The Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972
The Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972
General197227 sections
This Act regulates the ownership and management of apartments in the state of Karnataka. It applies specifically to residential properties where owners submit their property to the Act by registering a Declaration. The legislation defines what constitutes an apartment, common areas, and facilities, and establishes rules for the creation of an association of apartment owners. By providing a legal framework for shared ownership, it ensures orderly management of common spaces, maintenance, and the rights and responsibilities of individual apartment owners, preventing disputes over property usage and collective management.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Application of the Act
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Status of apartments
- 5. Ownership of apartments
- 6. Common areas and facilities
- 7. Compliance with covenants, bye-laws and administrative provisions
- 8. Certain work prohibited
- 9. Encumbrances against apartments; removal from, encumbrances, effect of part payment
- 10. Common profits and expenses
- 11. Contents of Declaration
- 12. Contents of Deeds of Apartments
- 13. Declarations, deeds of apartments and copies of floor plans to be registered
- 14. Removal from provisions of this Act
- 15. Removal no bar to subsequent resubmission of property to this Act
- 16. Bye-laws and their contents.
- 17. Waiver of use of common areas and facilities; Abandonment of apartment.
- 18. Separate assessment.
- 19. Charge on property for common expenses.
- 20. Joint and several liability of vendor, etc, for unpaid common expenses.
- 21. Insurance.
- 22. Disposition of property; destruction or damage
- 23. Action
- 24. Act to be binding on apartment owners, tenants etc.
- 25. Power to make rules
- 26. Removal of doubt
- 27. Severability
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