A public offering statement, issued pursuant to § 47-74f, shall disclose fully and accurately the characteristics of the condominium and shall make known to prospective purchasers all unusual and material circumstances or features affecting such condominiums. The public offering statement shall include the following: (1) The name and principal address of the declarant and the condominium; (2) a narrative description of the condominium, stating the total number of units to be sold and rented; and the total number of units that may be included in the condominium by reason of future expansion or merger of the condominium by the declarant; (3) copies of any management contract of agreement affecting the use, maintenance or access of all or part of any condominium with a brief narrative statement of the effect of each such agreement upon a purchaser, and a statement of the relationship, if any, between the declarant and the managing agent or firm; (4) a general description of the status of construction, zoning site plan approval, issuance of building permits, or compliance with any other state or local statute, ordinance or regulation affecting the condominium; (5) the significant terms of any encumbrances, easements, liens and matters of title affecting the condominiums; (6) the significant terms of any financing offered by the declarant to purchasers of units in the condominium; (7) the provisions of any warranties, including the warranties required by § 47-74e, on the units and common elements; (8) a schedule of the common expenses appertaining to each unit to be paid initially by each unit owner, during the twelve-month period following initial occupancy of the first unit to be sold to a unit owner other than the declarant, the total of which charges shall not be increased during such twelve-month period by more than ten per cent over the total of all charges set forth in such schedule, unless a majority of the unit owners other than the declarant, voting at a meeting duly called for that purpose, approve such increase; (9) whether membership in, or use of, the recreation facilities is, or is to be available to persons other than unit owners, and, if so, the terms and conditions of such use or membership; (10) a statement that the purchaser may cancel the nonbinding reservation or contract for the disposition, as the case may be, pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of § 47-74f; (11) if the disposition of a condominium unit is to be in the form of an agreement by the declarant to lease the unit to the purchaser in exchange for a lump sum initial payment, a copy of the proposed lease from which the actual lease may deviate only as to identity and type of unit, price and periodic rental; (12) copies of instruments which will be delivered to the purchaser to evidence his interest in the condominium unit and any other agreements which the purchaser will be required to sign; (13) after all the statements required in this subsection have been included, a statement in substantially the following form which at the declarant’s option may be in boldface type or capital letters: THE STATEMENTS SET FORTH ABOVE ARE ONLY SUMMARY IN NATURE. A PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER SHOULD REFER TO ALL REFERENCES AS WELL AS THE ENTIRE SET OF DISCLOSURE MATERIALS AND HIS PURCHASE CONTRACT. ALL DISCLOSURE MATERIALS AND CONTRACTS ARE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND IF NOT UNDERSTOOD, THE PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER SHOULD SEEK COMPETENT ADVICE; (14) in a leasehold condominium, a schedule of the lease rentals to be paid by each unit owner during the full lease term, the basis for such rental, the method to be used for subsequent determination of any increases of lease rentals, and the total amount to be paid by each unit owner at the time of the exercise of the option to purchase the fee simple title to the demised property.

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Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 47-71b

  • Building: means a structure or structures containing one or more units and comprising a part of the property. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Common elements: means all portions of the condominium other than the units. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Common expenses: means and includes: (1) Expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or replacement of the common elements. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Condominium: means real property and any incidents thereto and interests therein, lawfully submitted to this chapter by the recordation of condominium instruments pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Declarant: means the person or persons who execute the declaration or on whose behalf the declaration is executed. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Leasehold condominium: means property submitted to the provisions of this chapter by the fee owner, whereby unit leases are issued for a period not less than fifty years and provided, in a residential leasehold condominium, such lease provides that the lessee shall have the option to purchase the fee simple title to the demised property during the term of the lease at a price stated or by a method stated for subsequent determination of the total price. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of §. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Property: means and includes the land, all buildings, all improvements and structures thereon, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto, which have been or are intended to be submitted to the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Purchaser: means any person or persons who acquire, or enter into a nonbinding reservation agreement, bond for deed or contract for the purchase of, a condominium unit, including any person or persons who acquire or enter into a contract for the right to occupy a nonresidential condominium unit as a lessee in exchange for an initial payment to the seller of greater than twice the periodical payments and periodical payments thereafter. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Recreation facilities: means that portion of the common elements intended for recreational, social and similar community use by the unit owners. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Unit: means a part of the property including one or more rooms or designated spaces located on one or more floors or a part or parts thereof in a building, intended for any type of independent use, and with a direct exit to a public street or highway or to common elements leading to such street or highway. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a
  • Unit owner: means the person or persons owning a condominium unit or leasing a unit in a leasehold condominium, as hereinafter provided, and an undivided interest in the common elements specified and established in the declaration and the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of such person or persons, and a mortgagee or lienholder holding both legal and equitable title. See Connecticut General Statutes 47-68a