Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corp. Law › CHAPTER 17. General Provisions Relating to Dissolution [8710 - 8724]

California Corporations Code § 8724. Owners' Associations; Restrictions on Asset Transfer and Dissolution

(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 80. Effective January 1, 2007.)
Text current as of August 17, 2026, per California Legislative Information.

Without the approval of 100 percent of the members, any contrary provision in this part or the articles or bylaws notwithstanding, so long as there is any lot, parcel, area, apartment, or unit for which an owners’ association, created in connection with any of the forms of development referred to in Section 11004.5 of the Business and Professions Code, is obligated to provide management, maintenance, preservation, or control, the following shall apply:

(a) The owners’ association or any person acting on its behalf shall not do either of the following:

(1) Transfer all or substantially all of its assets.

(2) File a certificate of dissolution.

(b) No court shall enter an order declaring the owners’ association duly wound up and dissolved.

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