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Maharashtra Co-Operative Housing Society Bye Laws

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I. Preliminary

Bye Law No 1. (a) Name of the Society
                           (b) Procedure for changing the name
                           (c) Classification

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Bye Law No 2.(a) Address of the Society 
                           (b) Address for Correspondence
                           (c) Procedure for changing the address of the Society
                           (d) Procedure for changing the address of the Society

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II. Interpretations

Bye Law No. 3. Interpretations of the words and terms | Societies General Legal Words & Terminology, Important Term To Understand in Housing Society Read More


III. Area of Operation

Bye Law No. 4. Area of Operation of the Society Read More


IV. Objects

Bye Law No. 5. Objects of the Society| To obtain the conveyance from the owner/Promotor(Builder) | Manage the society | Raise Fund to achieving the day to day expenses | Provide Education & training: To obtain conveyance from the Owner/ Promoter Builder, To manage, maintain and administer the Society etc Read More


V. Affiliation

Bye Law No. 6. Affiliation of the Society to other Co-op Institutions Read More


VI. Funds  their Utilization and investment

(A) Raising of Funds

Bye Law No. 7. Different modes of raising Funds of the Society | Fund Raising From Members in various heads as defined here Read More


(B) Share Capital

Bye Law No. 8. Authorized Share Capital | What is Authorized Share Capital Share Capital Amount which is collected from Members Read More


Bye Law No. 9. Issue of Share Certificates to the Members of the Society | When society should issue the Share Certificate to members | How to issue duplicate share certificate:  Read More


Bye Law No. 10. Society's seal and signature of office bearers on every share certificate | How To Make Share Certificate: Every such Share Certificate shall bear the seal of the Society and be signed and by the Chairman, the Secretary, and one Committee Member Read More


(C) Limit of Liabilities

Bye Law No. 11. Limit of Liabilities : Restriction on incurring liabilities by the Society Read More


(D) Constitution of the Reserve Fund

Bye Law No. 12. How the Reserve Fund shall be constituted | How to create Reserve Fund ? | Appropriation of the amounts to the Reserves Fund of the Society. Read More


(E) Creation of Other Funds

Bye Law No. 13. Other Funds to be created by the Society.

                            (a) Creation of the Repair and Maintenance Fund by Society

                            (b) Creation of the Major Repairs Fund by Society

                            (c) Creation of the Sinking Fund by the Society

                            (d) Creation of the Education & Training Fund Read More


(F) Utilization of the Funds by the Society

Bye Law No. 14. (a) Utilization of the Reserve Funds 

                              (b) Utilization of the Repairs & Maintenance Fund 

                              (c) Utilization of the Sinking Fund

                              (d) Utilization of the Education & Training Fund Read More


(G) Investment of Funds

Bye Law No. 15. Modes of Investment of Funds of the Society Read More


VII. Members , their rights, responsibilities and liabilities

1. Membership

Bye Law No. 16. (A) Classes of Members

                               (B) Eligibility for Membership  Read More


Bye Law No. 17. Eligibility for Membership Of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 18. Eligibility of Corporate Bodies for Membership of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 19. (a) Conditions for individuals desiring to be Member of the Society
                               (b) Conditions of Associate Member of the Society
                               (c) Conditions of Membership for Body Corporate desiring to become Members of the Society
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Bye Law No. 20. Conditions for Nominal Membership of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 21. Procedure for disposal of Membership Applications Read More


2. Rights & Duties of Members

Bye Law No. 22. (A) Rights of Members 

                                (b) Getting Copy of the Bye-Laws & Audit Report  Read More


Bye Law No. 23. Inspection of Books and Record | Right of inspection of documents and getting copies thereof Read More


Bye Law No. 24. (C) Occupation of Flats: Right of occupationof the Flat Read More


Bye Law No. 25. (D) Restrictions on Rights of Associate and Nominal Members:  No rights of Membership for Associate Member except that under Section 27(2) of the Act Read More


Bye Law No. 26. No rights of Membership to a Nominal Member Read More

(E) Resignation by a Member

(1) Resignation by a Member

Bye Law No. 27. (a) Notice of resignation of Membership of the Society

                              (b) Resignation not to be accepted unless charges of the Society are fully paid

                              (c) Communication of outstanding charges due to Society from the Member

                              (d) Acceptance of resignation where no charges of the Society are outstanding

                              (e) Communication of reasons for rejection of resignation   Read More

(2) Resignation by an Associate Member

Bye Law No. 28. Resignation by an Associate Member Read More

(3)Resignation by a Nominal Member Resignation by a Nominal Member occupying the flat on behalf of a firm company or any other body corporate

Bye Law No. 29. Resignation by a Nominal Member occupying the flat on behalf of a firm company or any other Body Corporate Read More

(4) Resignation by a Nominal Member, who is Sub- lettee, Licensee, Caretaker etc

Bye Law No. 30. Resignation by a sub- lettee licensee- or caretaker Read More


Bye Law No. 31. Acquisition of shares and interest of the Member in the Capital / Property of the Society  Read More

(F) Nomination by Members

 Bye Law No. 32. Procedure for Nomination by a Member and its revocation. Read More


Bye Law No. 33. Recording of Nomination or revocations of earlier nomination Read More


Bye Law No. 34. Transfer of shares and interest of the Deceased Member in the capital /property of the Society to the Nominee Read More


Bye Law No. 35. Transfer of shares and interest of the Deceased Member in the capital/property of the Society to the heir  Read More


Bye Law No. 36. Payment of the value of shares and interest of the Deceased Member in the capital/property of the Society to the Nominee/Nominees Read More


Bye Law No. 37. Payment of the value of Shares and interest of the deceased Member in the capital / property of the Society to the heir / legal Representative Read More

(G) Transfer of Shares and Interest in the Capital/Property of the Society

Bye Law No. 38. (a) Notice of transfer of Shares and interest in the Capital/Property of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 39. (a) Disposal of application for transfer of Shares and interest of the Member in                                                                the capital/property of the society

                              (b) Committee / General Body not to ordinarily refuse any application for

                                    Membership or transfer of Shares

                              (c) Deemed to have been Admitted -if not communicated within three months

                              (d) Unauthorized transfer nulland  void Read More


Bye Law No. 40. Rights of Membership,since when to be exercised by the transferee Read More

(H) Exchange of Flats

Bye Law No. 41. Application for exchange of flats by the Members of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 42. Disposal of applications for exchanges of flats by Members of the Society Read More

(I) Sub-letting etc. of Flats

Bye Law No. 43. (a) Sub-letting not permissible except under the Society's permission

                              (b) Application for getting permission to sub-let etc. the flat Read More


Bye Law No. 44. Restrictions on assignment of occupancy right in the flat Read More


VIII. Responsibilities and Liabilities of Members

(A) Maintenance of Flats by Members

Bye Law No. 45. Flats to be kept clean Read More


Bye Law No. 46. (a) Additions and alterations in a flat to br carried out with the Committe's                                                                          permission.

                               (b) Application for permission for Making additions and alterations in a flat Read More


Bye Law No. 47. (a) Examination of flats by Secretary and report about repairs to Flats

                               (b) Notice to the Member about carrying out repairs in his flat by the Society 

                                      at its cost

                               (c) Notice to the Members for carrying out repairs to his flat at his cost Read More


Bye Law No. 48. (a) Not to do anything in a flat causing inconvenience, nuisance or annoying to                                                                 other Member 

                               (b) Committee to take action on complaints about violation of the provisions of                                                               the Bye-Law No. 48(a) Read More


(B) Expulsion of a Member

Bye Law No. 49. Grounds on which a Member could be expelled Read More


Bye Law No. 50. (a) Procedure for expulsion of a Member

                               (b) Forfeature of shares of the expelled Member Read More


Bye Law No. 51. Effect of expulsion on Membership of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 52. Handing over vacant possession of the flat by the expelled Member Read More


Bye Law No. 53. Acquisition of the shares and interest of the expelled Member Read More


Bye Law No. 54. Eligibility of the expelled Member for readmission to Membership of the Society Read More


(C) Cessation of Membership

Bye Law No. 55. Circumstances under which a person ceases to be a Member of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 56. Circumstances under which the person shall cease to be Associate Member Read More


Bye Law No. 57. Circumstances under which the person occupying the flat on behalf of the firm / company ceases to be the nominal Member Read More


Bye Law No. 58. Circumstances under which a Sub lettee, licensee or caretaker ceases to be the nominal Member Read More


Bye Law No. 59. Action by the Committee in the case of cessation of Membership on the Society Read More

(D) Restrictions on Holding more than one flat

Bye Law No. 60. Holding of multiple flats by Member Read More

(E) Liability of a Member and more Past Member

Bye Law No. 61. Liability limited to paid up amount shares amount Read More


Bye Law No. 62. Liability of the past and Deceased Members Read More

(F) Other Matters

Bye Law No. 63. Disposal of applications Read More


Bye Law No. 64. Payment of Value of shares and interest of a Member or past Member of the  Read More


IX. Levy of Charges of the Society

Bye Law No. 65. Composition of the Charges of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 66. Break-up of Service Charges of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 67. Sharing of the Society's Charges by the Members Read More


Bye Law No. 68. Repairs and maintenance to be carried out by Society Read More


Bye Law No. 69. Payment of the Society's Charges Read More


Bye Law No. 70. Review of cases of defaults in payments of the charges of the society Read More


Bye Law No. 71. Interest on defaulted charges Read More


X. Incorporation of Duties and Powers of the Society

Bye Law No. 72. Incorporation of the society Read More


Bye Law No. 73. Common Seal Read More


Bye Law No. 74. Charge and set off in respect of Shares and interest of a Member of the Society Read More


Bye Law No. 75. (a) Flat purchased is deemed to have been allotted 

                               (b) Policy of allotment of flats 

                               (c) Cancellation of allotment of flats

                               (d) Handing over possession of Flats

                               (e) Changes of user not permissible without sanction of the committee Read More


Bye Law No. 76. Society to carry out Structural Audit Read More...


Bye Law No. 77. To obtain a certificate of possession from the allotteey Read More...


Bye Law No. 78. (a) Policy of allotment of parking slots

                              (b) Restrictions on use of parking slots Read More...


Bye Law No. 79. Marking of parking spaces or slots Read More...


Bye Law No. 80. Eligibility for allotment of parking slots Read More...


Bye Law No. 81. Eligibility for allotment of parking slots by lots Read More...


Bye Law No. 82. Applications for allotment of parking slot Read More...


Bye Law No. 83. Payment of charges for parking of vehicles Read More...


Bye Law No. 84. Parking of other vehicles Read More...


XI. General Meetings

(A) First General Meeting

Bye Law No. 85. Holding of the First General Meeting within the stipulated period Read More...


Bye Law No. 86. Calling,on First General Meeting by the Registering Authority Read More...


Bye Law No. 87. Period of notice for the First General Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 88. (a) Functions of the First General Meeting 

                               (b) Nomination of a provisional committee by the Registering Authority Read More...


Bye Law No. 89. Recording of minutes at the First General Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 90. Handing over records by the Chief Promoter of the Societ Read More...


Bye Law No. 91. Powers of the Provisional Committee Read More


Bye Law No. 92. Period of Office of the Provisional Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 93. Handing overcharge by the Provisional Committee Read more...


(B) Annual General Body Meetings

Bye Law No. 94. Holding of Annual General Body Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 95. Functions of the Annual General Body Meeting of the Society Read More...

(C) Special General Body Meetings

Bye Law No. 96. When a Special General Body Meeting should be convened Read More...


Bye Law No. 97. Fixing date, time and place for Special General Meeting requisitioned  Read More...


Bye Law No. 98. Notice of the General Body Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 99. Period of notice of a General Body Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 100. Quorum for the General Body Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 101. Holding of the adjourned General Body Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 102. Postponement of General Body Meeting which cannot complete the business on the agenda  Read More


Bye Law No. 103. Chairman of the Society to preside over all General Body Meetings Read More


Bye Law No. 104. Restrictions on attending a general body meeting by a proxy Read More...


Bye Law No. 105. The voting right of a Member Read More...


Bye Law No. 106. One Member One Vote Read More...


Bye Law No. 107. How decisions shall be taken Read More...


Bye Law No. 108. Recording of the minutes of the general body meetings Read More...


Bye Law No. 109. Cancellation of the previous resolution of the General Body Meeting Read More...


XII. Management of the affairs of the society

Bye Law No. 110. General body meeting to be the supreme authority Read More...


Bye Law No. 111. Management of the Society to vest in the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 112. Exercise of powers by the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 113. Opening of Banking Account and Investment of Funds Read More...


Bye Law No. 114. Strength of the Managing Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 115. (a) Election of the Committee

                                 (b) Action if the nominations received are less than thee number of seats to be filled in Read More...


Bye Law No. 116. Prohibition against being interested in the Society transactions Read More...


Bye Law No. 117. Disqualification for election to the  Committee Members Read More...


Bye Law No. 118. Constitution of the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 119. (a) Cessation of a Member of the Committee

                                 (b) Intimation of Cessation of Membership of the Committee  Read More...


Bye Law No. 120. Restriction on being present at the time of consideration of a matter in which a member of the Committee is interested and voting on such matterRead More...


Bye Law No. 121. Period of Office of the elected Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 122. (a) The first Meeting of new Committee

                                 (b) Issue of notice of the first meeting of new Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 123. Custody of the records of the SocietyRead More...


Bye Law No. 124. Outgoing Chairman to handover charge to new ChairmanRead More...


Bye Law No. 125. Election of Office Bearers of the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 126. Quorum for Committee Meeting Read More...


Bye Law No. 127. Number of Committee Meeting to be held Read More...


Bye Law No. 128. Casual vacancies in the Committee to be filled in co-option Read More...


Bye Law No. 129. The period of office of the Member co-opted by the Committee. Read More...


Bye Law No. 130. Resignation by a Member of the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 131. Resignation of office bearers of the Committee  Read More...


Bye Law No. 132. Notice of Meeting of the CommitteeRead More...


Bye Law No. 133. The Chairman of the society to preside over the meetings of the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 134. One Member one vote, Decisions by majority of the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 135. A Special Meeting of Committee at the instance of the the 1/3rd members of the Committee or by the direction of the Chairman Read More...


Bye Law No. 136. Attending meetings of the Committee and recording their minutes by the Secreatary of the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 137. Joint and several liability of the members of the Committee Read More...


Bye Law No. 138. Powers, duties and functions of Committee: Subject to the Bye-law No. 112 the Committee shall exercise the powers and discharge the functions and duties as mentioned hereunder. Read More...


Bye Law No. 139. Power of the Chairman of the SocietyRead More...


Bye Law No. 140. Functions of the Secretary of the SocietyRead More...


XIII. Maintenance of books of accounts and registers

Bye Law No. 141. Books of accounts, registers and other records to be maintained Read More...


Bye Law No. 142. Other records to be maintained separately. Read More...


Bye Law No. 143. Responsibility for maintainance of account books, registers, records etc Read More...


Bye Law No. 144. Limit for maintaining cash on hand. Read More...


Bye Law No. 145. Payments beyond prescribed limit to be made by cheque and power to sign the cheque. Read More...


Bye Law No. 146. (a) Finalisation of accounts

                                  (b) Extension of time for finalsation of accounts Read More...


Bye Law No. 147. Security by Employees. Read More...


XIV. Appropriation of Profits

Bye Law No. 148. (a) Contributions to Statutory Reserve Fund of the Society

                                 (b) Distribution of the remaining profit of the Society Read More...


XV. To write of Irrecoverable dues

Bye Law No. 149. Amount which could be written off Read More...


Bye Law No. 150. Procedure to be followed before writing off any amounts Read More...


XVI. Audit of accounts of the society

Bye Law No. 151. Appointment of an Internal Auditor Read More...


Bye Law No. 152. Production of books and record for audit Read More...


Bye Law No. 153. Preparation of  the Audit Rectification Report Read More...


XVII. Conveyance of the property and repairs to and maintenance of the property

Bye Law No. 154. (a) Approval of Genral Body

                                 (b) Finalization of deed of Conveyance of the property

                                 (c) Execution of the deed of Conveyance  Read More...


Bye Law No. 155. Committee's responsibility to maintain the Property of the Society Read more...


Bye Law No. 156. Inspection of the property of the Society,to see if it needs repairs Read More...


Bye Law No. 157. Committee to execute the repairs and maintenance of the property of the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 158. The Committee to execute the work or repairs and maintenace of the Society's Property Read More...


Bye Law No. 159. (a) Various items of repairs and maintenance to be carried out by the Society at its cost.

                                  (b) Repairs by the Members at their cost Read More...


Bye Law No. 160. Insurance of the Building Read More...


Bye Law No. 161. Trees in the compound of the Society Read More...


XVIII. Other miscellaneous matters

Bye Law No. 162. Services of notice of the meeting, Communication of resolution or decision Read More...


Bye Law No. 163. Co-operative year Read More...


Bye Law No. 164. Notice Board of the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 165.  Penalties for breach of Bye -law of the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 166. Amendment to the bye-law of the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 167. Hours of operation of the lifts Read More...


Bye Law No. 168. Restrictions on playing games in the Ssociety's compound Read More...


Bye Law No. 169. (a) Restrictions on lettings or giving on leave and license basis, open space

                                    (b) Penalties for Encroachment of common spaces Read More...


Bye Law No. 170.  Provisions for use of the terrace Read More...


Bye Law No. 171. Copying fees for supply of copies of documents to Members of the Society Read More...


XIX. Redressal of Members Complaints

Bye Law No. 172. Complaints Application to be submitted to the Society Read More...


Bye Law No. 173. Committee's action on the complaint application Read More...


Bye Law No. 174. If the action is not taken within stipulated perood by the the Society then to whom the complaint to be made Read More...


XX. Regarding redevelopment of societies buildings

Bye Law No. 175. Redevelopment of Co-operative Housing Societies buildings  Read More...


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