Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 62 — Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Protection and Abuse Relief
§ 3609. Void lease or contract provisions
Statutory text
Any provision in any lease or contract requiring unit owners or the owners’ association, in any conversion project involving a contract meeting the requirements of section 3607 of this title of in any project involving a lease meeting the requirements of section 3608 of this title, to reimburse, regardless of outcome, the developer, his successor, or affiliate of the developer for attorneys’ fees or money judgments, in a suit between unit owners or the owners’ association and the developer arising under the lease or agreement, is against public policy and void.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Condominium and Cooperative Abuse Relief Act of 1980
Pub. L. 96–399 title VI § 610 · 94 Stat. 1614
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 3609
(Pub. L. 96–399, title VI, § 610, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1678.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–399, title VI, § 610, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1678.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 610. prohibitions Any provision in any lease or contract requiring unit owners or the owners’ association, in any conversion project involving a contract meeting the requirements of section 608 of this title or in any project involving a lease meeting the requirements of section 609 of this title, to reimburse, regardless of outcome, the developer, his successor, or affiliate of the developer for attorneys’ fees or money judgments, in a suit between unit owners or the owners’ association and the developer arising under the lease or agreement, is against public policy and void.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , except that prohibition included in this section as it relates to a lease with respect to which a cause of action may be established under section 3608 of this title, shall be effective one year after , see section 618 of Pub. L. 96–399, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.