No health spa shall charge any initiation fee in connection with a health spa contract of less than 12 months’ duration. For all health spa contracts of 3 months or less duration, all rights of renewal which extend the membership beyond the first 3 months shall be offered and sold at a contract price per month for each renewal period not greater than the contract price per month for the initial membership period.

66 Del. Laws, c. 395, § ?1;

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4209

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract price: means the sum of the initiation fee, if any, and all fees except interest required by the health spa contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
  • Health spa: includes any person, firm, corporation, organization, club or association engaged in the sale of memberships in a program of physical exercise, physical fitness, weight control or figure reduction, which offers the use of 1 or more of the following: a whirlpool, weight lifting room, steam room, exercising room or exercising or weight loss device. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
  • Initiation fee: means a nonrecurring fee charged at or near the beginning of a health spa membership, and includes all fees or charges not a part of the monthly fee. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4202
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
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