The manager has the right and the obligation to preserve the common areas and to preserve the grounds of the building and its attached facilities in the case prescribed in Article 21 (each of these is referred to as a "common area or co-owned grounds or attached facilities" in the following paragraph), to implement meeting resolutions, and to engage in the acts specified in the bylaws.
In connection with their duties (including claims for and the receipt of insurance money based on a non-life insurance contract under the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (6) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 21), as well as compensation for damages arising in connection with a common area or co-owned grounds or attached facilities and monies to be returned due to unjust enrichment (hereinafter referred to as "insurance money, etc." in this Article and Article 47); the same applies in paragraph (4)), the manager acts as the agent of the unit owners (or, with regard to claims for and the receipt of insurance money, etc., of the persons who hold the right to claim insurance money, etc. (limited to unit owners or persons who were unit owners (excluding persons who were unit owners and who have manifested an intention to the contrary in writing or by electronic or magnetic means (meaning the means of using an electronic data processing system or of making use of information and communications technology that is specified by Ministry of Justice Order; the same applies hereinafter))); hereinafter the same applies in this Article and Article 47); the same applies in that paragraph).
管理者は、その職務（第十八条第六項（第二十一条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による損害保険契約に基づく保険金並びに共用部分等について生じた損害賠償金及び不当利得による返還金（以下この条及び第四十七条において「保険金等」という。）の請求及び受領を含む。第四項において同じ。）に関し、区分所有者（保険金等の請求及び受領にあつては、保険金等の請求権を有する者（区分所有者又は区分所有者であつた者（書面又は電磁的方法（電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であつて法務省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）による別段の意思表示をした区分所有者であつた者を除く。）に限る。以下この条及び第四十七条において同じ。）。同項において同じ。）を代理する。
A limitation on a manager's authority to act as agent may not be asserted against a third party in good faith.
管理者の代理権に加えた制限は、善意の第三者に対抗することができない。
Pursuant to the provisions of the bylaws or meeting resolutions, the manager may be named as plaintiff or defendant for a unit owner, in connection with their duties.
管理者は、規約又は集会の決議により、その職務に関し、区分所有者のために、原告又は被告となることができる。
In the cases set forth in the following items, the manager must notify the persons specified in the respective items of this without delay. In such a case, the provisions of Article 35, paragraphs (2) through (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the notice to unit owners.
管理者は、次の各号に掲げるときは、遅滞なく、それぞれ当該各号に定める者にその旨を通知しなければならない。この場合における区分所有者に対する通知については、第三十五条第二項から第四項までの規定を準用する。
if the manager has been named as plaintiff or defendant in connection with their duties pursuant to the bylaws under the preceding paragraph: the unit owners;
if the manager has been named as plaintiff or defendant in connection with claims for and the receipt of insurance money, etc. pursuant to the bylaws under the preceding paragraph: the persons who hold the right to claim insurance money, etc.; and
if the manager has been named as plaintiff or defendant in connection with claims for and the receipt of insurance money, etc. pursuant to a meeting resolution under the preceding paragraph: the persons who hold the right to claim insurance money, etc. (excluding unit owners).