Question:
Hi…hope you can help. Currently we as an HOA are paying our management company $9000+ annually to print, stuff, and mail hard copies of our Annual HOA Fee invoices. We want to use email to do the paperless option and to save our HOA dollars for other very pressing expenses. We see online that there are now digital platforms that use email to send HOA documents and invoices via email. We are aware that the federal government in the past few years included email as a legal form of delivering legal documents to recipients (the mailbox rule). So, our question is this: What is the current Georgia law governing which form(s) of delivery of invoices, bills, receipts, etc., by management of HOA communities? Can our annual HOA fee invoices be sent electronically/paperlessly? If yes, what is the law stating that.
Thank you so very much.
– Victoria
Answer:
Hi Victoria,
The Georgia Property Owners’ Association Act does not dictate the form of delivery required for HOA fee invoices. That being said, your governing documents may shed some light on this. Additionally, for notices of meetings, both the Georgia Property Owners’ Association Act and the Georgia Condominium Act permit electronic notices delivered in accordance with Chapter 12 of Title 10, the “Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.”
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