Schedule "C" of your Corporation's Declaration should provide a "bare bones" description of a standard unit. In my personal view, a "Standard Unit By-law" more clearly defines responsibility for coverage. There are recent court rulings on responsibility to repair a unit after damage. In one particular instance, a unit Owner had her carpet replaced with hardwood floors. After suffering water damage, the unit Owner insisted that the Corporation was responsible for the cost of repairing or replacing the hardwood flooring in her unit. The Corporation maintained that the hardwood flooring installed by the unit Owner was an "improvement" over the carpet which was originally in the unit. The matter came before the court and the court held that in the absence of a description of a standard unit (Standard Unit By-law) the hardwood flooring could not be considered an improvement and therefore the Corporation was responsible for repair or replacement.
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