Uniform Condomium Act

I have been studying the Uniform Condominium Act (129 pages and I have only read 10 pages so far)
I must be missing something because the information I have does not give the date this Act passed.
I am not certain if it passed in 1982 or 1968.
Does anyone on this site know when this Act was passed?

Bonnie although the UCA was designed to be a boilerplate for all states to adopt, I believe that even the states that did adopt it (Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia) picked and chose what they wanted. So unless you want a little lite reading, just for the heck of it, you would be better off studying Nebraska's Condo Act. http://www.condo.com/StateLawDownloads/Nebraska.pdf

For others wanting to read the UCA: http://www.uniformlaws.org/shared/docs/condominium/uca_80.pdf

Just out of curiosity why would you want to do this? I'm not an attorney but I can think of no good reason to do this and in your case, possibly some negative ones. If you succeed in this, what happens the the agreement currently in place with the assisted living facility you share the property and building(?) with? Most communities find it hard enough to get the numbers to simply amend the Covenants but you want them to first dissolve the current COA which often takes between 95 & 100% voting affirmatively (check your CC&R's) and then have 100% (which in my non-attorney opinion it would take) to vote to be bound by new covenants. Not to mention it would possibly void every mortgage currently in place because you have drastically changed the terms and conditions the mortgage was written under.

Bonnie,

I do not work in the legal profession, but I assume that you want to be able to take advantage of the new provisions in the latest Nebraska Condominium Act. I believe that the way you would do this, is by “AMENDING and RESTATING your Declaration of Condominium”, which you have to do by following the requirements to amend in your existing Declaration.

For reference:

https://dspace.creighton.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10504/39485/24_17CreightonLRev377(1983-1984).pdf?sequence=1

from page 385, and footnote 55 NEB. REV. STAT. Sec 76-826(b), it states that "owners of existing condominiums will be able to amend their condominium documents to take advantage of the new Act’s provisions."

The above sentence is extracted from the below paragraph:

“First, certain provisions of the Nebraska Act apply prospectively to "old" condominium declarations and bylaws which were valid under the prior law.52 Second, however, all sections of the prior law not specifically displaced will remain applicable to condominiums created before the effective date of the new law.53 Therefore, existing master deeds and bylaws will not be invalidated.54 Third, owners of existing condominiums will be able to amend their condominium documents to take advantage of the new Act's provisions. 55 They must, however, follow the amendment procedure of the prior law and their existing master deed and bylaws, 56 and the substance of the amendment must not violate the new Act.57”

Ellie,
I have just read the text, but have not studied all the footnotes. So it appears (as someone, maybe you) mentioned in this post that NE did not adopt all of the provisions of the Uniform Condominium Act.

Most of what was in the text I had previously studied either in a book from the library or just studying the NE statues. I still have a lot of studying to do. There is so much to learn.