Amended in Assembly April 4, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1720

Introduced by Assembly Member Wagner

January 27, 2016

An act to amend Section 4925 of the Civil Code, relating to common interest developments.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1720, as amended, Wagner. Common interest developments: meetings.

Existing law requires an association managing a common interest development to provide notice of the time and place of a board meeting and authorizes any member of the association to attend board meetings, except when the board adjourns to, or meets solely in, executive session. Existing law also requires the board to permit any member to speak at any meeting, except for executive session meetings.

This bill would require the board to permit begin delete an attorney who end delete begin insert a person that end insert represents a member to attend board meetings, and would require written notice to be given, as specified.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 4925 of the Civil Code is amended to
read:

4925.  

(a) A member may attend board meetings, except when
the board adjourns to, or meets solely in, executive session. As
specified in subdivision (b) of Section 4090, a member of the
association shall be entitled to attend a teleconference meeting or
the portion of a teleconference meeting that is open to members,
and that meeting or portion of the meeting shall be audible to the
members in a location specified in the notice of the meeting.

(b) The board shall permit the member to speak at any meeting
of the association or the board, except for meetings of the board
held in executive session. A reasonable time limit for all members
of the association to speak to the board or before a meeting of the
association shall be established by the board.

(c) The board shall permit begin delete an attorney who end delete begin insert a person who end insert
represents a member to attend any board meeting that the member
is permitted to attend, regardless of whether the member attends.
begin delete Where possible, the end delete begin insert The end insert member shall give the board at least 48
hours advance written notice that begin delete his or her attorney end delete begin insert a person
representing the member end insert will attend the board meeting.