Responsibility for telephone wiring

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JasonF2
Posts: 3

Posted:

I've just had my landline re-activated after several years without. However, there's no dial tone. I called AT&T who are sending an engineer, and I was told any costs involved repairing the line even inside my unit should be bourn by the HOA according to a California law that relates specifically to phone lines.

Can anyone verify this?

SteveM9 (Massachusetts)
Posts: 3,688

Posted:

Depends....

Are you talking about a single home? Huge multi-unit condo? Etc?

JasonF2
Posts: 3

Posted:

It's a multi-unit condo.,

GlenL
Posts: 5,429

Posted:

Civil Code §1351. Defined Terms

(i)(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the declaration, internal and external telephone wiring designed to serve a single separate interest, but located outside the boundaries of the separate interest, are exclusive use common areas allocated exclusively to that separate interest.

Civil Code §1364. Responsibility for Maintenance; Termites; Temporary Relocation.

(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of the declaration, the owner of a separate interest is entitled to reasonable access to the common areas for the purpose of maintaining the internal and external telephone wiring made part of the exclusive use common areas of a separate interest pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (i) of Section 1351. The access shall be subject to the consent of the association, whose approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, and which may include the association's approval of telephone wiring upon the exterior of the common areas, and other conditions as the association determines reasonable.

JasonF2
Posts: 3

Posted:

Sorry, can you summarize that in simple english?

DonnaS
Posts: 5,596

Posted:

Jason,

It sounds like the HOA is responsible for all wiring except once it enters past the interior walls of the unit. Then it is owner responsibility.

JohnB26
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Posted:

"... the owner of a separate interest is entitled to reasonable access to the common areas for the purpose of maintaining the internal and external telephone wiring made part of the exclusive use common areas of..."

nope ... your phone ... your problem

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