CAM > License Requirements

Florida law provides that any person who performs management services requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment, and managerial skill, when done for remuneration and when the association or associations being managed, contains more than 10 units or has an annual budget, or budgets, in excess of $100,000, must be licensed as a Community Association Manager.

Specific practices requiring a CAM license include: controlling or disbursing association funds, preparing budgets or other financial documents for a community association, assisting in the noticing, or conducting of community association meetings, coordinating maintenance for the residential development and other day to day services involved in the operation of a community association.

The board of directors of a community association has the obligation to maintain, manage, and operate the community association. The law does not require the association to hire a manager, but does set forth licensing requirements if the association chooses to hire a manager.

The manager acts as an agent for the board of directors of the community association by which he/she is hired. The manager will take direction from the board regarding maintenance, repair and replacement of common property, and assistance in enforcement of the governing documents. The board may delegate its authority to the manager to act on its behalf in certain instances. However, the board may never delegate its responsibility for making decisions to the manager or anyone else.

Volunteer board members, who are not compensated, do not need to be licensed to perform their duties.

The CAM license is not required for management of buildings such as office buildings, shopping centers, or apartment buildings, which are not Community Associations. (Individuals engaged in non-association "property management" may be required to have a Real Estate license).

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