§ 7.85.010. Definitions.

For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Part 1:

A.

"Accommodations" means any hotel or motel room, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, apartment, or any other commercial structure designed for occupancy by one or more individuals.

B.

"Contract" means any contract, certificate, promissory note, credit agreement, negotiable instrument, use agreement, license, security, or other muniment conferring on the user the rights, benefits and privileges of the vacation certificate.

C.

"Facilities" means any structure, service or property, whether improved or unimproved, made available to the user for recreational, social, family or personal use.

D.

"Person" means any natural person, association, corporation, firm, partnership, trust or other form of business association doing business in the county of Los Angeles.

E.

"Recipient" means any person which receives vacation certificates from a seller of vacation certificates, and which itself sells, manages, promotes, advertises, lists or otherwise gives or offers vacation certificates for any business purpose.

F.

"Seller" means any person, including a recipient, selling, operating, managing, promoting, advertising, advancing, listing, or otherwise giving or offering vacation certificates for any business purpose.

G.

"Servicer" means any person who arranges, pays for, or secures by any means, the accommodations or facilities of another to which a user becomes entitled by being the transferee of a vacation certificate.

H.

"Solicitor" means any person who solicits users, at the time of use of accommodations or facilities, for the sale of any investments, goods, products or services, including but not limited to, land, interests in land, time-sharing plans. housing, commodities or securities.

I.

"User" means any individual who acquires a vacation certificate for personal use.

J.

"Vacation certificate" means any arrangement, plan, scheme, or similar device, whether by contract, certificate, license, membership agreement, security use agreement or any other means, whereby a user in exchange for advanced consideration, including but not limited to, registration fees and reservation deposits, is entitled to the use of accommodations or facilities for any number of days, but not for specific dates. Excepted from this definition are vacation plans in which the purchaser is entitled to the use of accommodations for any number of days each year during five or more successive years.

(Ord. 12338 § 4 (part), 1981: Ord. 5860 Ch. 26 Art. 1 § 3801, 1951.)