Refusal to Produce Books and Records
The board or its agent declines to produce financial statements, minutes, contracts, bank records or the unit-owner list to an owner entitled to inspect them.
NEW YORK
No agency has jurisdiction
A special proceeding. The owner pays counsel to obtain documents the board was already obliged to hand over, and recovers those fees only rarely.
FLORIDA
10 days
10-working-day records deadline, rebuttable presumption of willful failure, $50/day statutory damages, and attorney fees to the prevailing party — Fla. Stat. s 718.111(12)(c)1.a. · source
3 verified cases — 0 against a board, 1 for a board, 2 split, 0 open. No clean finding of liability against a board in this bucket.
What the board is said to have done
Refused a unit owner access to the condominium's invoices, monthly financial reports, board minutes and legal bills, and to the contact list of the other unit owners.
A tribunal found for the party complaining of this.
Split decision
What the board is said to have done
Withheld the condominium's correspondence with a third party the owners were investigating, and the documents behind its settlement with the sponsor, asserting privilege without particulars — then paid the legal expenses of the subpoenaed parties out of association funds.
Partly sustained, partly rejected.
Split decision
What the board is said to have done
Declined a shareholder's demand to inspect the cooperative's books and records while a holdover proceeding against her was already pending.
No tribunal ever decided this.
Board prevailed — merits not decided; allegation, not a finding