Civil Code Meetings
Member Attendance and Comment
Chapter 6 · Association Governance · Board Meeting
Text current as of 2026-07-07 · Last amended by AB 805, eff. 2014-01-01
The code says CIV §4925
(a) Any member may attend board meetings, except when the board adjourns to, or meets solely in, executive session. As specified in subdivision (b) of Section 4090, a member of the association shall be entitled to attend a teleconference meeting or the portion of a teleconference meeting that is open to members, and that meeting or portion of the meeting shall be audible to the members in a location specified in the notice of the meeting.
(b) The board shall permit any member to speak at any meeting of the association or the board, except for meetings of the board held in executive session. A reasonable time limit for all members of the association to speak to the board or before a meeting of the association shall be established by the board.
(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 180, Sec. 2. (AB 805) Effective January 1, 2013. Operative January 1, 2014, by Sec. 3 of Ch. 180.)
How courts have read this
Editorial summaries — not the court’s words.
- Damon v. Ocean Hills Journalism Club 85 Cal. App. 4th 468 · 2000 HOA board meetings and community newsletters are anti-SLAPP public forums.
decided before the current text (eff. 2014-01-01, AB 805)
- SB Liberty v. Isla Verde Asso. 215 Cal. App. 4th 1553 · 2013 A member cannot hand its board-meeting attendance right to a nonmember.
decided before the current text (eff. 2014-01-01, AB 805)
- LNSU 1, LLC v. Alta Del Mar Coastal Collection Community Assn. 94 Cal. App. 5th 1050 · 2023 Pre-meeting director emails are not Open Meeting Act board meetings.
mentioned in passing