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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="11A-101" title_number="11A" title_name="Maryland Real Estate Time-Sharing Act" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following terms have the meanings indicated, unless the context requires a different meaning.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Association” means a nonstock corporation consisting only of time-share estate owners formed according to Title 5, Subtitle 2 of the Corporations and Associations Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Commission” means the State Real Estate Commission.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Common elements” means all of a time-share project except for the time-share units located in the project.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Common expenses” means the costs of management and operation of the time-share project, maintenance of, and improvements to the common elements, maintenance of the units, and repair and replacement of personalty located in the project owned by the association.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Conversion building” means a building that at any time before the disposition of any time-share was occupied by any person for residential purposes.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Developer” means any person in the business of creating or disposing of that person’s time-shares in time-share projects.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Developer” does not include an association reselling time-shares acquired by the association:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Through foreclosure of a lien for nonpayment of assessments or other charges by a time-share owner as provided in § 11A-110 of this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>By deed in lieu of foreclosure from a time-share owner who is delinquent in payment of assessments or other charges as provided in § 11A-110 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Developer control period” is as defined in § 11A-106 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Exchange company” means any person operating an exchange program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Exchange program” means any arrangement for the exchange of occupancy rights of time-share owners.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Facility fees” means fees for recreational or other facilities charged on a use basis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Managing entity” means any person or association, including the developer, designated in or employed pursuant to a time-share instrument or project instrument to manage a time-share project.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Occupancy expenses” means costs occasioned by use of individual time-share units such as housekeeping or cleaning.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Project” means real property all or a portion of which is subject to a project instrument. A project may include units that are not time-share units.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Project instrument” means 1 or more recordable documents, by whatever name denominated, applying to a project and containing restrictions or covenants regulating the use, occupancy, enjoyment, or disposition of units or amenities in or other aspects of a time-share project.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Purchaser” means any person, other than a developer, who by means of a voluntary transfer acquires a legal or equitable interest in a time-share other than as security for an obligation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Sales contract” means any agreement transferring the rights and obligations of the time-share plan to the purchaser.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Time-share” means a time-share estate or time-share license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <text>“Time-share estate” means the ownership during separated time periods, over a period of at least 5 years, including renewal options, of a time-share unit or any of several time-share units, whether the ownership is a freehold estate, an estate for years, or an undivided interest.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="t">
    <text>“Time-share estate project” means that portion of the project set aside for the use and enjoyment by time-share purchasers as described in the time-share plan or time-share instrument, and as acquired by the time-share purchaser in the execution of a sales contract.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="u">
    <text>“Time-share expenses” means common expenses and occupancy expenses, but does not include facility fees.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="v">
    <text>“Time-share instrument” means a document that describes the time-share as provided in §§ 11A-103 and 11A-107 of this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="w">
    <text>“Time-share license” means a right to use or occupy 1 or more units or any of several units during 5 or more separated time periods over a period of at least 5 years, including renewal options, in a time-share project.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="x">
    <text>“Time-share plan” means any arrangement other than an exchange program, whether by membership, agreement, tenancy in common, sale, lease, license, or right to use agreement or by any other means, whereby a time-share purchaser, in exchange for a consideration, receives a time-share, and attendant rights and obligations.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="y">
    <text>“Time-share project” means that portion of the project set aside for the use and enjoyment by time-share purchasers as described in the time-share plan or time-share instrument, and as acquired by the time-share purchaser in the execution of a sales contract.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="z">
    <text>“Time-share unit” means a unit subject to a time-share plan.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="aa">
    <text>“Undivided interest” means ownership of an interest in a project in common with not fewer than 25 other purchasers or prospective purchasers, that entitles each owner to use or occupy 1 or more units or any of several units during 5 or more separated time periods over a period of at least 5 years, including renewal options, whether or not the exercise of the right to use or occupy depends upon the availability of any unit or units.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="bb">
    <text>“Unit” means real property, or a portion thereof, designated for separate use.</text>
  </level>
</section>
