Common interest developments: notices: volunteer officers: liability.

The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act defines and regulates residential common interest developments. Existing law requires a common interest development to be managed by an association, which is incorporated or unincorporated. Existing law requires the owner of a separate interest in a common interest development to annually provide the association with specified written information, including an address for the purpose of receiving notices from the association. Existing law authorizes the association to use the property address when the owner fails to provide an address. Existing law also limits the personal liability of a volunteer officer or director of an association that manages a common development that is exclusively residential for tortious acts or omissions, if certain criteria are met, including that the act or omission be made in good faith and within the scope of duty. This bill would authorize the association, when an owner fails to provide the required notice, to use the last address provided in writing by the owner, except as specified. The bill would also extend the limitation on the personal liability, as described above, to a volunteer officer or director of a development that is mixed use when the volunteer officer or volunteer director is a tenant of a residential separate interest or is an owner of no more than 2 separate interests and whose ownership in the common interest development consists exclusively of residential separate interests.