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[CITE: 15USC3609]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
CHAPTER 62--CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSION PROTECTION AND ABUSE 
                                 RELIEF
 
Sec. 3609. Void lease or contract provisions

    Any provision in any lease or contract requiring unit owners or the 
owners' association, in any conversion project involving a contract 
meeting the requirements of section 3607 of this title of in any project 
involving a lease meeting the requirements of section 3608 of this 
title, to reimburse, regardless of outcome, the developer, his 
successor, or affiliate of the developer for attorneys' fees or money 
judgments, in a suit between unit owners or the owners' association and 
the developer arising under the lease or agreement, is against public 
policy and void.

(Pub. L. 96-399, title VI, Sec. 610, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1678.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 8, 1980, except that prohibition included in 
this section as it relates to a lease with respect to which a cause of 
action may be established under section 3608 of this title, shall be 
effective one year after Oct. 8, 1980, see section 618 of Pub. L. 96-
399, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 3610, 3611 of this title.
