Association and board meetings must be held and noticed as required, with unit-owner access and limited executive-session exceptions.
Sec. 82.108. MEETINGS. (a) Meetings of the association must be held at least once each year. Unless the declaration provides otherwise, special meetings of the association may be called by the president, a majority of the board, or unit owners having at least 20 percent of the votes in the association. (b) Meetings of the association and board must be open to unit owners, subject to the right of the board to adjourn a meeting of the board and reconvene in closed executive session to consider actions involving personnel, pending litigation, contract negotiations, enforcement actions, matters involving the invasion of privacy of individual unit owners, or matters that are to remain confidential by request of the affected parties and agreement of the board. The general nature of any business to be considered in executive session must first be announced at the open meeting. (b-1) A meeting of the association may be held by any method of communication, including electronic and telephonic means as provided by Section 6.002, Business Organizations Code. (c) A meeting of the board may be held by any method of communication, including electronic and telephonic means as provided by Section 6.002, Business Organizations Code, if: (1) notice of the meeting has been given in accordance with Subsection (e); (2) each director may hear and be heard by every other director; and (3) the meeting does not involve voting on a fine, damage assessment, appeal from a denial of architectural control approval, or suspension of a right of a particular association member before the member has an opportunity to attend a board meeting to present the member's position, including any defense, on the issue. (c-1) The board may act by unanimous written consent of all the directors, without a meeting, if: (1) the board action does not involve voting on a fine, damage assessment, appeal from a denial of architectural control approval, or suspension of a right of a particular association member before the member has an opportunity to attend a board meeting to present the member's position, including any defense, on the issue; and (2) a record of the board action is filed with the minutes of board meetings. (d) Notice of a meeting of the association must be given as provided by the bylaws, or, if the bylaws do not provide for notice, notice must be given to each unit owner in the same manner in which notice is given to members of a nonprofit corporation under Sections 6.051 and 22.156, Business Organizations Code. (e) Notice of a meeting of the board must be given as provided by the bylaws, or, if the bylaws do not provide for notice, notice must be given to each board member in the same manner in which notice is given to members of the board of a nonprofit corporation under Sections 6.051, 6.052, and 22.217, Business Organizations Code. (f) An association, on the written request of a unit owner, shall inform the unit owner of the time and place of the next regular or special meeting of the board. If the association representative to whom the request is made does not know the time and place of the meeting, the association promptly shall obtain the information and disclose it to the unit owner or inform the unit owner where the information may be obtained. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 244, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 956, Sec. 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1998. Amended by: Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 79 (S.B. 2629), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2025.