Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60

§3610 Relationship of Statutory Provisions to State and Local Laws

Title 15 › Chapter 62— CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSION PROTECTION AND ABUSE RELIEF › § 3610

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

States and local governments can make and enforce laws about condominiums, cooperatives, or conversion projects as long as those laws do not conflict with the chapter’s consumer-protection rules. If a state or local government, within three years after October 8, 1980, passed a law saying the chapter does not apply there, then the chapter’s provisions do not apply in that area—except for section 3608 and the lease-related ban in section 3609 when a claim can be made under section 3608.

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Title 15, §3610

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Nothing in this chapter may be construed to prevent or limit the authority of any State or local government to enact and enforce any law, ordinance, or code with regard to any condominium, cooperative, or conversion project, if such law, ordinance, or code does not abridge, deny, or contravene any standard for consumer protection established under this chapter. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the provisions of this chapter, except for the application of section 3608 of this title and the prohibition included in section 3609 of this title as it relates to a lease with respect to which a cause of action may be established under section 3608 of this title, shall not apply in the case of any State or local government which has the authority to enact and enforce such a law, ordinance, or code, if, during the three-year period following October 8, 1980, such State or local government enacts a law, ordinance, or code, or amendments thereto, stating in substance that such provisions of this chapter shall not apply in that State or local government jurisdiction.

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15 U.S.C. § 3610

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60