Vacation ownership and time-shares: owners list.

The Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004 requires a time-share association to maintain among its records a complete list of the names and addresses of all owners of time-share interests in the time-share plan, as specified. Existing law prohibits an association from publishing the owners list or providing a copy of it to any time-share interest owner or to any 3rd party or using or selling the list for commercial purposes, except as provided in the time-share instruments. This bill would require the association to maintain a complete list of the names and post office addresses of all owners of time-share interests in the time-share plan, and would prohibit the association from publishing the owners list or providing a copy of it to any time-share interest owner or to any 3rd party or using or selling the list for commercial purposes. The bill would provide methods for a time-share interest owner to communicate with the entire membership of the association through a written request to the association, as specified. The bill would authorize an owner, whose request to communicate was denied by the association, to file a court action, and, under certain circumstances, authorize a court to award to the requesting owner costs, including attorney's fees, reasonably incurred to enforce the owner's rights. The bill would also specify that certain provisions of the Nonprofit Mutual Benefit Corporation Law do not apply to time-share associations under the Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.