T.C.A. § 66-32-302 Part Definitions

• Library: Tennessee Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 488, and 2023EX1, ch. 4
• Year: 2023
• Citation: T.C.A. § 66-32-302

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Advertisement" means any written, printed, verbal, or visual offer;

(2) "Blanket encumbrance" means any mortgage, deed of trust, option to purchase, vendor's lien or interest under a contract or agreement of sale, or other material financing lien or encumbrance granted by the membership camping operator, which secures or evidences the obligation to pay money or to sell or convey any campgrounds located in this state made available to purchasers by the membership camping operator or any portion thereof and which authorizes, permits, or requires the foreclosure or other disposition of the campground affected;

(3) "Campground" means real property owned or operated by a membership camping operator which is available for camping by purchasers of membership camping contracts;

(4) "Camping site" means a space designed and promoted for the purpose of locating a trailer, tent, tent trailer, pickup camper, or other similar device used for camping;

(5) "Facilities" means the following amenities provided and located on property owned or operated by a membership camping operator: camping sites, rental trailers or cabins, swimming pools, sport courts, recreation buildings, and trading posts or grocery stores;

(6) "Holder" includes the seller who acquires a membership camping contract or, if the contract is purchased, a financing agency or other assignee that purchases the contract;

(7) "Membership camping contract" means an agreement offered or sold within this state evidencing a purchaser's title to, interest in, right or license to use, for more than thirty (30) days, the campgrounds and facilities of a membership camping operator and includes a membership which provides for this use;

(8) "Membership camping operator" means any enterprise, other than one that is tax exempt under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 ( 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) ), as amended, that solicits membership camping contracts paid for by a fee or periodic payments and has as one (1) of its purposes camping or outdoor recreation including use of camping sites primarily by purchasers;

(9) "Nondisturbance agreement" means an instrument by which the holder of a blanket encumbrance agrees that: