Definition : Provisional director

Le promoteur, qui fait bien souvent office d'administrateur provisoire tant qu'il détient la majorité des voix d'une copropriété, devra éventuellement procéder à la passation des pouvoirs vers le futur conseil d'administration. Celui-ci sera élu à l'occasion d'une assemblée extraordinaire, laquelle doit être tenue quand ce même promoteur perd la majorité des voix dans l'immeuble. Dès la naissance de la copropriété, c'est-à-dire lorsque la déclaration de copropriété est publiée au Registre foncier du Québec,  l’équipe Therrien Couture Joli-Coeur offre de prendre en charge toutes les étapes relatives au démarrage du syndicat et à l’organisation complète de la première assemblée des copropriétaires au cours de laquelle on met fin à l’administration provisoire. Notre cabinet peut, dans le cadre de cette prestation de services, guider l'administrateur provisoire et les copropriétaires à travers chacune des étapes du démarrage de votre syndicat de copropriété, et vous donner tous les conseils nécessaires pour assurer un démarrage efficace de la copropriété.

The law regulates the liability of contractors and building professionals for any problem related to the quality of construction work. In this regard, the legislator has provided for a specific protection regime for divided co-ownership. Section 1081 of the Civil Code of Québec recognizes the legal interest of any syndicate of co-owners to assert the rights of all co-owners to correct defects that appear, in the short or long term. This could occur during the initial construction of the building, or during work carried out several years after its erection. In short, when problems affect the common portions, the syndicate benefits from several legal warranties. Among them is the one against latent defects, design or construction defects. These warranties are worth their weight in gold, because very often, the cost of the work to be carried out in a co-ownership can be substantial.

  From the first day of existence of the co-ownership, that is to say when its declaration of co-ownership is published in the Land Register of Quebec, the co-owners as one body constitute a “syndicate of co-owners”. This legal person must ensure the "preservation of the immovable and manage the common portions." To form this co-ownership several steps involving many protagonists are necessary.

The presence of a Board of Directors is mandatory in a co-ownership. It is the executive body of the syndicate and its legal representative. Its members act as the mandataries of the syndicate.

Expenses related to the maintenance and administration of the common portions of a co-ownerships start from its constitution as a legal person. It is therefore necessary that each co-ownership sets up, upon publication of the declaration of co-ownership, a Board of Directors to administer it. To ensure the star up of the syndicate, the developer usually designates in the declaration of co-ownership (by-laws of the immovable), one of its representatives to act as the provisional administrator of the syndicate.