CHAPTER 2. DEFINITIONS
IC 32-32-2
Chapter 2. Definitions
IC 32-32-2-1
Applicability of definitions
Sec. 1. The definitions in this chapter apply throughout this
article.
As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.17.
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"Camping club" defined
Sec. 2. "Camping club" means any enterprise, other than one that
is tax exempt under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, that
has as its primary purpose camping or outdoor recreation that
involves or will involve camping sites.
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"Camping club member" defined
Sec. 3. "Camping club member" means any person, other than the
developer or lender, who purchases a camping club membership.
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"Camping club membership" defined
Sec. 4. (a) "Camping club membership" means an agreement
evidencing a purchaser's title to, interest in, or right or license to use
for more than thirty (30) days the camping or outdoor recreation
facilities of a camping club.
(b) The term does not include an agreement of a camping or
outdoor recreation facility that expires within three hundred
sixty-five (365) days after the execution date of the agreement.
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"Camping site" defined
Sec. 5. "Camping site" means a space that:
(1) is designed and promoted for the purpose of locating a
trailer, tent, tent trailer, pickup camper, or other similar device
used for land based portable housing; and
(2) is the subject of a camping club membership.
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"Developer" defined
Sec. 6. "Developer" means any person who engages in the
business of creating or selling its own time shares or camping club
memberships.
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"Director" defined
Sec. 7. "Director" refers to the director of the division appointed
under IC 4-6-9-2.
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"Division" defined
Sec. 8. "Division" refers to the consumer protection division of
the office of the attorney general created by IC 4-6-9-1.
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"Exchange company" defined
Sec. 9. "Exchange company" means any person owning or
operating an exchange program.
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"Exchange program" defined
Sec. 10. (a) "Exchange program" means any arrangement allowing
owners to exchange occupancy rights with persons owning other
time shares or camping club memberships.
(b) The term does not include an arrangement in which all of the
occupancy rights that may be exchanged are in the same time share
property or camping site.
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"Offer" defined
Sec. 11. "Offer" means any advertised inducement, solicitation,
or attempt to encourage any person to acquire a time share or
camping club membership other than as security for an obligation.
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"Participant" defined
Sec. 12. "Participant" means any person who, by means of a
verbal or written purchase, exchange, or leasing agreement, acquires
a right to occupy a time share unit from a developer, purchaser,
exchange company, rental or management company, or any other
person or organization.
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"Person" defined
Sec. 13. "Person" means a natural person, a corporation, a
government, a governmental subdivision or agency, a business trust,
an estate, a trust, a partnership, an association, a joint venture, or
another legal or commercial entity.
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"Project" defined
Sec. 14. "Project" means the real property, which must contain
more than one (1) unit, in which time shares or camping sites are
created by a single instrument or set of instruments.
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"Project manager" defined
Sec. 15. "Project manager" means any person:
(1) who coordinates the sale of time shares or camping club
memberships; and
(2) to whom sales agents and representatives are responsible.
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"Purchaser" defined
Sec. 16. "Purchaser" means any person, other than the developer
or lender, who purchases a time share or camping club membership.
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"Representative" defined
Sec. 17. (a) "Representative" means a person who is not a seller
and who, on behalf of a developer, induces other persons to attend a
sales presentation.
(b) The term does not include a person who only performs clerical
tasks, arranges appointments set up by others, or prepares or
distributes promotional materials.
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"Seller" defined
Sec. 18. "Seller" means a developer or any other person or agent
or employee of a developer who offers time shares or camping club
memberships to the public.
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"Substantially completed" defined
Sec. 19. "Substantially completed" means that:
(1) all roadways, utilities, amenities, furnishings, appliances,
structural components, and mechanical systems of buildings and
premises are completed and provided as represented in the time
share instrument or agreement or camping club membership
agreement; and
(2) the premises are ready for occupancy and the proper
governmental authority has caused to be issued a certificate of
occupancy, if a certificate of occupancy is required.
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"Time share" defined
Sec. 20. "Time share" means the right to use and occupy a unit on
a periodic basis according to an arrangement allocating this right
among various time share participants.
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"Time share instrument" defined
Sec. 21. "Time share instrument" means any document creating
or regulating time shares, excluding any law, ordinance, or
governmental regulation.
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"Time share participant" defined
Sec. 22. "Time share participant" has the meaning set forth in
section 12 of this chapter.
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"Unit" defined
Sec. 23. "Unit" means each portion of a time share project or each
camping site that is designated for separate use.
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