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However, it is the legal responsibility of the subscriber to determine if the service abides by your state laws regarding Condo and Homeowner Associations. CHOPAS, and its parent site Same-Page.com LLP, cannot be responsible for any disruption because of misconfiguration of the service.

While you may not be required to have a website by January 1, 2019, you should be aware of this law. Only a few states have as many regulated community associations as Florida. Florida, having more associations than nearly all the other states combined, it often provides the law blueprint other states follow. Therefore, if your state doesn’t require it now, it may soon do so.

The law only specifies that condo associations with 150+ units need to comply. If you're small, you can still use old-fashioned notices on a bulletin board.

While 718.111 only applies to condos, there’s another law (SB398) passed in the same legislative session (applying to condos, HOAs and Co-ops) that may apply. While the law does not specifically say HOAs and Co-Ops must have a website, it does say "…each association shall designate on its website..." which assumes each association must HAVE a website.

Furthermore, while the state of Florida has a different set of laws for Condos and HOAs, there are a number of circumstances that can cause your community to fall in a grey area, such as townhomes, mixed use, PUDs and master associations.

It is recommended that HOAs and Co-ops comply with the law. At the very minimum, you'll need a page with the required estoppel information.

Your Facebook group, in the eyes of the law, doesn't count. Neither does your owner-run independent website.

According to the law, the website must be, "An independent website or web portal wholly owned and operated by the association; or A website or web portal operated by a third-party provider with whom the association owns, leases, rents or otherwise obtains the right to operate a web page, subpage, web portal, or collection of subpages or web portals dedicated to the association’s activities and on which required notices, records and documents may be posted by the association."

The association and the board must officially run and operate the site.

The main issue is you need to have a private, password-controlled section on your website that only homeowners can see.

"The association’s website must be accessible through the Internet and must contain a subpage, web portal, or other protected electronic location that is inaccessible to the general public and accessible only to unit owners and employees of the association."

So, if your free website has a private area you control, then it’s compliant.

Privately Accessible to Owners

• Governing documents in digital form. This includes:
  • Your declaration
  • Articles of incorporation
  • Bylaws
  • CC&Rs
  • Every amendment that has been made to any of the above.
• A list of all executory contracts or documents (a contract that has not yet been fully performed or fully executed) as well as a summary of any open bids.
• Current and pending budgets.
• Annual financial reports. Additionally, you will need to include the financial statement for the most recent calendar period.
• Info on your board of directors, including each member's certification document, any contracts between them and the association, and any declarations of a conflict of interest.
• Supporting documents for consideration at unit-owner and annual general meetings, at least 7 days prior to the meeting.
• Board meeting Notice, Agenda and supporting items pending votes, at least 48 hours prior to the date of the meeting. The Board is expected to redact or withhold any information not intended to be accessible to owners.

Publicly Available

• Meeting notices for unit-owner and annual general meeting, 14 days prior to the meeting. This info must be linked from the homepage or listed on the homepage under a section titled "Notices."
• Association's estoppel designee. "Each association shall designate on its website a person or entity with a street or e-mail address for receipt of a request for an estoppel certificate issued pursuant to this section. The estoppel certificate must be provided by hand delivery, regular mail or e-mail to the requestor on the date of issuance of the estoppel certificate." This change was passed under SB 398: Estoppel Certificates, and applies to Statutes 718 (condos), 719 (co-ops) and 720 (homeowners associations).