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2023 SESSION
23102097DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 55.1-1940 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 55.1-1815.1 as follows:
§ 55.1-1815.1. Board of directors; election of members; nominating committees prohibited.
No association shall utilize a nominating committee or similar entity for the purpose of soliciting, nominating, selecting, or appointing a member or rejecting an otherwise qualified member of such association for a position on the board of directors.
§ 55.1-1940. Bylaws to be recorded with declaration; contents; unit owners' association; executive board; amendment of bylaws.
A. Bylaws providing for governance of the condominium by an association of all of the unit owners shall be recorded simultaneously with the declaration. The unit owners' association may be incorporated.
B. The bylaws shall provide whether or not the unit owners' association shall elect an executive board. If there is to be such a board, the bylaws shall specify the powers and responsibilities of the board and the number and terms of its members. Except to the extent the condominium instruments provide otherwise, any vacancy occurring in the executive board shall be filled by a vote of a majority of the remaining members of the executive board at a meeting of the executive board, even though the members of the executive board present at such meeting may constitute less than a quorum because a quorum is impossible to obtain. Each person so elected shall serve until the next annual meeting of the unit owners' association at which time a successor shall be elected by a vote of the unit owners. The bylaws may delegate to such board, inter alia, any of the powers and responsibilities assigned by this chapter to the unit owners' association. The bylaws shall also specify which, if any, of its powers and responsibilities the unit owners' association or its executive board may delegate to a managing agent.
C. No unit owners' association electing an executive board in accordance with its recorded bylaws shall utilize a nominating committee or similar entity for the purpose of soliciting, nominating, selecting, or appointing a unit owner or rejecting an otherwise qualified unit owner for a position on the executive board.
D. The bylaws may provide for arbitration of disputes or other means of alternative dispute resolution in accordance with subsection C of § 55.1-1915.
D. E. In any case where an
amendment to the declaration is required by subsection B, C, or D of §
55.1-1918, the person required to execute such amendment shall also prepare and
execute, and record simultaneously with such amendment, an amendment to the
bylaws. The amendment to the bylaws shall allocate votes in the unit owners'
association to new units on the same basis as was used for the allocation of
such votes to the units depicted on plats and plans recorded pursuant to
subsections A and B of § 55.1-1920 or shall abolish the votes appertaining to
former units, as appropriate. The amendment to the bylaws shall also reallocate
rights to future common surpluses, and liabilities for future common expenses
not specially assessed, in proportion to relative voting strengths as reflected
by the amendment.