Many people are unaware that the term "executive session" does not appear anywhere in the California Corporations Code. This is because, for most types of California corporations,
1 meetings of boards of directors are always closed to the non-director shareholders/members, and thus there is no need for the executive session concept. However, with respect only to owners associations that manage common interest developments (CIDs),
2 the opposite is true: the Davis-Stirling Act (specifically, California Civil Code Section
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Every Association Needs Election Rules, But Why?
Even though the elections law (Civil Code sections 1363.03, 1363.04 and 1363.09) went into effect well over six years ago (July 2006), we still frequently come across associations without election rules in place. We often hear that some boards of directors resist investing in election rules because they do not want to spend the money. This is tragic,