annual budget shall include all customary and necessary operating 
52.19 	expenses and replacement reserves for the common interest community, consistent 
52.20 	with this section and section 515B.3-114. For purposes of replacement reserves under 
52.21 	subsection (b), until an annual budget has been approved, the reserves shall be paid based 
52.22 	upon the budget contained in the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102. 
52.23 	The obligation of a unit owner to pay common expensesexpense assessments shall be 
52.24 	as follows:
52.25 	(1) If a common expense assessment has not been levied by the association, the 
52.26 	declarant shall pay all commonoperating expenses of the common interest community, 
52.27 	including the payment ofand shall fund the replacement reserve component of the 
52.28 	common expenses for all units in compliance withas required by subsection (b).
52.29 	(2) If a common expense assessment has been levied by the association, all unit 
52.30 	owners, including the declarant, shall pay the assessments levied againstallocated to their 
52.31 	units, except as follows subject to the following:
52.32 	(i) If the declaration may provide for an alternate common expense plan whereby 
52.33 	the declarant's common expense liability, and the corresponding assessment lien against 
52.34 	the units owned by the declarant, is limited to: (A) paying when due, in compliance 
53.1 	with subsection (b), an amount equal to the full share of replacement reserves allocated 
53.2 	to units owned by the declarant, as set forth in the association's annual budget approved 
53.3 	as provided in this subsection, and (B) paying when due all accrued expenses of the 
53.4 	common interest community in excess of the aggregate assessments payable with respect 
53.5 	to units owned by persons other than a declarant, provided that the alternate common 
53.6 	expense plan shall not affect a declarant's obligation to make up any operating deficit 
53.7 	pursuant to item (iv), and shall terminate upon the termination of any period of declarant 
53.8 	control unless terminated earlier pursuant to item (iii) so provides, a declarant's liability, 
53.9 	and the assessment lien, for the common expense assessments, exclusive of replacement 
53.10 	reserves, on any unit owned by the declarant may be limited to 25 percent or more of any 
53.11 	assessment, exclusive of replacement reserves, until the unit or any building located in the 
53.12 	unit is substantially completed. Substantial completion shall be evidenced by a certificate 
53.13 	of occupancy in any jurisdiction that issues the certificate.
53.14 	(ii) If the alternate common expense plan may be authorized only by including in 
53.15 	the declaration and the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102 provisions 
53.16 	authorizing and disclosing the alternate common expense plan as described in item (i), 
53.17 	and including in the disclosure statement either (A) a statement that the alternate common 
53.18 	expense plan will have no effect on the level of services or amenities anticipated by the 
53.19 	association's budget contained in the disclosure statement, or (B) a statement describing 
53.20 	how the services or amenities may be affected declaration provides for a reduced 
53.21 	assessment pursuant to paragraph (2)(i), the declarant shall be obligated, within 60 days 
53.22 	following the termination of the period of declarant control, to make up any operating 
53.23 	deficit incurred by the association during the period of declarant control. The existence 
53.24 	and amount, if any, of the operating deficit shall be determined using the accrual basis 
53.25 	of accounting applied as of the date of termination of the period of declarant control, 
53.26 	regardless of the accounting methodology previously used by the association to maintain 
53.27 	its accounts.
53.28 	(iii) A declarant shall give notice to the association of its intent to utilize the alternate 
53.29 	common expense plan and a commencement date after the date the notice is given. The 
53.30 	alternate common expense plan shall be valid only for periods after the notice is given. A 
53.31 	declarant may terminate its right to utilize the alternate common expense plan prior to the 
53.32 	termination of the period of declarant control only by giving notice to the association and 
53.33 	the unit owners at least 30 days prior to a selected termination date set forth in the notice.
53.34 	(iv) If a declarant utilizes an alternate common expense plan, that declarant shall 
53.35 	cause to be prepared and delivered to the association, at the declarant's expense, within 
53.36 	90 days after the termination of the period of declarant control, an audited balance sheet 
54.1 	and profit and loss statement certified to the association and prepared by an accountant 
54.2 	having the qualifications set forth in section 515B.3-121(b). The audit shall be binding on 
54.3 	the declarant and the association.
54.4 	(v) If the audited profit and loss statement shows an accumulated operating deficit, 
54.5 	the declarant shall be obligated to make up the deficit within 15 days after delivery of the 
54.6 	audit to the association, and the association shall have a claim against the declarant for 
54.7 	an amount equal to the deficit until paid. A declarant who does not utilize an alternate 
54.8 	common expense plan is not liable to make up any operating deficit. If more than one 
54.9 	declarant utilizes an alternate common expense plan, all declarants who utilize the plan 
54.10 	are jointly and severally liable to the association for any operating deficit.
54.11 	(vi) The existence and amount, if any, of the operating deficit shall be determined 
54.12 	using the accrual method of accounting applied as of the date of termination of the period 
54.13 	of declarant control, regardless of the accounting methodology previously used by the 
54.14 	association to maintain its accounts.
54.15 	(vii) Unless approved by a vote of the unit owners other than the declarant and 
54.16 	its affiliates, the operating deficit shall not be made up, prior to the election by the unit 
54.17 	owners of a board of directors pursuant to section 515B.3-103(d), through the use of a 
54.18 	special assessment described in subsection (c) or by assessments described in subsections 
54.19 	(e), (f), and (g).
54.20 	(viii) The use by a declarant of an alternate common expense plan shall not affect the 
54.21 	obligations of the declarant or the association as provided in the declaration, the bylaws or 
54.22 	this chapter, or as represented in the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102, 
54.23 	except as to matters authorized by this chapter.
54.24 	(b) The replacement reserves required by section 515B.3-114reserve component 
54.25 	of the common expenses shall be paid to the association by each unit ownerfunded for 
54.26 	each unit owned by that unit owner in accordance with the association'sprojected annual 
54.27 	budget approved pursuant to subsection (a), regardless of whether an annual assessment 
54.28 	has been levied or whether the declarant has utilized an alternate common expense 
54.29 	plan under subsection (a)(2). Replacement reserves shall be paid with respect to a unit 
54.30 	commencing as of the later of (1) the date of creation of the common interest community 
54.31 	or (2) the date thatrequired by section 515B.4-102(a)(23) provided that the funding of 
54.32 	replacement reserves with respect to a unit shall commence no later than the date that the 
54.33 	structure and exterior of the building containing the unit, or the structure and exterior of
54.34 	unit or any building located within the unit boundaries, but excluding the interior finishing 
54.35 	of the structure itself, areis substantially completed. If the association has not approved 
54.36 	an annual budget as of the commencement date for the payment of replacement reserves, 
55.1 	then the reserves shall be paid based upon the budget contained in the disclosure statement 
55.2 	required by section 515B.4-102 Substantial completion shall be evidenced by a certificate 
55.3 	of occupancy in any jurisdiction that issues the certificate.
55.4 	(c) After an assessment has been levied by the association, assessments shall be 
55.5 	levied at least annually, based upon an annuala budget approved at least annually by the 
55.6 	association. In addition to and not in lieu of annual assessments, an association may, if 
55.7 	so provided in the declaration, levy special assessments against all units in the common 
55.8 	interest community based upon the same formula required by the declaration for levying 
55.9 	annual assessments. Special assessments may be levied only (1) to cover expenditures 
55.10 	of an emergency nature, (2) to replenish underfunded replacement reserves, (3) to 
55.11 	cover unbudgeted capital expenditures or operating expenses, or (4) to replace certain 
55.12 	components of the common interest community described in section 515B.3-114(a), 
55.13 	if such alternative method of funding is approved under section 515B.3-114(a)(5). 
55.14 	The association may also levy assessments against fewer than all units as provided in 
55.15 	subsections (e), (f), and (g), subject to the requirements of section 515B.3-114(a)(5), with 
55.16 	respect to assessments under section 515B.3-115(e)(2).
55.17 	(d) Except as modified by subsections (a)(1) and (2), (e), (f), and (g), all common 
55.18 	expenses shall be assessed against all the units in accordance with the allocations 
55.19 	established by the declaration pursuant to section 515B.2-108.
55.20 	(e) Unless otherwise required by the declaration:
55.21 	(1) any common expense associated with the maintenance, repair, or replacement 
55.22 	of a limited common element shall be assessed against the units to which that limited 
55.23 	common element is assigned, equally, or in any other proportion the declaration provides;
55.24 	(2) any common expense or portion thereof benefiting fewer than all of the units 
55.25 	may be assessed exclusively against the units benefited, equally, or in any other proportion 
55.26 	the declaration provides;
55.27 	(3) the costs of insurance may be assessed in proportion to risk or coverage, and the 
55.28 	costs of utilities may be assessed in proportion to usage;
55.29 	(4) reasonable attorneys fees and costs incurred by the association in connection 
55.30 	with (i) the collection of assessments and, (ii) the enforcement of this chapter, the articles, 
55.31 	bylaws, declaration, or rules and regulations, against a unit owner, may be assessed 
55.32 	against the unit owner's unit; and
55.33 	(5) fees, charges, late charges, fines and interest may be assessed as provided 
55.34 	in section 515B.3-116(a).
56.1 	(f) Assessments levied under section 515B.3-116 to pay a judgment against the 
56.2 	association may be levied only against the units in the common interest community at the 
56.3 	time the judgment was entered, in proportion to their common expense liabilities.
56.4 	(g) If any damage to the common elements or another unit is caused by the act or 
56.5 	omission of any unit owner, or occupant of a unit, or their invitees, the association may 
56.6 	assess the costs of repairing the damage exclusively against the unit owner's unit to the 
56.7 	extent not covered by insurance.
56.8 	(h) Subject to any shorter period specified by the declaration or bylaws, if any 
56.9 	installment of an assessment becomes more than 60 days past due, then the association 
56.10 	may, upon ten days' written notice to the unit owner, declare the entire amount of the 
56.11 	assessment immediately due and payable in full.
56.12 	(i) If common expense liabilities are reallocated for any purpose authorized by this 
56.13 	chapter, common expense assessments and any installment thereof not yet due shall be 
56.14 	recalculated in accordance with the reallocated common expense liabilities.
56.15 	(j) An assessment against fewer than all of the units must be levied within three years 
56.16 	after the event or circumstances forming the basis for the assessment, or shall be barred.
56.17 	(k) This section applies only to common interest communities created before August 
56.18 	1, 2010.

56.19 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

56.20 	Sec. 17. [515B.3-1151] ASSESSMENTS FOR COMMON EXPENSES.
56.21 	(a) The association shall approve an annual budget of common expenses at or prior 
56.22 	to the conveyance of the first unit in the common interest community to a purchaser and 
56.23 	annually thereafter. The annual budget shall include all customary and necessary operating 
56.24 	expenses and replacement reserves for the common interest community, consistent 
56.25 	with this section and section 515B.3-114. For purposes of replacement reserves under 
56.26 	subsection (b), until an annual budget has been approved, the reserves shall be paid based 
56.27 	upon the budget contained in the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102. 
56.28 	The obligation of a unit owner to pay common expenses shall be as follows:
56.29 	(1) If a common expense assessment has not been levied by the association, the 
56.30 	declarant shall pay all common expenses of the common interest community, including 
56.31 	the payment of the replacement reserve component of the common expenses for all units 
56.32 	in compliance with subsection (b).
56.33 	(2) If a common expense assessment has been levied by the association, all unit 
56.34 	owners, including the declarant, shall pay the assessments levied against their units, 
56.35 	except as follows:
57.1 	(i) The declaration may provide for an alternate common expense plan whereby the 
57.2 	declarant's common expense liability, and the corresponding assessment lien against the 
57.3 	units owned by the declarant, is limited to: (A) paying when due, in compliance with 
57.4 	subsection (b), an amount equal to the full share of the replacement reserves allocated to 
57.5 	units owned by the declarant, as set forth in the association's annual budget approved as 
57.6 	provided in this subsection; and (B) paying when due all accrued expenses of the common 
57.7 	interest community in excess of the aggregate assessments payable with respect to units 
57.8 	owned by persons other than a declarant; provided, that the alternate common expense 
57.9 	plan shall not affect a declarant's obligation to make up any operating deficit pursuant to 
57.10 	item (iv), and shall terminate upon the termination of any period of declarant control 
57.11 	unless terminated earlier pursuant to item (iii).
57.12 	(ii) The alternate common expense plan may be authorized only by including in 
57.13 	the declaration and the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102 provisions 
57.14 	authorizing and disclosing the alternate common expense plan as described in item (i), 
57.15 	and including in the disclosure statement either (A) a statement that the alternate common 
57.16 	expense plan will have no effect on the level of services or amenities anticipated by the 
57.17 	association's budget contained in the disclosure statement, or (B) a statement describing 
57.18 	how the services or amenities may be affected.
57.19 	(iii) A declarant shall give notice to the association of its intent to utilize the alternate 
57.20 	common expense plan and a commencement date after the date the notice is given. The 
57.21 	alternate common expense plan shall be valid only for periods after the notice is given. A 
57.22 	declarant may terminate its right to utilize the alternative common expense plan prior to the 
57.23 	termination of the period of declarant control only by giving notice to the association and 
57.24 	the unit owners at least 30 days prior to a selected termination date set forth in the notice.
57.25 	(iv) If a declarant utilizes an alternate common expense plan, that declarant shall 
57.26 	cause to be prepared and delivered to the association, at the declarant's expense, within 
57.27 	90 days after the termination of the period of declarant control, an audited balance sheet 
57.28 	and profit and loss statement certified to the association and prepared by an accountant 
57.29 	having the qualifications set forth in section 515B.3-121(b). The audit shall be binding on 
57.30 	the declarant and the association.
57.31 	(v) If the audited profit and loss statement shows an accumulated operating deficit, 
57.32 	the declarant shall be obligated to make up the deficit within 15 days after delivery of the 
57.33 	audit to the association, and the association shall have a claim against the declarant for 
57.34 	an amount equal to the deficit until paid. A declarant who does not utilize an alternate 
57.35 	common expense plan is not liable to make up any operating deficit. If more than one 
58.1 	declarant utilizes an alternate common expense plan, all declarants who utilize the plan 
58.2 	are jointly and severally liable to the association for any operating deficit.
58.3 	(vi) The existence and amount, if any, of the operating deficit shall be determined 
58.4 	using the accrual method of accounting applied as of the date of termination of the period 
58.5 	of declarant control, regardless of the accounting methodology previously used by the 
58.6 	association to maintain its accounts.
58.7 	(vii) Unless approved by a vote of the unit owners other than the declarant and 
58.8 	its affiliates, the operating deficit shall not be made up, prior to the election by the unit 
58.9 	owners of a board of directors pursuant to section 515B.3-103(d), through the use of a 
58.10 	special assessment described in subsection (c) or by assessments described in subsections 
58.11 	(e), (f), and (g).
58.12 	(viii) The use by a declarant of an alternate common expense plan shall not affect 
58.13 	the obligations of the declarant or the association as provided in the declaration, the 
58.14 	bylaws, or this chapter, or as represented in the disclosure statement required by section 
58.15 	515B.4-102, except as to matters authorized by this chapter.
58.16 	(b) The replacement reserves required by section 515B.3-114 shall be paid to the 
58.17 	association by each unit owner for each unit owned by that unit owner in accordance with 
58.18 	the association's annual budget approved pursuant to subsection (a), regardless of whether 
58.19 	an annual assessment has been levied or whether the declarant has utilized an alternate 
58.20 	common expense plan under subsection (a)(2). Replacement reserves shall be paid with 
58.21 	respect to a unit commencing as of the later of (1) the date of creation of the common 
58.22 	interest community or (2) the date that the structure and exterior of the building containing 
58.23 	the unit, or the structure and exterior of any building located within the unit boundaries, 
58.24 	but excluding the interior finishing of the structure itself, are substantially completed. If 
58.25 	the association has not approved an annual budget as of the commencement date for the 
58.26 	payment of replacement reserves, then the reserves shall be paid based upon the budget 
58.27 	contained in the disclosure statement required by section 515B.4-102.
58.28 	(c) After an assessment has been levied by the association, assessments shall be 
58.29 	levied at least annually, based upon an annual budget approved by the association. In 
58.30 	addition to and not in lieu of annual assessments, an association may, if so provided in the 
58.31 	declaration, levy special assessments against all units in the common interest community 
58.32 	based upon the same formula required by the declaration for levying annual assessments. 
58.33 	Special assessments may be levied only (1) to cover expenditures of an emergency 
58.34 	nature, (2) to replenish underfunded replacement reserves, (3) to cover unbudgeted capital 
58.35 	expenditures or operating expenses, or (4) to replace certain components of the common 
58.36 	interest community described in section 515B.3-114(a), if such alternative method of 
59.1 	funding is approved under section 515B.3-114(a)(5). The association may also levy 
59.2 	assessments against fewer than all units as provided in subsections (e), (f), and (g). An 
59.3 	assessment under section 515B.3-1151(e)(2) for replacement reserves is subject to the 
59.4 	requirements of section 515B.3-1141(a)(5).
59.5 	(d) Except as modified by subsections (a), clauses (1) and (2), (e), (f), and (g), all 
59.6 	common expenses shall be assessed against all the units in accordance with the allocations 
59.7 	established by the declaration pursuant to section 515B.2-108.
59.8 	(e) Unless otherwise required by the declaration:
59.9 	(1) any common expense associated with the maintenance, repair, or replacement 
59.10 	of a limited common element shall be assessed against the units to which that limited 
59.11 	common element is assigned, equally, or in any other proportion the declaration provides;
59.12 	(2) any common expense or portion thereof benefiting fewer than all of the units 
59.13 	may be assessed exclusively against the units benefited, equally, or in any other proportion 
59.14 	the declaration provides;
59.15 	(3) the costs of insurance may be assessed in proportion to risk or coverage, and the 
59.16 	costs of utilities may be assessed in proportion to usage; 
59.17 	(4) reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred by the association in connection with 
59.18 	(i) the collection of assessments, and (ii) the enforcement of this chapter, the articles, 
59.19 	bylaws, declaration, or rules and regulations, against a unit owner, may be assessed 
59.20 	against the unit owner's unit; and
59.21 	(5) fees, charges, late charges, fines, and interest may be assessed as provided in 
59.22 	section 515B.3-116(a).
59.23 	(f) Assessments levied under section 515B.3-116 to pay a judgment against the 
59.24 	association may be levied only against the units in the common interest community at the 
59.25 	time the judgment was entered, in proportion to their common expense liabilities.
59.26 	(g) If any damage to the common elements or another unit is caused by the act or 
59.27 	omission of any unit owner, or occupant of a unit, or their invitees, the association may 
59.28 	assess the costs of repairing the damage exclusively against the unit owner's unit to the 
59.29 	extent not covered by insurance.
59.30 	(h) Subject to any shorter period specified by the declaration or bylaws, if any 
59.31 	installment of an assessment becomes more than 60 days past due, then the association 
59.32 	may, upon ten days' written notice to the unit owner, declare the entire amount of the 
59.33 	assessment immediately due and payable in full.
59.34 	(i) If common expense liabilities are reallocated for any purpose authorized by this 
59.35 	chapter, common expense assessments and any installment thereof not yet due shall be 
59.36 	recalculated in accordance with the reallocated common expense liabilities.
60.1 	(j) An assessment against fewer than all of the units must be levied within three years 
60.2 	after the event or circumstances forming the basis for the assessment, or shall be barred.
60.3 	(k) This section applies only to common interest communities created on or after 
60.4 	August 1, 2010.

60.5 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

60.6 	Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.4-102, is amended to read:
60.7 	515B.4-102 DISCLOSURE STATEMENT; GENERAL PROVISIONS.
60.8 	(a) A disclosure statement shall fully and accurately disclose:
60.9 	(1) the name and, if available, the number of the common interest community;
60.10 	(2) the name and principal address of each the declarant holding any special declarant 
60.11 	rights; a description of the special declarant rights held by each declarant; a description 
60.12 	of the units or additional real estate to which the respective special declarant rights 
60.13 	apply; and a copy of any recorded transfer of special declarant rights pursuant to section 
60.14 	515B.3-104(a), or any instrument recorded pursuant to section 515B.3-104(b), (g), or (h);
60.15 	(3) the total number of units which all declarants have the declarant has the right 
60.16 	to include in the common interest community and a statement that the common interest 
60.17 	community is either a condominium, cooperative, or planned community;
60.18 	(4) a general description of the common interest community, including, at a 
60.19 	minimum, (i) the number of buildings, (ii) the number of dwellings per building, (iii) 
60.20 	the type of construction, (iv) whether the common interest community involves new 
60.21 	construction or rehabilitation, (v) whether any building was wholly or partially occupied, 
60.22 	for any purpose, before it was added to the common interest community and the nature 
60.23 	of the occupancy, and (vi) a general description of any roads, trails, or utilities that are 
60.24 	located on the common elements and that the association or a master association will be 
60.25 	required to maintain, and (vii) a description of any declarant licensing rights under section 
60.26 	515B.2-109(e);
60.27 	(5) declarant's schedule of commencement and completion of construction of any 
60.28 	buildings and other improvements that the declarant is obligated to build pursuant to 
60.29 	section 515B.4-117;
60.30 	(6) any expenses or services, not reflected in the budget, that a declarant pays 
60.31 	or provides, which may become a common expense; the projected common expense 
60.32 	attributable to each of those expenses or services; a description and an explanation of 
60.33 	any alternate common expense plan declarant's limited assessment liability under section 
60.34 	515B.3-115(a)(2)(i) 515B.3-115(b); and, if the declaration provides for an alternate 
61.1 	common expense plan, either (i) a statement that the alternate common expense plan will 
61.2 	have no effect on the level of services or amenities anticipated by the association's budget 
61.3 	or disclosed in the disclosure statement, or (ii) a statement describing how the services or 
61.4 	amenities may be affected;
61.5 	(7) any initial or special fee due from the purchaser to the declarant or the association 
61.6 	at closing, together with a description of the purpose and method of calculating the fee;
61.7 	(8) identification of any liens, defects, or encumbrances which will continue to affect 
61.8 	the title to a unit or to any real property owned by the association after the contemplated 
61.9 	conveyance;
61.10 	(9) a description of any financing offered or arranged by the declarant;
61.11 	(10) a statement as to whether application has been made for any project approvals 
61.12 	for the common interest community from the Federal National Mortgage Association 
61.13 	(FNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), Department of Housing 
61.14 	and Urban Development (HUD) or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and which, if 
61.15 	any, such final approvals have been received;
61.16 	(11) the terms of any warranties provided by the declarant, including copies of 
61.17 	sections 515B.4-112 through 515B.4-115, and any other applicable statutory warranties, 
61.18 	and a statement of any limitations on the enforcement of the applicable warranties or on 
61.19 	damages;
61.20 	(12) a statement that: (i) within ten days after the receipt of a disclosure statement, a 
61.21 	purchaser may cancel any contract for the purchase of a unit from a declarant; provided, 
61.22 	that the right to cancel terminates upon the purchaser's voluntary acceptance of a 
61.23 	conveyance of the unit from the declarant or by the purchaser agreeing to modify or waive 
61.24 	the right to cancel in the manner provided by section 515B.4-106(a); (ii) if a purchaser 
61.25 	receives a disclosure statement more than ten days before signing a purchase agreement, 
61.26 	the purchaser cannot cancel the purchase agreement; and (iii) if a declarant obligated to 
61.27 	deliver a disclosure statement fails to deliver a disclosure statement which substantially 
61.28 	complies with this chapter to a purchaser to whom a unit is conveyed, the declarant shall 
61.29 	be liable to the purchaser as provided in section 515B.4-106(d);
61.30 	(13) a statement disclosing to the extent of the declarant's or an affiliate of a 
61.31 	declarant's actual knowledge, after reasonable inquiry, any unsatisfied judgments or 
61.32 	lawsuits to which the association is a party, and the status of those lawsuits which are 
61.33 	material to the common interest community or the unit being purchased;
61.34 	(14) a statement (i) describing the conditions under which earnest money will be 
61.35 	held in and disbursed from the escrow account, as set forth in section 515B.4-109, (ii) 
61.36 	that the earnest money will be returned to the purchaser if the purchaser cancels the 
62.1 	contract pursuant to section 515B.4-106, and (iii) setting forth the name and address 
62.2 	of the escrow agent;
62.3 	(15) a detailed description of the insurance coverage provided by the association for 
62.4 	the benefit of unit owners, including a statement as to which, if any, of the items referred 
62.5 	to in section 515B.3-113, subsection (b), are insured by the association;
62.6 	(16) any current or expected fees or charges, other than assessments for common 
62.7 	expenses, to be paid by unit owners for the use of the common elements or any other 
62.8 	improvements or facilities;
62.9 	(17) the financial arrangements, including any contingencies, which have been made 
62.10 	to provide for completion of all improvements that the declarant is obligated to build 
62.11 	pursuant to section 515B.4-118, or a statement that no such arrangements have been made;
62.12 	(18) in a cooperative: (i) whether the unit owners will be entitled for federal and 
62.13 	state tax purposes, to deduct payments made by the association for real estate taxes 
62.14 	and interest paid to the holder of a security interest encumbering the cooperative; (ii) a 
62.15 	statement as to the effect on the unit owners if the association fails to pay real estate taxes 
62.16 	or payments due the holder of a security interest encumbering the cooperative; and (iii) the 
62.17 	principal amount and a general description of the terms of any blanket mortgage, contract 
62.18 	for deed, or other blanket security instrument encumbering the cooperative property;
62.19 	(19) a statement: (i) that real estate taxes for the unit or any real property owned by 
62.20 	the association are not delinquent or, if there are delinquent real estate taxes, describing 
62.21 	the property for which the taxes are delinquent, stating the amount of the delinquent 
62.22 	taxes, interest and penalties, and stating the years for which taxes are delinquent, and 
62.23 	(ii) setting forth the amount of real estate taxes, including the amount of any special 
62.24 	assessment certified for payment with the real estate taxes, due and payable with respect to 
62.25 	the unit in the year in which the disclosure statement is given, if real estate taxes have 
62.26 	been separately assessed against the unit;
62.27 	(20) if the unit or other parcel of real estate being purchased is or may association 
62.28 	or the purchaser of the unit will be subject to a member of a master declaration at the 
62.29 	time of the conveyance from the declarant to the purchaser association, a statement to 
62.30 	that effect, and all of the following information with respect to the master association: 
62.31 	(i) copies of the following documents (which may be in proposed form if the master 
62.32 	declaration has not been recorded): a copy of the master declaration, the articles of 
62.33 	incorporation, bylaws, and rules and regulations for the master association, together with 
62.34 	any amendments thereto; (ii) the name and address of the master developer, and the 
62.35 	name, address and general description of the master association, including a general 
62.36 	description of any other association, unit owners, or other persons which are or may 
63.1 	become members; (iii) a description of any nonresidential use permitted on any property 
63.2 	subject to the master declaration association; (iv) a statement as to the estimated maximum 
63.3 	number of associations, unit owners or other persons which may become members of 
63.4 	the master association, and a description of any the degree and period of control of 
63.5 	the master association and rights to appoint master association directors by a master 
63.6 	developer declarant or other person pursuant to section 515B.2-121(c); (v) a description 
63.7 	of any facilities intended for the benefit of the members of the master association and 
63.8 	not located on property owned or controlled by a member or the master association; 
63.9 	(vi) the financial arrangements, including any contingencies, which have been made to 
63.10 	provide for completion of the facilities referred to in subsection (v), or a statement that no 
63.11 	arrangements have been made; (vii) any current balance sheet of the master association 
63.12 	and a projected or current annual budget, as applicable, which budget shall include with 
63.13 	respect to the master association those items in paragraph (23), clauses (i) through (iii), 
63.14 	and the projected monthly or other periodic common expense assessment payment for 
63.15 	each type of unit, lot, or other parcel of real estate which is or is planned to be subject to 
63.16 	assessment; (viii) a description of any expenses or services not reflected in the budget, paid 
63.17 	for or provided by a master developer declarant or other a person executing the master 
63.18 	declaration, which may become an expense of the master association in the future; (ix) a 
63.19 	description of any powers delegated to and accepted by the master association pursuant 
63.20 	to section 515B.2-121(e)(2) 515B.2-121(f)(2); (x) identification of any liens, defects or 
63.21 	encumbrances that will continue to affect title to property owned or operated by the master 
63.22 	association for the benefit of its members; (xi) the terms of any warranties provided by 
63.23 	any person for construction of facilities in which the members of the master association 
63.24 	have or may have an interest, and any known defects in the facilities which would violate 
63.25 	the standards described in section 515B.4-113(b)(2) 515B.4-112(b); (xii) a statement 
63.26 	disclosing, after inquiry of the master association, any unsatisfied judgments or lawsuits to 
63.27 	which the master association is a party, and the status of those lawsuits which are material 
63.28 	to the master association; (xiii) a description of any insurance coverage provided for the 
63.29 	benefit of its members by the master association; and (xiv) any current or expected fees or 
63.30 	charges, other than assessments by the master association, to be paid by members of the 
63.31 	master association for the use of any facilities intended for the benefit of the members;
63.32 	(21) a statement as to whether the unit will be substantially completed at the time 
63.33 	of conveyance to a purchaser, and if not substantially completed, who is responsible to 
63.34 	complete and pay for the construction of the unit;
63.35 	(22) copies a copy of the following documents (which may be in proposed form if 
63.36 	the declaration has not been recorded): the declaration and any supplemental declaration,
64.1 	and any amendments thereto (exclusive of the CIC plat); any other recorded covenants, 
64.2 	conditions, restrictions, or reservations affecting the common interest community; the 
64.3 	articles of incorporation, bylaws and any rules or regulations of the association; the names 
64.4 	of the current members of the association's board of directors; any agreement excluding 
64.5 	or modifying any implied warranties; any agreement reducing the statute of limitations 
64.6 	for the enforcement of warranties; any contracts or leases to be signed by purchaser at 
64.7 	closing; and a brief narrative description of any (i) contracts or leases that are or may be 
64.8 	subject to cancellation by the association under section 515B.3-105 and (ii) any material 
64.9 	contracts, leases, or other agreements affecting entered into between the declarant and a 
64.10 	governmental entity that affect the common interest community; and
64.11 	(23) a balance sheet for the association, following the creation of the association,
64.12 	current within 90 days of the date of delivery of the disclosure statement; a projected 
64.13 	annual budget for the association; and a statement identifying the party responsible for the 
64.14 	preparation of the budget. The budget shall assume that all units intended to be included 
64.15 	in the common interest community, based upon the declarant's good faith estimate, have 
64.16 	been subjected to the declaration; provided, that additional budget portrayals based upon 
64.17 	a lesser number of units are permitted. The budget shall include, without limitation: 
64.18 	(i) a statement of the amount included in the budget as a reserve for replacement, the 
64.19 	components of the common interest community for which the reserves are budgeted, and 
64.20 	the amounts of the reserves, if any, that are allocated for the replacement of each of those 
64.21 	components; (ii) a statement of any other reserves; (iii) the projected common expense 
64.22 	for each category of expenditures for the association; (iv) the projected monthly common 
64.23 	expense assessment for each type of unit; and (v) a statement as to the components 
64.24 	of the common interest community whose replacement will be funded by assessments 
64.25 	under section 515B.3-115(c) or (e), rather than by replacement reserves as approved 
64.26 	pursuant to section 515B.3-114(a) a footnote or other reference to those components of 
64.27 	the common interest community the maintenance, repair, or replacement of which the 
64.28 	budget assumes will be funded by assessments under section 515B.3-115(e), rather than 
64.29 	by assessments included in the association's annual budget, and a statement referencing 
64.30 	section 515B.3-115(e)(1) or (2), as the source of funding. If, based upon the association's 
64.31 	then current budget, the monthly common expense assessment for the unit at the time of 
64.32 	conveyance to the purchaser is anticipated to exceed the monthly assessment stated in the 
64.33 	budget, a statement to such effect shall be included.
64.34 	(b) A declarant shall promptly amend the disclosure statement to reflect any material 
64.35 	change in the information required by this chapter.
65.1 	(c) The master association, within ten days after a request by a declarant, a holder 
65.2 	of declarant rights, or a buyer referred to in section 515B.4-101(e), or the authorized 
65.3 	representative of any of them, shall furnish the information required to be provided by 
65.4 	subsection (a)(20). A declarant or other person who provides information pursuant to 
65.5 	subsection (a)(20) is not liable to the buyer for any erroneous information if the declarant 
65.6 	or other person: (i) is not an affiliate of or related in any way to a person authorized to 
65.7 	appoint the master association board pursuant to section 515B.2-121(c)(3), and (ii) has no 
65.8 	actual knowledge that the information is incorrect.
65.9 	(d) This section applies only to common interest communities created before August 
65.10 	1, 2010.

65.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

65.12 	Sec. 19. [515B.4-1021] DISCLOSURE STATEMENT; GENERAL PROVISIONS.
65.13 	(a) A disclosure statement shall fully and accurately disclose:
65.14 	(1) the name and, if available, the number of the common interest community;
65.15 	(2) the name and principal address of each declarant holding any special declarant 
65.16 	rights; a description of the special declarant rights held by each declarant; a description 
65.17 	of the units or additional real estate to which the respective special declarant rights 
65.18 	apply; and a copy of any recorded transfer of special declarant rights pursuant to section 
65.19 	515B.3-104(a), or any instrument recorded pursuant to section 515B.3-104(b), (g), or (h);
65.20 	(3) the total number of units which all declarants have the right to include in the 
65.21 	common interest community and a statement that the common interest community is 
65.22 	either a condominium, cooperative, or planned community;
65.23 	(4) a general description of the common interest community, including, at a 
65.24 	minimum, (i) the number of buildings, (ii) the number of dwellings per building, (iii) 
65.25 	the type of construction, (iv) whether the common interest community involves new 
65.26 	construction or rehabilitation, (v) whether any building was wholly or partially occupied, 
65.27 	for any purpose, before it was added to the common interest community, and the nature 
65.28 	of the occupancy, (vi) a general description of any roads, trails, or utilities that are 
65.29 	located on the common elements and that the association or master association will be 
65.30 	required to maintain, and (vii) a description of any declarant licensing rights under section 
65.31 	515B.2-109(e);
65.32 	(5) declarant's schedule of commencement and completion of construction of any 
65.33 	buildings and other improvements that the declarant is obligated to build pursuant to 
65.34 	section 515B.4-117;
66.1 	(6) any expenses or services, not reflected in the budget, that the declarant pays 
66.2 	or provides, which may become a common expense; the projected common expense 
66.3 	attributable to each of those expenses or services; a description of any alternate common 
66.4 	expense plan under section 515B.3-115(a)(2)(i); and, if the declaration provides for 
66.5 	an alternate common expense plan, either (i) a statement that the alternate common 
66.6 	expense plan will have no effect on the level of services or amenities anticipated by the 
66.7 	association's budget or disclosed in the disclosure statement, or (ii) a statement describing 
66.8 	how the services or amenities may be affected;
66.9 	(7) any initial or special fee due from the purchaser to the declarant or the association 
66.10 	at closing, together with a description of the purpose and method of calculating the fee;
66.11 	(8) identification of any liens, defects, or encumbrances which will continue to affect 
66.12 	the title to a unit or to any real property owned by the association after the contemplated 
66.13 	conveyance;
66.14 	(9) a description of any financing offered or arranged by the declarant;
66.15 	(10) a statement as to whether application has been made for any project approvals 
66.16 	for the common interest community from the Federal National Mortgage Association 
66.17 	(FNMA), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), Department of Housing 
66.18 	and Urban Development (HUD), or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and which, if 
66.19 	any, such final approvals have been received;
66.20 	(11) the terms of any warranties provided by the declarant, including copies of 
66.21 	sections 515B.4-112 to 515B.4-115, and any other applicable statutory warranties, and 
66.22 	a statement of any limitations on the enforcement of the applicable warranties or on 
66.23 	damages;
66.24 	(12) a statement that:
66.25 	(i) within ten days after the receipt of a disclosure statement, a purchaser may cancel 
66.26 	any contract for the purchase of a unit from a declarant; provided, that the right to cancel 
66.27 	terminates upon the purchaser's voluntary acceptance of a conveyance of the unit from 
66.28 	the declarant or by the purchaser agreeing to modify or waive the right to cancel in the 
66.29 	manner provided by section 515B.4-106(a);
66.30 	(ii) if a purchaser receives a disclosure statement more than ten days before signing 
66.31 	a purchase agreement, the purchaser cannot cancel the purchase agreement; and
66.32 	(iii) if a declarant obligated to deliver a disclosure statement fails to deliver a 
66.33 	disclosure statement which substantially complies with this chapter to a purchaser to 
66.34 	whom a unit is conveyed, the declarant shall be liable to the purchaser as provided in 
66.35 	section 515B.4-106(d);
67.1 	(13) a statement disclosing to the extent of the declarant's or an affiliate of a 
67.2 	declarant's actual knowledge, after reasonable inquiry, any unsatisfied judgments or 
67.3 	lawsuits to which the association is a party, and the status of those lawsuits which are 
67.4 	material to the common interest community or the unit being purchased;
67.5 	(14) a statement (i) describing the conditions under which earnest money will be 
67.6 	held in and disbursed from the escrow account, as set forth in section 515B.4-109, (ii) 
67.7 	that the earnest money will be returned to the purchaser if the purchaser cancels the 
67.8 	contract pursuant to section 515B.4-106, and (iii) setting forth the name and address 
67.9 	of the escrow agent;
67.10 	(15) a detailed description of the insurance coverage provided by the association for 
67.11 	the benefit of unit owners, including a statement as to which, if any, of the items referred 
67.12 	to in section 515B.3-113(b), are insured by the association;
67.13 	(16) any current or expected fees or charges, other than assessments for common 
67.14 	expenses, to be paid by unit owners for the use of the common elements or any other 
67.15 	improvements or facilities;
67.16 	(17) the financial arrangements, including any contingencies, which have been made 
67.17 	to provide for completion of all improvements that the declarant is obligated to build 
67.18 	pursuant to section 515B.4-118, or a statement that no such arrangements have been made;
67.19 	(18) in a cooperative:
67.20 	(i) whether the unit owners will be entitled, for federal and state tax purposes, to 
67.21 	deduct payments made by the association for real estate taxes and interest paid to the 
67.22 	holder of a security interest encumbering the cooperative;
67.23 	(ii) a statement as to the effect on the unit owners if the association fails to pay real 
67.24 	estate taxes or payments due the holder of a security interest encumbering the cooperative; 
67.25 	and
67.26 	(iii) the principal amount and a general description of the terms of any blanket 
67.27 	mortgage, contract for deed, or other blanket security instrument encumbering the 
67.28 	cooperative property;
67.29 	(19) a statement:
67.30 	(i) that real estate taxes for the unit or any real property owned by the association 
67.31 	are not delinquent or, if there are delinquent real estate taxes, describing the property for 
67.32 	which the taxes are delinquent, stating the amount of the delinquent taxes, interest, and 
67.33 	penalties, and stating the years for which taxes are delinquent; and
67.34 	(ii) setting forth the amount of real estate taxes, including the amount of any special 
67.35 	assessment certified for payment with the real estate taxes, due and payable with respect to 
68.1 	the unit in the year in which the disclosure statement is given, if real estate taxes have 
68.2 	been separately assessed against the unit;
68.3 	(20) if the unit or other parcel of real estate being purchased is or may be subject to a 
68.4 	master declaration at the time of the conveyance from the declarant to the purchaser, a 
68.5 	statement to that effect, and all of the following information with respect to the master 
68.6 	association:
68.7 	(i) copies of the following documents (which may be in proposed form if the 
68.8 	master declaration has not been recorded): the master declaration, the articles of 
68.9 	incorporation, bylaws, and rules and regulations for the master association, together with 
68.10 	any amendments thereto;
68.11 	(ii) the name and address of the master developer, and the name, address, and 
68.12 	general description of the master association, including a general description of any other 
68.13 	association, unit owners, or other persons which are or may become members;
68.14 	(iii) a description of any nonresidential use permitted on any property subject to the 
68.15 	master declaration;
68.16 	(iv) a statement as to the estimated maximum number of associations, unit owners, 
68.17 	or other persons which may become members of the master association, and a description 
68.18 	of any period of control of the master association and rights to appoint master association 
68.19 	directors by a master developer or other person pursuant to section 515B.2-121(c);
68.20 	(v) a description of any facilities intended for the benefit of the members of the 
68.21 	master association and not located on property owned or controlled by a member of the 
68.22 	master association;
68.23 	(vi) the financial arrangements, including any contingencies, which have been made 
68.24 	to provide for completion of the facilities referred to in subsection (v), or a statement that 
68.25 	no arrangements have been made;
68.26 	(vii) any current balance sheet of the master association and a projected or current 
68.27 	annual budget, as applicable, which budget shall include with respect to the master 
68.28 	association those items in paragraph (23), clauses (i) through (iii), and the projected 
68.29 	monthly or other periodic common expense assessment payment for each type of unit, lot, 
68.30 	or other parcel of real estate which is or is planned to be subject to assessment;
68.31 	(viii) a description of any expenses or services not reflected in the budget, paid for or 
68.32 	provided by a master developer or another person executing the master declaration, which 
68.33 	may become an expense of the master association in the future;
68.34 	(ix) a description of any powers delegated to and accepted by the master association 
68.35 	pursuant to section 515B.2-121(e)(2);
69.1 	(x) identification of any liens, defects, or encumbrances that will continue to affect 
69.2 	title to property owned or operated by the master association for the benefit of its members;
69.3 	(xi) the terms of any warranties provided by any person for construction of facilities 
69.4 	in which the members of the master association have or may have an interest, and any 
69.5 	known defects in the facilities which would violate the standards described in section 
69.6 	515B.4-113(b)(2);
69.7 	(xii) a statement disclosing, after inquiry of the master association, any unsatisfied 
69.8 	judgments or lawsuits to which the master association is a party, and the status of those 
69.9 	lawsuits which are material to the master association;
69.10 	(xiii) a description of any insurance coverage provided for the benefit of its members 
69.11 	by the master association; and
69.12 	(xiv) any current or expected fees or charges, other than assessments by the master 
69.13 	association, to be paid by members of the master association for the use of any facilities 
69.14 	intended for the benefit of the members;
69.15 	(21) a statement as to whether the unit will be substantially completed at the time 
69.16 	of conveyance to a purchaser, and, if not substantially completed, who is responsible to 
69.17 	complete and pay for the construction of the unit;
69.18 	(22) copies of the following documents (which may be in proposed form if the 
69.19 	declaration has not been recorded): the declaration and any supplemental declaration, 
69.20 	and any amendments thereto (exclusive of the CIC plat); any other recorded covenants, 
69.21 	conditions, restrictions, and reservations affecting the common interest community; the 
69.22 	articles of incorporation, bylaws, and any rules or regulations of the association; the names 
69.23 	of the current members of the association's board of directors; any agreement excluding or 
69.24 	modifying any implied warranties; any agreement reducing the statute of limitations for 
69.25 	the enforcement of warranties; any contracts or leases to be signed by the purchaser at 
69.26 	closing; and a description of any material contracts, leases, or other agreements affecting 
69.27 	the common interest community; and
69.28 	(23) a balance sheet for the association, following the creation of the association, 
69.29 	current within 90 days; a projected annual budget for the association; and a statement 
69.30 	identifying the party responsible for the preparation of the budget. The budget shall 
69.31 	assume that all units intended to be included in the common interest community, based 
69.32 	upon the declarant's good faith estimate, have been subjected to the declaration; provided, 
69.33 	that additional budget portrayals based upon a lesser number of units are permitted. The 
69.34 	budget shall include, without limitation:
69.35 	(i) a statement of the amount included in the budget as a reserve for replacement, 
69.36 	the components of the common interest community for which the reserves are budgeted, 
70.1 	and the amounts of the reserves, if any, that are allocated for the replacement of each of 
70.2 	those components;
70.3 	(ii) a statement of any other reserves;
70.4 	(iii) the projected common expense for each category of expenditures for the 
70.5 	association;
70.6 	(iv) the projected monthly common expense assessment for each type of unit; and
70.7 	(v) a statement as to the components of the common interest community whose 
70.8 	replacement will be funded by assessments under section 515B.3-115(c) or (e), rather than 
70.9 	by replacement reserves as approved pursuant to section 515B.3-114(a). If, based upon the 
70.10 	association's then-current budget, the monthly common expense assessment for the unit at 
70.11 	the time of conveyance to the purchaser is anticipated to exceed the monthly assessment 
70.12 	stated in the budget, a statement to such effect shall be included.
70.13 	(b) A declarant shall promptly amend the disclosure statement to reflect any material 
70.14 	change in the information required by this chapter.
70.15 	(c) The master association, within ten days after a request by a declarant, a holder 
70.16 	of declarant rights, or a buyer referred to in section 515B.4-101(e), or the authorized 
70.17 	representative of any of them, shall furnish the information required to be provided by 
70.18 	subsection (a)(20). A declarant or other person who provides information pursuant to 
70.19 	subsection (a)(20), is not liable to the buyer for any erroneous information if the declarant 
70.20 	or other person: (i) is not an affiliate of or related in any way to a person authorized to 
70.21 	appoint the master association board pursuant to section 515B.2-121(c)(3), and (ii) has no 
70.22 	actual knowledge that the information is incorrect.
70.23 	(d) This section applies only to common interest communities created on or after 
70.24 	August 1, 2010.

70.25 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

70.26 	Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 515B.4-115, is amended to read:
70.27 	515B.4-115 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR WARRANTIES.
70.28 	(a) A judicial proceeding for breach of an obligation arising under section 
70.29 	515B.4-101(e) or 515B.4-106(d), shall be commenced within 12 six months after the 
70.30 	conveyance of the unit or other parcel of real estate.
70.31 	(b) A judicial proceeding for breach of an obligation arising under section 
70.32 	515B.4-112 or 515B.4-113 shall be commenced within six years after the cause of action 
70.33 	accrues, but the parties may agree to reduce the period of limitation to not less than two 
70.34 	years. An agreement reducing the period of limitation signed by one purchaser of a unit
71.1 	shall be binding on any copurchasers of the unit, and the purchasers' successors and
71.2 	purchaser's assigns. With respect to a unit that may be occupied for residential use, an 
71.3 	agreement to reduce the period of limitation must be evidenced by an instrument separate 
71.4 	from the purchase agreement signed by a the purchaser of the unit.
71.5 	(c) Subject to subsection (d), a cause of action under section 515B.4-112 or 
71.6 	515B.4-113, regardless of the purchaser's purchasers' lack of knowledge of the breach, 
71.7 	accrues:
71.8 	(1) as to a unit, at the earlier of the time of conveyance of any interest in the unit by 
71.9 	a the declarant to a bona fide purchaser, of the unit other than an affiliate of a declarant, or 
71.10 	the time a the purchaser enters into possession of the unit. As to a unit subject to time 
71.11 	shares, a cause of action accrues upon the earlier of the conveyance of the unit or the 
71.12 	conveyance of the first time share interest in the unit to a purchaser; and
71.13 	(2) as to each common element, the latest of (i) the time the common element is 
71.14 	completed;, (ii) the time the first interest in a unit in the common interest community is 
71.15 	conveyed to a bona fide purchaser, or, if the common element is located on property that 
71.16 	was is additional real estate, at the time the first interest in a unit created thereon therein
71.17 	is conveyed to a bona fide purchaser; or (iii) the termination of the period of declarant 
71.18 	control.
71.19 	(d) If a warranty explicitly extends to future performance or duration of any 
71.20 	improvement or component of the common interest community, the cause of action 
71.21 	accrues at the time the breach is discovered or at the end of the period for which the 
71.22 	warranty explicitly extends, whichever is earlier.
71.23 	(e) This section applies only to common interest communities created before August 
71.24 	1, 2010.

71.25 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

71.26 	Sec. 21. [515B.4-1151] STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR WARRANTIES.
71.27 	(a) A judicial proceeding for breach of an obligation arising under section 
71.28 	515B.4-101(e) or 515B.4-106(d) shall be commenced within 12 months after the 
71.29 	conveyance of the unit or other parcel of real estate.
71.30 	(b) A judicial proceeding for breach of an obligation arising under section 
71.31 	515B.4-112 or 515B.4-113 shall be commenced within six years after the cause of action 
71.32 	accrues, but the parties may agree to reduce the period of limitation to not less than two 
71.33 	years. An agreement reducing the period of limitation signed by one purchaser of a unit 
71.34 	shall be binding on any copurchasers of the unit, and successor purchasers' successors 
71.35 	and assigns. With respect to a unit that may be occupied for residential use, an agreement 
72.1 	to reduce the period of limitation must be evidenced by an instrument separate from the 
72.2 	purchase agreement signed by a purchaser of the unit.
72.3 	(c) Subject to subsection (d), a cause of action under section 515B.4-112 or 
72.4 	515B.4-113, regardless of the purchaser's lack of knowledge of the breach, accrues:
72.5 	(1) as to a unit, at the earlier of the time of conveyance of any interest in the unit by 
72.6 	a declarant to a bona fide purchaser, other than an affiliate of a declarant, or the time a 
72.7 	purchaser enters into possession of the unit. As to a unit subject to time shares, a cause of 
72.8 	action accrues upon the earlier of the conveyance of the unit or the conveyance of the first 
72.9 	time share interest in the unit to a purchaser; and
72.10 	(2) as to each common element, the latest of (i) the time the common element is 
72.11 	completed; (ii) the time the first interest in a unit in the common interest community is 
72.12 	conveyed to a bona fide purchaser, or, if the common element is located on property that 
72.13 	was additional real estate, at the time the first interest in a unit created thereon is conveyed 
72.14 	to a bona fide purchaser; or (iii) the termination of the period of declarant control.
72.15 	(d) If a warranty explicitly extends to future performance or duration of any 
72.16 	improvement or component of the common interest community, the cause of action 
72.17 	accrues at the time the breach is discovered or at the end of the period for which the 
72.18 	warranty explicitly extends, whichever is earlier.
72.19 	(e) This section applies only to common interest communities created on or after 
72.20 	August 1, 2010, and before August 1, 2011.

72.21 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

72.22 	Sec. 22. [515B.4-1152] STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR WARRANTIES.
72.23 	(a) A judicial proceeding for breach of an obligation arising under section 
72.24 	515B.4-101(e) or 515B.4-106(d) shall be commenced within 12 months after the 
72.25 	conveyance of the unit or other parcel of real estate.
72.26 	(b) A judicial proceeding for breach of an obligation arising under section 
72.27 	515B.4-112 or 515B.4-113 shall be commenced within six years after the cause of action 
72.28 	accrues, but the parties may agree to reduce the period of limitation to not less than two 
72.29 	years. An agreement reducing the period of limitation signed by one purchaser of a unit 
72.30 	shall be binding on any copurchasers of the unit. If an agreement reducing the period of 
72.31 	limitations is recorded in compliance with applicable law, the agreement is binding on the 
72.32 	purchaser's and copurchaser's successors in title to the unit. With respect to a unit that 
72.33 	may be occupied for residential use, an agreement to reduce the period of limitation 
72.34 	must be evidenced by an instrument separate from the purchase agreement signed by 
72.35 	a purchaser of the unit.
73.1 	(c) Subject to subsection (d), a cause of action under section 515B.4-112 or 
73.2 	515B.4-113, regardless of the purchaser's lack of knowledge of the breach, accrues:
73.3 	(1) as to a unit, at the earlier of the time of conveyance of any interest in the unit by 
73.4 	a declarant to a bona fide purchaser, other than an affiliate of a declarant, or the time a 
73.5 	purchaser enters into possession of the unit. As to a unit subject to time shares, a cause of 
73.6 	action accrues upon the earlier of the conveyance of the unit or the conveyance of the first 
73.7 	time share interest in the unit to a purchaser; and
73.8 	(2) as to each common element, the latest of (i) the time the common element is 
73.9 	completed; (ii) the time the first interest in a unit in the common interest community is 
73.10 	conveyed to a bona fide purchaser, or, if the common element is located on property that 
73.11 	was additional real estate, at the time the first interest in a unit created thereon is conveyed 
73.12 	to a bona fide purchaser; or (iii) the termination of the period of declarant control.
73.13 	(d) If a warranty explicitly extends to future performance or duration of any 
73.14 	improvement or component of the common interest community, the cause of action 
73.15 	accrues at the time the breach is discovered or at the end of the period for which the 
73.16 	warranty explicitly extends, whichever is earlier.
73.17 	(e) This section applies only to common interest communities created on or after 
73.18 	August 1, 2011.

73.19 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.