LEGAL RESOURCE CENTREMoneylife Foundation's Legal Resource Information Centre's (LRIC) main objective is to provide information, advice and preliminary guidance to persons needing legal help or planning legal action in 10 defined areas.
You can seek help and guidance in following 10 areas such as CHS, property-related issues, Complaints to regulators, Consumer complaints, IT Act and civil liberties, Filing PILs, Whistleblowers, Sexual harassment case, Wills & nominations, RTI and Basic legal research.
Dear Sir,
We are a CHS under the MCS Act. Some members who have regularly attended all AGMs, approved all business transacted in it over the years and received as well as acknowledged all notices, minutes, financials keep writing letter asking for all these documents for the last 10 years.
1. How many years old Financial Data can be asked to be provided by a member?
2. If the member has attended all AGMs and given his approval to all Financial Data through the years (proof with society) does the Society have to provide the same again?
3. Some members were levied a penalty for obstructing the AGM as per the prescribed procedure, they pay their dues minus the penalty amount, can the society charge interest on such unpaid penalty and what are the rights of such a member?
CHS, property-related issues
Our society is asking for transfer fees for the flat that i purchase through resale in 2020, The flat i purchase is not directly from builder.
Society was registered in jan 2020 , builder operated till 2023 , after the handover to society the committee introduce transfer fees in 2023 general meeting .and started collecting transfer fees from then onwards.
Now they are asking for transfer fees for the flat that i have purchased in 2020.
Should i have to give the transfer fees for this transactions CHS, property-related issues
We pay 10% non occupancy charges , but for parking of car and two wheelers the society asked to pay 50% more than what actual owners occupy flats ( this is no where mentioned in by laws , the MC decide parking charges which should be equal to all ).
The MC wanted to charged 2-3k as per flat size to owners for their tenants to use Gym and sports activities area within building , which included while buying flats and given by builder to all ) but since the additional charges didn’t agreed by owners to be paid for respective teneted premises, so MC put up Notice that Tenets should not be allowed to use the Gym and sports activities area within building .
We raised this issue with k ward dept. Ragistar but they also not give proper legal solutions for the illegal activities imposed by MC on owners who rented their flats. CHS, property-related issues
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