A Westchester County cooperative apartment corporation decided to prohibit washing machines in apartments by creating a new House Rule.
The basis for the new rule was a finding by the Board that the plumbing system in the building was “not sufficiently robust” to handle washing machines. The co-op’s Board of Directors, however, took no steps to demand that shareholders remove any existing washing machines from their units. Implicitly, the Board appeared to have granted these shareholders some form of “grandfather” status.
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