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It is fair for an organization to make you do
something because you receive benefits from the
organization itself.
to those 10 unit owners, i.e. to operate the pool, and to charge each of
the 10 unit owners their proportionate share. So then, a person has his
unit and the benefit of using a portion of the property belonging to all
10 of the owners-the pool.
As a condominium law practitioner,
I am often asked by these directors to
enforce the rules and regulations. A
unit owner, chafing over a particularly
onerous rule concerning the hours
of pool operation, would ask, "What
gives the Board, and you by extension,
the right to tell me when and how I
can use the pool?" Well, I respond,
the rights come directly from the Declaration, and when you bought into
the condominium, under the Rhode
Island Condominium Act, you must
follow the rules of the condominium,
obligations which are put in place in
order that you may fairly be in a position to receive the benefits, i.e. use
of the pool. There is an exchange of
rights or benefits for obligations. It's
only fair.
"How does fairness come into
this?" I am asked. And this is where
equitable servitudes come in: Black's
Law Dictionary defines them as a
restriction on the use of land enforceable in a court of equity. That's legal
parlance for, you can go to court and
ask a judge to make another person do
something. But let's look at it in layman's terms. Equity generally means
to be fair about something. Servitude
means that you are required to do
something. Essentially, it comes down
to this: it is fair for an organization
(association) to make you do something because you receive benefits
from the organization itself. Broken

down even further, you have a pool
that you can use most of the time and
only have to pay one-tenth of the cost
to run it. In exchange, it is also fair to
have you serve under its rules, i.e. no
alcoholic beverages around the pool
apron, no parties after 10 p.m., etc.
It's fair to say that if you don't like
the rules existing to protect not just
you, but your fellow nine unit owner
neighbors, then perhaps you could
think about buying your own standalone house that is not a condominium,
and own and pay for your own pool. But

since for now you are in a condominium, it's only fair by the term equitable
servitude that you abide by the association's pool rules.
Since first encountering it in law
school, so long ago, I always liked the
way it sounded: equitable servitude.

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