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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 36B. Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act » Article 2. Creation, Alteration and Termination of Common Interest Communities

§36B-2-101. Creation of Common Interest Communities

(a) A common interest community may be created pursuant to this chapter only by recording a declaration executed in the same manner as a deed and, in a cooperative, by conveying the real estate subject to that declaration to the association. The declaration must be recorded in every county in which any portion of the […]

§36B-2-102. Unit Boundaries

Except as provided by the declaration: (1) If walls, floors or ceilings are designated as boundaries of a unit, all lath, furring, wallboard, plasterboard, plaster, paneling, tiles, wallpaper, paint, finished flooring and any other materials constituting any part of the finished surfaces thereof are a part of the unit, and all other portions of the […]

§36B-2-103. Construction and Validity of Declaration and Bylaws

(a) All provisions of the declaration and bylaws are severable. (b) The rule against perpetuities does not apply to defeat any provision of the declaration, bylaws, rules or regulations adopted pursuant to section 3-102(a)(1). (c) In the event of a conflict between the provisions of the declaration and the bylaws, the declaration prevails except to […]

§36B-2-104. Description of Units

A description of a unit which sets forth the name of the common interest community, the recording data for the declaration, the county in which the common interest community is located, and the identifying number of the unit, is a legally sufficient description of that unit and all rights, obligations and interests appurtenant to that […]

§36B-2-105. Contents of Declaration

(a) The declaration must contain: (1) The names of the common interest community and the association and a statement that the common interest community is either a condominium, cooperative or planned community;

§36B-2-106. Leasehold Common Interest Communities

(a) Any lease, the expiration or termination of which may terminate the common interest community or reduce its size, must be recorded. Every lessor of those leases in a condominium or planned community shall sign the declaration. The declaration must state: (1) The recording data for the lease;

§36B-2-107. Allocation of Allocated Interests

(a) The declaration must allocate to each unit: (i) In a condominium, a fraction or percentage of undivided interests in the common elements and in the common expenses of the association, (section 3-115(a)) and a portion of the votes in the association; (ii) In a cooperative, an ownership interest in the association, a fraction or […]

§36B-2-108. Limited Common Elements

(a) Except for the limited common elements described in section 2-102(2) and (4), the declaration must specify to which unit or units each limited common element is allocated. An allocation may not be altered without the consent of the unit owners whose units are affected. (b) Except as the declaration otherwise provides, a limited common […]

§36B-2-109. Plats and Plans

(a) Plats and plans are a part of the declaration and are required for all common interest communities except cooperatives. Separate plats and plans are not required by this chapter if all the information required by this section is contained in either a plat or plan. Each plat and plan must be clear and legible […]

§36B-2-110. Exercise of Development Rights

(a) To exercise any development right reserved under section 2-105(a)(8), the declarant shall prepare, execute and record an amendment to the declaration (section 2-117) and in a condominium or planned community comply with section 2- 109. The declarant is the unit owner of any units thereby created. The amendment to the declaration must assign an […]

§36B-2-111. Alterations of Units

Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, a unit owner: (1) May make any improvements or alterations to his unit that do not impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems or lessen the support of any portion of the common interest community;

§36B-2-112. Relocation of Boundaries Between Adjoining Units

(a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, the boundaries between adjoining units may be relocated by an amendment to the declaration upon application to the association by the owners of those units. If the owners of the adjoining units have specified a reallocation between their units of their allocated […]

§36B-2-113. Subdivision of Units

(a) If the declaration expressly so permits, a unit may be subdivided into two or more units. Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, upon application of a unit owner to subdivide a unit, the association shall prepare, execute and record an amendment to the declaration, including in a condominium […]

§36B-2-114. Monuments as Boundaries

The existing physical boundaries of a unit or the physical boundaries of a unit reconstructed in substantial accordance with the description contained in the original declaration are its legal boundaries, rather than the boundaries derived from the description contained in the original declaration, regardless of vertical or lateral movement of the building or minor variance […]

§36B-2-115. Use for Sales Purposes

A declarant may maintain sales offices, management offices and models in units or on common elements in the common interest community only if the declaration so provides and specifies the rights of a declarant with regard to the number, size, location and relocation thereof. In a cooperative or condominium, any sales office, management office or […]

§36B-2-116. Easement Rights

(a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration, a declarant has an easement through the common elements as may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of discharging the declarant's obligations or exercising special declarant rights, whether arising under this chapter or reserved in the declaration. (b) In a planned community, subject to the provisions of […]

§36B-2-117. Amendment of Declaration

(a) Except in cases of amendments that may be executed by a declarant under section 2-109(f) or 2-110, or by the association under section 1-107, 2-106(d), 2-108(c), 2- 112(a), or 2-113, or by certain unit owners under section 2- 108(b), 2-112(a), 2-113(b), or 2-118(b), and except as limited by subsection (d), the declaration, including any […]

§36B-2-118. Termination of Common Interest Community

(a) Except in the case of a taking of all the units by eminent domain (section 1-107) or in the case of foreclosure against an entire cooperative of a security interest that has priority over the declaration, a common interest community may be terminated only by agreement of unit owners of units to which at […]

§36B-2-119. Rights of Secured Lenders

The declaration may require that all or a specified number or percentage of the lenders who hold security interests encumbering the units approve specified actions of the unit owners or the association as a condition to the effectiveness of those actions, but no requirement for approval may operate to: (i) Deny or delegate control over […]

§36B-2-120. Master Associations

(a) If the declaration provides that any of the powers described in section 3-102 are to be exercised by or may be delegated to a profit or nonprofit corporation or to a unincorporated association that exercises those or other powers on behalf of one or more common interest communities or for the benefit of the […]