A new statute is being widely misapplied since it says HOAs can meet purely virtually if a declared emergency renders it “unsafe or impossible” to meet.
Q: It seems our HOA is hiding behind an over-used Covid excuse to hold their meetings virtually. Is there currently a requirement for these meetings to be exclusively virtual? Has such a past law been repealed or expired so that we are back to in-person? — J.H., San Diego
Q: Until COVID-19, our monthly HOA board meetings were held near the community. Since early 2020, the board meetings have been held via Zoom only. When I inquired about in-person meetings resuming, I was told that it was not something being considered by the board. Based on one of your prior articles, it appears virtual-only meetings are illegal since the emergency conditions have passed. Am I correct? — R.R., Rancho Santa Margarita.
A: In 2020, a number of counties banned meetings indoors of more than five unrelated persons. So, HOAs had to choose between violating the health orders or the Open Meeting Act. During those months, most HOAs chose to obey the health orders and began to have purely virtual meetings. Most if not all of those bans on indoor meetings ended in 2020, so it became no longer illegal to have in-person HOA board meetings.
In 2021, Senate Bill 391 was passed and became law in September 2021, and many have used the statute as a justification to continue with purely virtual meetings. Unfortunately, the new statute, Civil Code 5450, is being widely misapplied since it says that HOAs can meet purely virtually if a declared emergency renders it “unsafe or impossible” to meet. I am not aware of any jurisdiction in California that has banned indoor meetings . You can check www.covid19.ca.gov to confirm.
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