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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61697</law_id><section_number>55.1-2201</section_number><catch_line>Applicability</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>55.1-2201</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Common Interest Communities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="22">Virginia Real Estate Time-Share Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> This chapter shall have exclusive <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> and shall apply to any <span class="dictionary">product</span> <span class="dictionary">offering</span> or <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> made within the Commonwealth after July 1, 1985, in a <span class="dictionary">time-share project</span> located within the Commonwealth. Sections <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/55.1-2200/">55.1-2200</a>, <a class="law" title="Applicability" href="/55.1-2201/">55.1-2201</a>, <a class="law" title="Administrative agency" href="/55.1-2202/">55.1-2202</a>, <a class="law" title="Status of time-share estates with respect to real property interests" href="/55.1-2203/">55.1-2203</a>, <a class="law" title="Applicability of local ordinances, regulations, and building codes" href="/55.1-2204/">55.1-2204</a>, <a class="law" title="Severability of provisions of time-share instruments" href="/55.1-2206/">55.1-2206</a>, <a class="law" title="Developer control in time-share estate program" href="/55.1-2210/">55.1-2210</a>, <a class="law" title="Time-share estate owners' association control liens" href="/55.1-2211/">55.1-2211</a>, <a class="law" title="Time-share estate owners' association annual report" href="/55.1-2213/">55.1-2213</a>, <a class="law" title="Partition" href="/55.1-2215/">55.1-2215</a>, <a class="law" title="Termination of certain time-shares" href="/55.1-2216/">55.1-2216</a>, <a class="law" title="Escrow of deposits; use of corporate surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit" href="/55.1-2220/">55.1-2220</a>, <a class="law" title="Resale of time-shares" href="/55.1-2227/">55.1-2227</a>, <a class="law" title="Liens" href="/55.1-2229/">55.1-2229</a>, <a class="law" title="Effect of violations on rights of action; attorney fees; prior determination of Common Interest Community Board required for certain violations" href="/55.1-2230/">55.1-2230</a>, <a class="law" title="Class actions" href="/55.1-2232/">55.1-2232</a>, <a class="law" title="Financial records" href="/55.1-2233/">55.1-2233</a>, <a class="law" title="Protection of lien holder" href="/55.1-2237/">55.1-2237</a>, and <a class="law" title="Penalties" href="/55.1-2252/">55.1-2252</a> shall apply to a <span class="dictionary">time-share project</span> within the Commonwealth that was created prior to July 1, 1985. <a id="paragraph-225283" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-2201/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> This chapter shall not affect rights or obligations created by preexisting provisions of any <span class="dictionary">time-share instrument</span> that <span class="dictionary">transfers</span> an estate or interest in real property. <a id="paragraph-225284" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-2201/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> This chapter shall apply to any <span class="dictionary">product</span> <span class="dictionary">offering</span> or <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> in a <span class="dictionary">time-share project</span> located outside the Commonwealth and offered for sale in the Commonwealth with the exception that Articles 2 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Time-sharing permitted" href="/55.1-2207/">55.1-2207</a> et seq.), 3 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Public offering statement" href="/55.1-2217/">55.1-2217</a> et seq.), and 4 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Financing of time-share programs" href="/55.1-2235/">55.1-2235</a> et seq.) shall apply only to the extent permitted by the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the <span class="dictionary">situs</span>. <a id="paragraph-225285" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-2201/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> This chapter shall apply to any <span class="dictionary">product</span> <span class="dictionary">offering</span> or <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> in a <span class="dictionary">time-share program</span>, and offered for sale in the Commonwealth, created under a <span class="dictionary">situs</span> time-sharing <span class="dictionary">law</span> in which the time-share interests in the <span class="dictionary">time-share program</span> are either direct or indirect beneficial interests in a trust created pursuant to the <span class="dictionary">situs</span> time-sharing <span class="dictionary">law</span> or other applicable <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the <span class="dictionary">situs</span>. <a id="paragraph-225286" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/55.1-2201/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-361; 1981, c. 462; 1983, c. 59; 1985, c. 517, &#xA7; 55-361.1; 1986, c. 359; 1989, c. 637; 1991, c. 704; 1994, c. 580; 2019, c. 712; 2020, c. 1011.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
