(770 ILCS 103/3)

Sec. 3. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Accommodation" means any apartment, condominium or cooperative unit, cabin, lodge, hotel or motel room, or other private or commercial structure containing toilet facilities therein that is designed and available, pursuant to applicable law, for use and occupancy as a residence by one or more individuals, or any unit or berth on a commercial cruise line ship, which is included in the offering of a timeshare plan.

"Assessment" means the share of funds required for the payment of common expenses which is assessed from time to time against each purchaser by the managing entity.

"Developer" means and includes any person or entity, other than a sales agent, acquisition agent, or resale agent, who creates a timeshare plan or is in the business of selling timeshare interests, or employs agents to do the same, or any person or entity who succeeds to the interest of a developer by sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, or other transfer, but the term includes only those persons who offer timeshare interests for disposition in the ordinary course of business.

"Managing entity" means the person who undertakes the duties, responsibilities, and obligations of the management of a timeshare plan.

"Managing entity lien" means a lien created pursuant to Section 5.

"Purchaser" means any person, other than a developer, who by means of a voluntary transfer acquires a legal or equitable interest in a timeshare plan other than as security for an obligation.

"Timeshare instrument" means one or more documents, by whatever name denominated, creating or governing the operation of a timeshare plan.

"Timeshare interest" means and includes either:

(1) a "timeshare estate", which is the right to occupy a timeshare property, coupled with a freehold estate or an estate for years with a future interest in a timeshare property or a specified portion thereof; or

(2) a "timeshare use", which is the right to occupy a timeshare property, which right is neither coupled with a freehold interest, nor coupled with an estate for years with a future interest, in a timeshare property.

"Timeshare plan" means any arrangement, plan, scheme, or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, sale, lease, deed, license, or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, whereby a purchaser, in exchange for consideration, receives ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a period of time less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years. A timeshare plan may be:

(1) a "single-site timeshare plan", which is the right to use accommodations at a single timeshare property; or

(2) a "multi-site timeshare plan", which includes:

(A) a "specific timeshare interest", which is the right to use accommodations at a specific timeshare property, together with use rights in accommodations at one or more other component sites created by or acquired through the timeshare plan's reservation system; or

(B) a "non-specific timeshare interest", which is the right to use accommodations at more than one component site created by or acquired through the timeshare plan's reservation system, but including no specific right to use any particular accommodations.

"Timeshare property" means one or more accommodations subject to the same timeshare instrument, together with any other property or rights to property appurtenant to those accommodations.

(Source: P.A. 100-1038, eff. 1-1-19.)