Are the glass of the windows on a condo the owners or association responsibility?

Read your governing documents to determine who owns the 'Windows'.

Often the term 'Windows' is undefined there, which can lead to confusion when one lists the components of a window. For example, who owns the window...:

• Glass
• Sash
• Frame
• Screen
• Well
• Treatment
• Lock
• Gas
• And so forth

This means that until the board adopts a resolution that defines the window elements, any repair or replacement of Windows can be problematic.

Best practices dictate, however, that based on the architectural uniformity guidelines -- which also mean ease of bulk repair or replacement, any accident involving a window must be repaired using the most common sense.

If, for example, the window pane is broken, the association can replace the pane and bill the owner, if the owner's indoor Baseball game was the cause of the accident.

If the pane is a double-glass, gas-infused pane, it cannot be replaced with a single pane, and may require that the whole glass encasement be replaced.