Colorado Code § 12-10-501

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As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Accredited investor" has the same meaning as defined in the securities and
exchange commission's rule 501 of regulation D, 17 CFR 230.501 (a).
(1.5) "Commission" means the real estate commission established under section 12-10-
206.
(2) "Developer" means any person, as defined in section 2-4-401 (8), that participates as
owner, promoter, or sales agent in the promotion, sale, or lease of a subdivision or any part
thereof.
(3) (a) "Subdivision" means any real property divided into twenty or more interests
intended solely for residential use and offered for sale, lease, or transfer.
(b) (I) The term "subdivision" also includes:
(A) The conversion of an existing structure into a common interest community, as
defined in article 33.3 of title 38, of twenty or more residential units;
(B) A group of twenty or more time shares intended for residential use; and
(C) A group of twenty or more proprietary leases in a cooperative housing corporation,
as described in article 33.5 of title 38.
(II) The term "subdivision" does not include:
(A) The selling of memberships in campgrounds;
(B) Bulk sales and transfers between developers;
(C) Property upon which there has been or upon which there will be erected residential
buildings that have not been previously occupied and where the consideration paid for the
property includes the cost of the buildings;
(D) Lots that, at the time of closing of a sale or occupancy under a lease, are situated on
a street or road and street or road system improved to standards at least equal to streets and roads
maintained by the county, city, or town in which the lots are located; have a feasible plan to
provide potable water and sewage disposal; and have telephone and electricity facilities and
systems adequate to serve the lots, which facilities and systems are installed and in place on the
lots or in a street, road, or easement adjacent to the lots and which facilities and systems comply
with applicable state, county, municipal, or other local laws, rules, and regulations; or any
subdivision that has been or is required to be approved after September 1, 1972, by a regional,
county, or municipal planning authority pursuant to article 28 of title 30 or article 23 of title 31;
(E) Sales by public officials in the official conduct of their duties.
(4) "Time share" means a time share estate, as defined in section 38-33-110 (5), or a
time share use, but the term does not include group reservations made for convention purposes
as a single transaction with a hotel, motel, or condominium owner or association. For the
purposes of this subsection (4), "time share use" means a contractual or membership right of
occupancy, that cannot be terminated at the will of the owner, for life or for a term of years, to
the recurrent, exclusive use or occupancy of a lot, parcel, unit, or specific or nonspecific segment
of real property, annually or on some other periodic basis, for a period of time that has been or
will be allotted from the use or occupancy periods into which the property has been divided.

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