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Committee advances bill letting owners record removal of unlawful deed restrictions
Summary
The Senate Government Organization Committee voted to report Senate Bill 38 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass; the bill lets individual owners record an amendment removing unlawful restrictions from deeds and lets common-interest governing bodies remove unlawful restrictions by board action.
The Senate Government Organization Committee voted to report Senate Bill 38 to the full Senate with a recommendation that it do pass and to first refer the bill under its original double committee reference to the Judiciary Committee. The motion was adopted by voice vote.
Senate Bill 38 would create a new article in state code implementing a uniform law that allows a property owner to record an amendment removing any “unlawful restriction” from the deed reflecting the owner's title to the owner's property. The bill also authorizes the governing body of a common-interest property (for example, a condominium association or homeowners association) to remove unlawful restrictions from…
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