Arizona Laws 32-2197.22
A. Sections 44-1841 and 44-1842 do not apply to a timeshare plan that has been issued a timeshare public report pursuant to this article or exempted by special order of the commissioner.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 32-2197.22
- Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Advertisement: means any written, oral or electronic communication that is directed to or targeted to persons in this state and that contains a promotion, inducement, premium or offer to sell a timeshare plan, including brochures, pamphlets, radio and television scripts, electronic media, telephone and direct mail solicitations and other means of promotions. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Advertising: means attempting by publication, dissemination, exhibition, solicitation or circulation, oral or written, or for broadcast on radio or television to induce directly or indirectly any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in lands subject to this chapter, including the land sales contract to be used and any photographs, drawings or artist's presentations of physical conditions or facilities existing or to exist on the property. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Assessment: means the share of funds required for the payment of common expenses that the managing entity assesses periodically against each purchaser. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Association: means any organized body consisting of the purchasers of interests in a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Broker: when used without modification, means a person who is licensed as a broker under this chapter or who is required to be licensed as a broker under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Commissioner: means the state real estate commissioner. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Developer: means either of the following:
(a) Any person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity, other than a sales agent, that creates a timeshare plan or is in the business of selling timeshare interests or employs sales agents to sell timeshare interests. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Development: means any division, proposed division or use of real property that the department has authority to regulate, including subdivided and unsubdivided lands, cemeteries, condominiums, timeshares, membership campgrounds and stock cooperatives. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Exchange company: means any person owning or operating or both owning and operating an exchange program. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Exchange program: means any method, arrangement or procedure for the voluntary exchange of timeshare interests or other property interests. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Managing entity: means the association or other person that undertakes the duties, responsibilities and obligations of the management of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Member: means a member of the real estate advisory board. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Person: means a natural person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, estate, trust, federal or state government, political subdivision or other legal entity or any combination of these entities. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Promotion: means a plan or device, including one involving the possibility of a prospective purchaser receiving a vacation, discount vacation, gift or prize, used by a developer or the developer's employee, or on the developer's behalf by an agent or the agent's employee, an independent contractor or the independent contractor's employee in connection with the offering and sale of timeshare interests in a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Purchase agreement: means a document that legally obligates a person to sell or buy a timeshare interest. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Purchaser: means any person, other than a developer, who, by means of a voluntary transfer, acquires a legal or equitable interest in a timeshare plan other than a security for an obligation. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Real estate: includes leasehold-interests and any estates in land as defined in Title 33, Chapter 2, articles 1 and 2, regardless of whether located in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-2101
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Timeshare interest: includes either a timeshare estate or a timeshare use. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Timeshare period: means the period of time when the purchaser of a timeshare plan is afforded the opportunity to use the accommodations of a timeshare plan. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Timeshare plan: means any arrangement, plan or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, sale, lease, deed, license or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, in which a purchaser, in exchange for consideration, receives ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a period of time less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- Timeshare property: means one or more accommodations subject to the same timeshare instrument, together with any other property or rights to property appurtenant to those accommodations. See Arizona Laws 32-2197
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
B. A person is exempt from this article if any of the following applies:
1. The person is either an owner of a timeshare interest or a real estate broker who represents an owner of a timeshare interest if the owner acquired the timeshare interest for the owner’s own use and occupancy and offers it for resale.
2. The person is a managing entity or an association or a designated agent of a managing entity or association if all of the following apply:
(a) The entity or association is not a developer of a timeshare plan.
(b) The person solely acts as an association or is under a contract with an association to offer or sell a timeshare interest transferred to the association through foreclosure, deed or gratuitous transfer if done in the regular course of, or incident to, the management of the association for the management’s account in the timeshare plan.
(c) The managing entity or the association provides to each purchaser who is not an existing owner in the timeshare plan, the following disclosures before execution of the purchase agreement:
(i) The name and address of the timeshare plan and of the managing entity of the timeshare plan.
(ii) The following statement in conspicuous type located before the disclosure required by item (vi) of this subdivision:
The current year’s assessment for common expenses allocable to the timeshare interest you are purchasing is $_______. This assessment, which may be increased periodically by the managing entity of the timeshare plan, is payable in full each year on or before ________. This assessment (includes/does not include) yearly ad valorem real estate taxes that (are/are not) billed and collected separately.
(iii) If ad valorem real property taxes are not included in the current year’s assessment for common expenses, the following statement must be in conspicuous type located immediately after the disclosure required by item (ii) of this subdivision:
The most recent annual assessment for ad valorem real estate taxes for the timeshare interest you are purchasing is $______.
(iv) If there are any delinquent assessments for common expenses or ad valorem taxes outstanding with respect to the timeshare interest in question, the following statement must be in conspicuous type located immediately after the disclosure required by items (ii) and (iii) of this subdivision:
A delinquency in the amount of $_______ for unpaid common expenses or ad valorem taxes currently exists with respect to the timeshare interest you are purchasing, together with a per diem charge of $_______ for interest and late charges.
(v) The following statement in conspicuous type located immediately after the disclosure required by items (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this subdivision:
Each owner is personally liable for the payment of the owner’s assessments for common expenses, and failure to timely pay these assessments may result in restriction or loss of your use and ownership rights. There are many important documents relating to the timeshare plan that you should review before purchasing a timeshare interest, copies of which are available from the association or the managing entity on request, including the declaration of condominium or covenants and restrictions, the association articles and bylaws, the current year’s operating and reserve budgets and any rules affecting the use of timeshare plan accommodations and facilities.
(vi) The year in which the purchaser will first be entitled to occupancy or use of a timeshare period associated with the timeshare interest that is the subject of the resale purchase agreement.
3. The person offers a timeshare plan in a national publication or by electronic media, as determined by the commissioner or as provided by rule, that is not directed to or targeted to any individual located in the state. For purposes of this paragraph, "national publication" or "electronic media" means publications or media circulated, distributed and broadcast on a regional or national basis to residents of the United States and foreign countries. National publication or electronic media includes radio, newspapers, television, the internet and other media that is not intentionally directed to or targeted to individuals located in this state. The sending of a direct solicitation or electronic mail message to the internet address of an individual known to be located in this state is not an offer through a national publication or electronic media.
4. The person has acquired twelve or more timeshare interests in one or more voluntary or involuntary transactions and subsequently conveys, assigns or transfers twelve or more of the timeshare interests received to a single purchaser in a single transaction during the preceding twelve month period.
C. The following are exempt communications from the provisions of this article:
1. Any stockholder communication including an annual report or interim financial report, proxy material, a registration statement, a securities prospectus, a registration, a property report or other material required to be delivered to a prospective purchaser by an agency of any state or the federal government.
2. Any oral or written statement disseminated by a developer to broadcast or print media, other than paid advertising or promotional material, regarding plans for the acquisition or development of timeshare property. Any rebroadcast or any other dissemination of such oral statements to a prospective purchaser by a seller in any manner or any distribution of copies of newspaper or magazine articles or press releases or any other dissemination of written statements to a prospective purchaser by a seller in any manner constitutes an advertisement and is not an exempt communication.
3. Any advertisement or promotion in any medium to the general public if the advertisement or promotion clearly states that it is not an offer in any jurisdiction in which any applicable registration requirements have not been fully satisfied.
4. Any audio, written or visual publication or material relating to the availability of any accommodations for transient rental if a sales presentation is not a requirement for the availability of the accommodations and if the failure of any transient renter to take a tour of a timeshare property or attend a sales presentation does not result in any reduction in the level of services that would otherwise be available to the transient renter.
5. Any billboard or other sign that is affixed to real or personal property and that is not disseminated by other than visual means to any prospective purchaser and that does not suggest or invite any action on the part of the prospective purchaser.
D. The following communications are exempt from this article if the communications are delivered to any person who has previously executed a contract for the purchase of or is an existing owner of a timeshare interest in a timeshare plan:
1. Any communication addressed to and relating to the account of any person who has previously executed a contract for the sale or purchase of a timeshare interest in a timeshare plan relating to the communication.
2. Any audio, written or visual publication or material relating to an exchange company or exchange program provided to an existing member of the exchange company or exchange program.
3. Any communication by a developer to encourage a person who has previously acquired a timeshare interest from the developer to acquire additional use or occupancy rights or benefits or additional timeshare interests offered by the same developer.