Both Condominium board members and unit owners should be mindful of limitations placed on them via the Rhode Island Condominium Act through requirements that unanimous unit owner approval be obtained before a condominium’s declaration is amended in specific circumstances. A condominium’s “declaration” is the document recorded in a municipality’s land evidence records in order to create the condominium, and, as a general matter, most residential condominium declarations can be amended if 67 percent of the unit owners vote in favor of the amendment. The Rhode Island Condominium Act, however, places important, additional restrictions on certain types of declaration amendments.     Read the article……………..