(A) An initial filing fee of ten dollars per each seven-day use availability, but not exceeding a maximum initial filing fee of five hundred dollars, must accompany an application for registration of a vacation time sharing plan. Upon amending an existing registration to add interests in a vacation time sharing plan, a filing fee of five dollars for each seven-day use availability added by the amendment, but not exceeding a maximum filing fee of two hundred fifty dollars, must be submitted. The annual vacation time sharing plan renewal fee is two hundred fifty dollars.
(B) All books, files, accounts, and other documents pertaining to the advertisement and sale of vacation time sharing plans located outside the State filed with the commission are subject to examination by the commission and the examinee shall pay a fee for each examiner employed to make such examination of fifty dollars per day or fraction of it, plus the actual expenses, including the cost of transportation of the examiner, while he is absent from his office for purposes of conducting the examination.
(C) The commission shall retain fees and other funds that come into its possession to use to defray expenses in the administration and enforcement of this chapter.
(D) If the commission determines that the registration, sale, or operation of a vacation time sharing plan violates this chapter in a manner that indicates bad faith or dishonesty, the commission, after notice and hearing, may assess all reasonable costs of investigation and prosecution of those violations.
HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 179, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 385, Section 46; 2003 Act No. 84, Section 1.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 27 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 32 - Vacation Time Sharing Plans
Section 27-32-10. Definitions.
Section 27-32-30. Materials to be kept among business records of seller of plans.
Section 27-32-40. Furnishing copy of contract to purchaser; terms thereof.
Section 27-32-50. Request to cancel contract.
Section 27-32-55. Vacation time sharing resale services; written contract; and other requirements.
Section 27-32-60. Refund upon cancellation; escrow account.
Section 27-32-70. Misrepresentation of right to cancel.
Section 27-32-80. Transfer of seller's interest in plan or facilities to third party.
Section 27-32-100. Public offering statements; contents.
Section 27-32-110. Prohibited practices.
Section 27-32-115. Finder's fees; limitations on finder's activities.
Section 27-32-120. Penalties for violation of chapter; effect on contract.
Section 27-32-130. Enforcement and implementation of chapter; regulations.
Section 27-32-160. Grants in aid and contracts with similar agencies to further objectives.
Section 27-32-170. Proceeds from sale or exchange exempt from sales tax.
Section 27-32-190. Registration of plans; powers of the commission.
Section 27-32-200. Vacation Time Sharing Recovery Fund.
Section 27-32-210. Recovery from fund; conditions.
Section 27-32-220. Limitations on payments from fund.
Section 27-32-240. Property taxation of time share units; valuation; assessment; enforcement.
Section 27-32-250. Sales or exchanges of vacation multiple ownership interests.
Section 27-32-300. Short title.
Section 27-32-310. Definitions.
Section 27-32-325. Conditions for exercise of power of sale by trustee.
Section 27-32-330. Notification of obligor; perfection of notice.
Section 27-32-345. Public sale procedures; certificate of sale.
Section 27-32-355. Trustee's deed; release of lien extinguished by sale.
Section 27-32-360. Disposition of proceeds of sale; costs and fees.
Section 27-32-365. Trustee's deed; contents; effect; liability of trustee.
Section 27-32-400. Citation of article.
Section 27-32-410. Timeshare closing; time; representation; notice to purchaser; contents.
Section 27-32-500. Short title.
Section 27-32-505. Purposes of article.
Section 27-32-510. Extension of vacation time sharing plan terms; voting; quorum; proxy.