(a) If the bylaws provide for cumulative voting for an election at a meeting, each unit owner present in person or represented by proxy shall have a number of votes equal to the unit owner‘s voting percentage multiplied by the number of positions to be filled at the election.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-124.5

  • Association: means the unit owners' association organized under section 514B-102 or under prior condominium property regime statutes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • board of directors: means the body, regardless of name, designated in the declaration or bylaws to act on behalf of the association. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, trust, or other legal entity, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Unit: means a physical or spatial portion of the condominium designated for separate ownership or occupancy, the boundaries of which are described in the declaration or pursuant to § 514B-35, with an exit to a public road or to a common element leading to a public road. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
  • Unit owner: means the person owning, or the persons owning jointly or in common, a unit and its appurtenant common interest; provided that to such extent and for such purposes as provided by recorded lease, including the exercise of voting rights, a lessee of a unit shall be deemed to be the unit owner. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514B-3
(b) Each unit owner shall be entitled to cumulate the votes of the unit owner and give all of the votes to one nominee or distribute the votes among any or all of the nominees.
(c) The nominee or nominees receiving the highest number of votes under this section, up to the total number of positions to be filled, shall be deemed elected and shall be given the longest term.
(d) This section shall not prevent the filling of vacancies on the board of directors in accordance with this chapter and the association‘s governing documents.

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