IMPORTANT CHANGES AFFECTING ASSOCIATIONS

• CAM Management Companies / Firms must be licensed by the DBPR (not just the State of Florida)
  

• Any person or firm managing condominiums with 10+ units or a budget of $100,000 must be licensed by the DBPR

• Co-owners of a unit may not serve on the Board together, unless there is no on else qualified to serve.  If the co-owners own more than one unit, than the co-owners may serve for each unit owned.

• No Association owned unit's vote may be considered

• Owners who are 90 days or more delinquent with assessments may not serve on the Board

• Certain common element usage rights may be suspended for unit owners / and or tenants

• Past due unit owners rights may be suspended
  

• Any director 90 days past due in maintenance is considered to automatically have abandoned their position.

• Directors removed or suspended by the DBPR may not serve

• Records must be kept within 45 miles or within the county of the condominium

• Specific wording required to waive or reduce reserves & on proxies

• Certain religious decorations allowed

• Clarification of hurricane shutter specs and responsibility for maintenance

• Condominiums greater than 3 stories must be inspected by an architect every 5 years

• Officers, agents and members of the Board of Directors are required to adhere to a "good faith" and "reasonably prudent person standard" and provides for monetary damages and criminal penalties for breach of this standard.