West Virginia Code 36-9-11 – Recordkeeping by seller
Each seller of a time-sharing plan shall maintain among its business records the following:
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 36-9-11
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract: means any agreement conferring the rights and obligations of the time-sharing plan on the purchaser. See West Virginia Code 36-9-4
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Seller: means any developer or any other person, or agent or employee thereof, who is offering time-share periods for sale to the public in the ordinary course of business, except a person who has acquired a time-share period for his own occupancy and later offers it for resale. See West Virginia Code 36-9-4
- Time-share period: means that period of time when a purchaser of a time-sharing plan is entitled to the possession and use of the accommodations or facilities, or both, of a time-sharing plan. See West Virginia Code 36-9-4
- Time-sharing plan: means any arrangement, plan, scheme or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership, agreement, tenancy in common, sale, lease, deed, rental agreement, license or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, whereby a purchaser, in exchange for a consideration receives a right to use accommodations or facilities, or both, for a specific period of time less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years, and which extends for a period of more than three years. See West Virginia Code 36-9-4
(a) A copy of each contract for the sale of a time-share period, which contract has not been canceled. If fee title is being conveyed, the seller is required to retain a copy of the contract only until a deed of conveyance is recorded in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county wherein the plan is located; and
(b) A list of all salespersons of the seller and their last known addresses. The names and addresses of such salespersons whose employments terminate shall be retained for three years after termination of employment. If the seller has a contract with any entity not owned or controlled by the seller for the sale of the time-sharing plan, that entity shall be responsible for maintaining a record of current employees involved in the sale of the time-sharing plan and a record of any former employees involved in the sale of such plan within the previous three years.