Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.9.1

  • Developer: means the person, or any successor or assignee of such person, who creates the timeshare plan or who is in the business of making sales of timeshare interests which it owns or purports to own. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare interest: means an ownership "timeshare interest" a lease timeshare interest, a timeshare estate, and a timeshare use unless expressly provided otherwise and includes any of the following:

    (a)  A "timeshare estate" which is the right to occupy a timeshare property, coupled with present ownership or some right to future ownership in a timeshare property or a specified portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2

  • Timeshare plan: means any arrangement, plan, scheme, or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, sale, lease, license, other act of conveyance, or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, whereby 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 Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2

The developer shall have the duty to supervise, manage, and control all aspects of the offering of the timeshare plan, including but not limited to promotion, advertising, contracting, and closing.  The developer shall have responsibility for each timeshare plan approved by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission and for the actions of any timeshare interest sales person utilized by the developer in the offering or selling of any registered timeshare plan.  Any violation of this Part which occurs during the offering activities shall be deemed to be a violation by the developer as well as by the timeshare interest salesperson or whoever actually committed such violation.

Acts 2003, No. 978, §1.