Renewal of lift maintenance in apartment building
KK
(Querist) 01 March 2016
This query is : Resolved
Sir, we stay on the 4th floor of an apartment building in maharashtra. A lift is provided by the builder since 2007 and has been maintained via Lift AMC renewed on a yearly basis.
The present office bearers- Secretary, Chairman and Treasurer have finished a 3 year term and no one wants to take over the committee due to internal fights and groupism.
Last week a 90 yr old senior citizen on the third floor suffered a heart attack and was delay of an hour to carry her on a chair to the ground floor and reach hospital due to a non functional lift as the contract was not renewed.
After discussions, the office bearers washed their hands off the responsibility citing their term is over and they the no longer have authority to sign papers and cheques for AMC renewal. They had circulated an unsigned letter stating using lift at one's own risk. (although payment of watchman's salary, light and water bills etc continue as before through cash payments collected from members' monthly dues)
So 2-3 members volunteered to pay their monthly dues in advance as payment towards the Lift AMC.
Can the office bearers just handover to a member calling himself 'voluntary secretary' and wash their hands off the responsibilities towards society matters without an official resignation meeting and handover to new committee even though their 3 year term is over?
Who should sign the lift contract where it says 'Authority sign' as they are refusing to sign any papers?
Adv. Yogen Kakade
(Expert) 01 March 2016
Apply to the Society registration authority to look into the matter.
Rajendra K Goyal
(Expert) 01 March 2016
Try to have amicable settlement for the common facility.
Refer bye-laws of the society for procedure to form new office bearers.
