HRS §514B-35
What counts as part of your condo unit
This section explains which parts of a condo building belong to your unit and which are shared. Finished surfaces inside your walls, floors, or ceilings are yours, but the structure behind them is common. Things like balconies, patios, and exterior doors are limited common elements for your unit only.
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The statute, as written — Unit boundaries
Except as provided by the declaration: (1) If walls, floors, or ceilings are designated as boundaries of a unit, all lath, furring, wallboard, plasterboard, plaster, paneling, tiles, wallpaper, paint, finished flooring, and any other materials constituting any part of the finished surfaces thereof are a part of the unit, and all other portions of the walls, floors, or ceilings, are a part of the common elements; (2) If any chute, flue, duct, wire, conduit, or any other fixture lies partially within and partially outside the designated boundaries of a unit, any portion thereof serving only that unit is a limited common element appurtenant solely to that unit, and any portion thereof serving more than one unit or any portion of the common elements is a part of the common elements; (3) Subject to paragraph (2), all spaces, interior non-loadbearing partitions, and other fixtures and improvements within the boundaries of a unit are a part of the unit; and (4) Any shutters, awnings, window boxes, doorsteps, stoops, porches, balconies, lanais, patios, and all exterior doors and windows or other fixtures designed to serve a single unit, but are located outside the unit's boundaries, are limited common elements appurtenant exclusively to that unit.
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