(a) Secured lender approval.--The declaration may provide that all or a specified number or percentage of secured creditors of the association or lenders holding security interests encumbering the cooperative interests approve specified actions of the proprietary lessees of the association as a condition to the effectiveness of those actions, and the declaration may provide for procedures that will enable such lenders to have their approval rights recognized by the executive board, but no requirement for approval may operate to:

(1) Deny or delegate control over the general administrative affairs of the association by the proprietary lessees or the executive board.

(2) Prevent the association or the executive board from commencing, intervening in or settling any litigation or proceeding.

(3) Receive and distribute any insurance proceeds except pursuant to section 4313 (relating to insurance).

(b) Secured lender approval procedures.--If the declaration requires mortgagees or beneficiaries of deeds of trust encumbering the units to approve specified actions of the proprietary lessees or the association as a condition to the effectiveness of those actions, then the executive board will provide the lender with written notice of the specified action proposed to be taken, together with a request for the secured lender to approve or disapprove the actions specified. If the notice to the secured lender, issued in accordance with the procedures set forth in this subsection, states that the secured lender will be deemed to have approved the actions specified in the written notice if it does not respond to the request within 45 days and the secured lender does not respond in writing within 45 days, then the secured lender will be deemed for all purposes to have approved the action specified in the notice. Written notice to the secured lender shall be given by certified, registered or first-class mail, evidenced by a United States Postal Service certificate of mailing, postage prepaid, at the address provided by the secured lender or, in the absence thereof, at the address of the secured lender endorsed on any mortgage or deed of trust of record and at the address to which the unit owner mails any periodic payment paid to the secured lender. The notice to the secured lender shall include a statement of the specified action, a copy of the full text of any proposed amendment and a form prepared by the association upon which the secured lender may indicate its approval or rejection of the specified action or amendment.

(Nov. 30, 2004, P.L.1499, No.190, eff. 60 days)

Cross References. Section 4218 is referred to in section 4216 of this title.