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<section number="13-319" name="Alternative dispute resolution; filing disputes; exhaustion of association remedies" law="code" slug="sec-13-319" node_id="PTIITI17PULOLAPRGECOMA_SUBTITLE_13HOPRST_DIV11COOWCOPR_S13-319ALDIREFIDIEXASRE">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission may hear any dispute between or among parties.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A party must not file a dispute with the Commission until the party makes a good faith attempt to exhaust all procedures or remedies provided in the association documents.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>After a community association finds that a dispute exists, the association must notify the other parties of their rights to file the dispute with the Commission. The association must not take any action to enforce or implement its decision for 14 days after it notifies the other parties of their rights.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except as provided in Section 13-320, when a dispute is filed with the Commission, a community association must not take any action to enforce or implement the association's decision, other than filing a civil action under subsection (f), until the process under this Division is completed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>Any party may file a civil action arising out of an association document or a law regulating the association's powers and procedures at any time. The court may stay all proceedings for at least 90 days after the court is notified that a dispute has been properly filed under this Division so that a hearing under Section 13-325 may be completed. Whether or not a stay is issued, the court may hear the action de novo only if a hearing panel assigned to the dispute has not issued a decision under Section 13-325.</text>
  </level>
</section>
