Purpose


Section 719.106(1)(c), Florida Statutes, requires the Division to adopt reasonable rules to govern a member’s tape recording and videotaping of a cooperative association’s board of administration meetings. This proposed rule would provide that unit owners are entitled to tape record or videotape board, committee or unit owner meetings, but only through the use of electronic audio or video equipment or devices that do not produce distracting light or sound. The rule also provides that the board or unit owners may adopt written rules requiring set up of such audio or video recording equipment before the beginning of the meeting; restricting the person recording the meeting from moving around the meeting room to facilitate such recording; and obliging that advance notice to the board or unit owners be given of one’s intent to record the meeting.