Article 1064 requires each co-owner to contribute to the common expenses in proportion to the relative value of their fraction. Co-owners who have the use of a common portion for restricted use (PCUR) do, however, bear its maintenance and current repairs alone.
Since the 2019 reform the article draws three distinctions, not two: general common expenses, allocated by relative value among everyone; the maintenance and current repairs of a PCUR (balconies, assigned parking, lockers), paid by the beneficiaries alone; and major repairs to, or replacement of, a PCUR, which remain general expenses unless the declaration of co-ownership provides for a different apportionment.
The costliest mistake is billing the replacement of a balcony or a staircase to the beneficiaries alone with no clause in the declaration providing for it: that overcharges them. The opposite mistake — charging PCUR maintenance to everyone 'to keep things simple,' or having a subset pay a general expense — is not compliant either.
The Code does not define the boundary between a current repair and a major repair: it is assessed case by case. On a significant amount, that is a question for your notary or your CPA.
The obligation to contribute to the contingency fund and the self-insurance fund does not come from this article, but from article 1072 CCQ.
CondoAide applies the key configured from your declaration: relative value for general expenses, beneficiaries for PCUR, within a single set of books.
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