QUESTION: If a member is delinquent, can we suspend their right to attend board meetings?
ANSWER: Boards can suspend "
privileges"
such as use of the recreational facilities, but the right to attend
meetings is not the same as using the swimming pool. Meeting attendance
is a right conferred by the Davis-Stirling Act: "Any member may attend board meetings, except when the board adjourns to, or meets solely in, executive session." (
Civ. Code §4925(a).) The statute makes an exception for executive sessions but not for delinquent owners.
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