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Q: Can the board of an HOA handle any items via e-mail and have those acceptable as legal actions? I am wondering if the approval of meeting minutes can be handled via e-mail rather than waiting for the next meeting. If so, they could then be posted on our Web site and not be held up for the next meeting’s action.
If your HOA is organized as a nonprofit corporation as most are, it is governed by the N.C. Non-Profit Corporations Act (Chapter 55A of the N.C. General Statutes). The laws authorize a board to take action by majority vote at a board meeting.There is no substitute for the open exchange of ideas that occurs at a face-to-face board meeting. However, in recognition of the fact that decisions sometimes need to be made between regular board meetings, the laws also authorize the board to take action without a meeting, provided there is unanimous written consent of the directors.
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Q. Our homeowners association has become involved in an issue between two homeowners related to the natural flow of water from one home into the next.
Homeowner No 2 has put up a 4-inch metal retainer as well as sandbags just inside his property line to keep the water from overflowing into his yard and possibly entering his foundation. This water then backs up into the yard of homeowner No 1, causing puddling and possible entry into his foundation. The HOA board has requested that No.2 remove the retainer and sandbags as specified in the covenants, conditions and restrictions (CCRs), which in essence, forbid them unless first approved. The CCRs further state that with 10 days notice, the HOA may remove obstructions if the owner doesn’t.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
INFORMATION SHEET
November 2006
Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule
Preemption of Restrictions on Placement of Direct Broadcast Satellite, Broadband Radio Service, and Television Broadcast Antennas
Quick Links to Document Sections Below
As directed by Congress in Section 207 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Federal Communications Commission adopted the Over-the-Air Reception Devices (“OTARD”) rule concerning governmental and nongovernmental restrictions on viewers’ ability to receive video programming signals from direct broadcast satellites (“DBS”), broadband radio service providers (formerly multichannel multipoint distribution service or MMDS), and television broadcast stations (“TVBS”).
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To ensure that the right of an individual to display the flag of the United States on residential property not be abridged.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005′.
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