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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="11B-113.1" title_number="11B" title_name="Maryland Homeowners Association Act" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Notwithstanding language contained in the governing documents of a homeowners association, the homeowners association may provide notice of a meeting or deliver information to a lot owner by electronic transmission if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The board of directors or other governing body of the homeowners association gives the homeowners association the authority to provide notice of a meeting or deliver information by electronic transmission;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The lot owner gives the homeowners association prior written authorization to provide notice of a meeting or deliver information by electronic transmission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An officer or agent of the homeowners association certifies in writing that the homeowners association has provided notice of a meeting or delivered material or information as authorized by the lot owner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notice or delivery by electronic transmission shall be considered ineffective if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The homeowners association is unable to deliver two consecutive notices; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The inability to deliver the electronic transmission becomes known to the person responsible for sending the electronic transmission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The inadvertent failure to deliver notice by electronic transmission does not invalidate any meeting or other action.</text>
  </level>
</section>
