RA No. 9904 RULE I Flashcards
RA No. 9904 is otherwise known as
The Magna Carta for Homeowners and Homeowners Association
Refer to the fiscal or calendar year adopted by an association in the recording and reporting of its fiscal transactions
Accounting Period
Shall refer to the procedure in settling disputes involving the registration of two or more associations established within the same subdivision/village, defined community, or housing project.
Adjudicatory Mechanism
Shall refer to a plan drawn to a scale showing the divisions of a piece of land intended for subdivision projects, including off-site Community Mortgage Program (CMP), delineating its open space and individual lots, bearing the signature of a licensed individual, and stamp of approval of the NHA, DHSUD, HLURB, LGU and/or any appropriate government agency.
Approved Subdivision Plan
Shall refer to a homeowners association which is a non-stock, nonprofit association registered with DHSUD, or one previously registered with HLURB, HIGC (now HGC), or SEC
Association
Association is organized by and/or is primarily composed of:
- Owners or purchasers
- Awardees, usufructuaries, legal occupants, and/or lessees
- Underprivileged and homeless citizens
- Potential public housing beneficiaries
Shall refer to the amounts charged to the members on a regular basis primarily intended to defray the expenses incurred by the association.
Association dues
Shall refer to a homeowner who is a member of the association where the residential unit or lot is situated and those defined in the Articles of Incorporation/Association and bylaws of the association.
Association member
Shall refer to services and facilities that redound to the benefit of all homeowners and from which, by reason of practicality, no homeowner may be excluded such as, but not limited to, security, street and vicinity lights, maintenance, repairs and cleaning of streets, garbage collection and disposal, and other similar services and facilities.
Basic community services and facilities
Shall refer to the Board of Trustees or Directors of the association which has primary authority to manage its affairs.
Board
Shall refer to the association’s primary rules of governance, the institution and limitation of powers of its trustees or directors, and officers, and the establishment of rights and obligations of homeowners and association members consistent with RA No. 9904 and its implementing rules and regulations, guidelines, and pertinent provisions of the deed of restrictions.
Bylaws
Shall refer to the document issued by DHSUD to an association that has completed all the requirements for registration.
Certificate of Incorporation
Shall refer to the document issued by DHSUD to an association that has completed all the requirements for registration
Certificate of Incorporation
Shall refer to property owned or otherwise maintained, repaired, or administered in whole or in part by the association including, but not limited to, roads, parks, playgrounds, and open spaces as provided for in Presidential Decree No. 1216.
Common areas
Shall refer to costs incurred by the association in the exercise of any of the powers provided for in RA No 9904
Common expense
Shall refer to a mortgage financing program of the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) which assists legally organized association of underprivileged and homeless citizens to purchase and develop a tract of land under the concept of community ownership.
Community Mortgage Program (CMP)
Shall refer to a defined community where the beneficiaries come from other identified communities.
CMP Off-site Project
Shall refer to a defined community where the beneficiaries already occupy the land they purchased or intend to purchase.
CMP On-site Project
Shall refer to an organization of federated homeowners association created and registered to pursue common goals beneficial to the interests of the constituent association and the members thereof
Confederation
Shall refer to the union of two or more associations in contiguous areas resulting in the termination of their respective existence for the purpose of the creation of a new association or the consolidated association.
Consolidation
Shall refer to registered associations which are parties to a merger, consolidation or federation
Constituent associations
Shall refer to two or more subdivisions or community housing projects or phases thereof that are physically related or linked by a shared infrastructure and well-defined adjoining or common boundaries, whether fully and partially.
Contiguous area