A. This chapter shall have exclusive jurisdiction and shall apply to any product offering or disposition made within the Commonwealth after July 1, 1985, in a time-share project located within the Commonwealth. Sections 55.1-2200, 55.1-2201, 55.1-2202, 55.1-2203, 55.1-2204, 55.1-2206, 55.1-2210, 55.1-2211, 55.1-2213, 55.1-2215, 55.1-2216, 55.1-2220, 55.1-2227, 55.1-2229, 55.1-2230, 55.1-2232, 55.1-2233, 55.1-2237, and 55.1-2252 shall apply to a time-share project within the Commonwealth that was created prior to July 1, 1985.
B. This chapter shall not affect rights or obligations created by preexisting provisions of any time-share instrument that transfers an estate or interest in real property.
C. This chapter shall apply to any product offering or disposition in a time-share project located outside the Commonwealth and offered for sale in the Commonwealth with the exception that Articles 2 (§ 55.1-2207 et seq.), 3 (§ 55.1-2217 et seq.), and 4 (§ 55.1-2235 et seq.) shall apply only to the extent permitted by the laws of the situs.
D. This chapter shall apply to any product offering or disposition in a time-share program, and offered for sale in the Commonwealth, created under a situs time-sharing law in which the time-share interests in the time-share program are either direct or indirect beneficial interests in a trust created pursuant to the situs time-sharing law or other applicable law of the situs.
Code 1950, § 55-361; 1981, c. 462; 1983, c. 59; 1985, c. 517, § 55-361.1; 1986, c. 359; 1989, c. 637; 1991, c. 704; 1994, c. 580; 2019, c. 712; 2020, c. 1011.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 22 - Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act
§ 55.1-2202. Administrative agency
§ 55.1-2203. Status of time-share estates with respect to real property interests
§ 55.1-2204. Applicability of local ordinances, regulations, and building codes
§ 55.1-2206. Severability of provisions of time-share instruments
§ 55.1-2207. Time-sharing permitted
§ 55.1-2209. Time-share instrument for time-share estate project
§ 55.1-2210. Developer control in time-share estate program
§ 55.1-2211. Time-share estate owners' association control liens
§ 55.1-2212. Time-share owners' association books and records; meetings; use of email
§ 55.1-2213. Time-share estate owners' association annual report
§ 55.1-2214. Time-share instrument for project
§ 55.1-2216. Termination of certain time-shares
§ 55.1-2217. Public offering statement
§ 55.1-2218. Certain advertising practices regulated
§ 55.1-2219. Exchange programs
§ 55.1-2220. Escrow of deposits; use of corporate surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit
§ 55.1-2221. Purchaser's rights of cancellation
§ 55.1-2222. Possibility of reverter
§ 55.1-2223. Recording and delivery of deed
§ 55.1-2224. Liability limited; liability actions prohibited
§ 55.1-2226. Buyer's Acknowledgment
§ 55.1-2227. Resale of time-shares
§ 55.1-2228. Required resale disclosures
§ 55.1-2231. Statute of limitations; actions; limitation on rescission rights
§ 55.1-2233. Financial records
§ 55.1-2234. Developer's obligation to complete
§ 55.1-2235. Financing of time-share programs
§ 55.1-2236. Purchaser's rights under developer's foreclosure
§ 55.1-2237. Protection of lien holder
§ 55.1-2238. Registration of time-share program required
§ 55.1-2239. Application for registration
§ 55.1-2241. Receipt of application; effectiveness of registration
§ 55.1-2242. Annual report; amendments
§ 55.1-2243. Termination of registration
§ 55.1-2244. Registration required for time-share resellers; exemptions; prohibited practices
§ 55.1-2245. Recordkeeping by resellers
§ 55.1-2246. Alternative purchase; registration
§ 55.1-2247. General powers and duties of Board
§ 55.1-2248. Cancellation of cease and desist order; reinstatement of registration of developer
§ 55.1-2249. Board regulation of public offering statement