(a) A foreign time share plan may obtain an exemption from the requirements of this chapter as provided in this section.

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-5.5

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Developer: means any person that creates a time sharing plan or is in the business of selling time share units. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-1
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-1
  • Person: includes an individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, association, business, trust, or any organized group of persons or legal entities, or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-1
  • Purchaser: means any person who has contracted to acquire a time share interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-1
  • Time share plan: means any plan or program in which the use, occupancy, or possession of one or more time share units circulates among various persons for less than a sixty-day period in any year, for any occupant. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-1
  • Time share use plan: means any arrangement, excluding normal hotel operations, whether by membership agreement, lease, rental agreement, license, use agreement, security or other means, whereby the purchaser receives a right to use accommodations or facilities, or both, in a time share unit for a specific or discernible period by temporal division, but does not receive an ownership interest. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 514E-1
(b) The developer of a foreign time share plan shall pay an exemption fee of $100 and file the following minimum information pertaining to the foreign time share plan with the director:

(1) The name and address of the foreign time share plan;
(2) The name and address of the developer and seller of the foreign time share plan, if any;
(3) The name and registration number of the time share plan located in Hawaii; provided that the registration shall be active at the time of filing under this subsection; and
(4) The duration of the foreign time share plan.
(c) Time share interests that are part of a foreign time share plan exempt under this section shall not be resold in the United States.
(d) The developer of a foreign time share plan exempt under this section shall not subject time share interests or units in the foreign time share plan that are located in Hawaii to blanket liens.
(e) The contract to purchase an interest in a foreign time share plan exempt under this section shall contain the following disclosure in conspicuous type immediately above the space provided for the purchaser‘s signature:

“THE OFFERING AND OPERATION OF THIS TIME SHARE PLAN OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS EXEMPT FROM REGULATION UNDER HAWAII LAW, AND ANY SUCH PURCHASE AND OPERATION OF THIS TIME SHARE PLAN IS NOT PROTECTED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. NO RESALE OF INTERESTS IN THIS TIME SHARE PLAN MAY BE MADE BY ANY PERSON WITHIN THE JURISDICTIONAL LIMITS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF ANY ACCOMMODATIONS OR FACILITIES LOCATED IN HAWAII, HOWEVER, ARE SUBJECT TO HAWAII LAW, AND MAY GIVE RISE TO AN ENFORCEMENT ACTION REGARDLESS OF WHERE THE OFFER WAS MADE.”

(f) All promotional literature and other printed or written material used in connection with the sale of interests in a foreign time share plan exempt under this section shall include the following caption:

“This time share plan is exempt from registration under Hawaii law and, therefore, the purchase and operation of this time share plan is not protected by the laws of the State of Hawaii.”

(g) For the purposes of this section, “foreign time share plan” means a time share use plan that:

(1) Contains time share interests or units located in Hawaii that are part of a Hawaii time share plan; and
(2) Is offered and sold solely outside the jurisdictional limits of the United States.
(h) Failure by the developer to abide by the requirements for the exemption shall result in the loss of the exemption and shall require registration under this chapter.