3.1 Annual Meetings.
The organizational meeting of the Association shall be held not later than two months after the date of the termination of management by Declarant as provided in Section 3.2 of the Declaration. Thereafter, there shall be an annual meeting of the Owners at such reasonable place, time and date as may be designated by written notice of the Board delivered to the Owners no less than ten days prior to the date fixed for said meeting. At the annual meeting, there shall be presented a full and complete report of the common expenses, if any, and the allocation hereof to each Owner, itemizing receipts and disbursements for the preceding fiscal year, and there shall also be presented the estimated common expenses, if any, for the coming fiscal year. The Board at any time, or by written request of Owners having at least 40% of the total votes, may require that an audit of the Association and management books be presented at any special meeting. A Lot Owner, at his own expense, may, at any reasonable time, make an audit of the books of the Board and Association.
3.2 Special Meetings.
Special meetings of the Owners may be called at any time for the purpose of considering matters which, by the terms of the Declaration, require the approval of all or some of the Owners, or for any other reasonable purpose. Such meeting shall be called by written notice of the president of the Association upon the decision of the president, or after request signed by a majority of a quorum of the Board, or by written request by the Owners having at least 40% of the total votes, which notice shall be delivered not less than ten days prior to the date fixed for said meeting. The notice shall specify the date, time and place of the meeting and, in general, the matters to be considered.
3.3 Quorum Requirements for Association Meeting.
At all meetings of the Association, Owners, who are either present in person or by proxy and who hold 51% of the total voting power, shall constitute a quorum. Owners holding a majority of total voting power, present and entitled to vote, either in person or by proxy, shall be sufficient for the passage of any motion or the adoption of any resolution, except in connection with amendment or repeal of the Declaration. If the required quorum is not present, another meeting may be called subject to the requirement of written notice sent to all Members at least ten days in advance of such meeting, and the required quorum at the subsequent meeting shall be one-half of the required quorum for the preceding meeting. In the absence of a quorum at a members' meeting, a majority of those present in person or by proxy may adjourn the meeting to another time but may not transact any other business. An adjournment for lack of a quorum shall be to a date not more than 30 days from the original meeting date.
3.4 Proxies.
At all meetings of Members, each Member may vote in person or by proxy. All proxies shall be in writing and filed with the Secretary. Every proxy shall be revocable and shall automatically cease upon conveyance by a Member of his Lot.
3.5 Voting by Mail.
The Board may decide that voting of the members shall be by mail with respect to any particular election of the Board or with respect to adoption of any proposed amendment to the Declaration or Bylaws, or with respect to any other matter for which approval by Owners is required by the Declaration or Bylaws, in accordance with the following procedure:
(a) In case of election of Board members by mail, the exiting Board members shall advise the Secretary in writing of the names of proposed Board members sufficient to constitute a full Board and of a date at least 50 days after such advice is given by which all votes are to be received. The Secretary within five days after such advice is given shall give written notice of the number of Board members to be elected and of the names of the nominees to all Owners of each membership. The notice shall state that any such Owner may nominate an additional candidate or candidates, not to exceed the number of Board members to be elected, by notice in writing to the Secretary at the specified address of the principal office of the Association, to be received on or before a specified date 15 days from the date the notice is given by the Secretary. Within five days after such specified date the Secretary shall give written notice to all Owners, stating the number of Board members to be elected, stating the names of all persons nominated by the Board and by the members on or before said specified date, stating that each Owner may cast a vote by mail and stating the date established by the Board by which such votes must be received by the Secretary at the address of the principal office of the Association, which shall be specified in the notice. Votes received after that date shall not be effective. All persons elected as Board members pursuant to such an election by mail by receipt of the number of votes required by applicable law shall take office effective on the date specified in the notice for receipt of such votes.
(b) In the case of a vote by mail relating to any other matter, the Secretary shall give written notice to all Owners, which notice shall include a proposed written resolution setting forth a description of the proposed action, and shall state that such persons are entitled to vote by mail for or against such proposal and stating a date not less than 20 days after the date such notice shall have been given on or before which all votes must be received and stating that they must be sent to the specified address of the principal office of the Association. Votes received after that date shall not be effective. Any such proposal shall be adopted if approved by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the votes entitled to be cast on such question, unless a greater or lesser voting requirement is established by the Declaration or Bylaws for the matter in question.
(c) Delivery of a vote in writing to the principal office of the Association shall be equivalent to receipt of a vote by mail at such address for the purposed of this Section 3.5.
3.6 Voting Owner.
There shall be one voting representative of each Lot. Declarant shall be considered an "Owner" as that term is used herein, and shall be the voting representative, with respect to any Lot or Lots owned by Declarant. If a person (including Declarant) owns more than one Lot, he shall have the votes for each Lot owned. The voting representative of a Lot shall be designated by the Owner or Owners of each Lot by written notice to the Board, and need not be an Owner. The designation shall be revocable at any time by actual notice to the Board from a party having an ownership interest in a Lot, or by actual notice to the Board of the death or judicially declared incompetence of any party with an ownership interest in the Lot. This power of designation and revocation may be exercised by the guardian of a Lot Owner and the administrators or executors of an Owner's estate. Where no designation is made, or where a designation has been made but is revoked and no new designation has been made, the voting representative of each Lot shall be the group composed of all of its Owners.
3.7 Joint Owner Disputes.
The vote for any Lot must be cast as a single vote, and fractional votes shall not be allowed. In the event that joint Owners are unable to agree among themselves as to how their vote or votes shall be cast, they shall lose their right to vote on the matter in question. In the event more than one vote is cast for a particular Lot, none of said votes shall be counted and said votes shall be deemed void.
3.8 Pledged Votes
If an Owner is in default under a first mortgage on the Lot of 90 consecutive days or more, the Mortgagee thereof (as defined in the Declaration) shall automatically be authorized to declare at any time thereafter that the Lot Owner has pledged his or her vote on all issues to the Mortgagee during the continuance of the default. If the Board has been notified of any such pledge to a Mortgagee, or in the event the record Owner or Owners have otherwise pledged their vote regarding special matters to a Mortgagee under a duly recorded Mortgage or to the vendor under a duly recorded real estate contract, only the vote of such Mortgagee or vendor will be recognized in regard to the special matters upon which the vote will be so pledged. Amendments to this subsection shall only be effective upon the written consent of all the voting Owners and their respective Mortgagees and vendors, if any.
3.9 Order of Business.
The order of business at all meetings of the Owners of Lots shall be as follows:
(a) Roll call;
(b) Proof of Notice of meeting or waiver of notice;
(c) Reading of minutes of preceding meeting;
(d) Reports of officers;
(e) Reports of committees;
(f) Election of Board members (annual meeting only);
(g) Unfinished business; and
(h) New business.