§ 1701.
Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, the term—
(1)
“Director” means the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection;
(2)
“person” means an individual, or an unincorporated organization, partnership, association, corporation, trust, or estate;
(3)
“subdivision” means any land which is located in any State or in a foreign country and is divided or is proposed to be divided into lots, whether contiguous or not, for the purpose of sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan;
(4)
“common promotional plan” means a plan, undertaken by a single developer or a group of developers acting in concert, to offer lots for sale or lease; where such land is offered for sale by such a developer or group of developers acting in concert, and such land is contiguous or is known, designated, or advertised as a common unit or by a common name, such land shall be presumed, without regard to the number of lots covered by each individual offering, as being offered for sale or lease as part of a common promotional plan;
(5)
“developer” means any person who, directly or indirectly, sells or leases, or offers to sell or lease, or advertises for sale or lease any lots in a subdivision;
(6)
“agent” means any person who represents, or acts for or on behalf of, a developer in selling or leasing, or offering to sell or lease, any lot or lots in a subdivision; but shall not include an attorney at law whose representation of another person consists solely of rendering legal services;
(7)
“blanket encumbrance” means a trust deed, mortgage, judgment, or any other lien or encumbrance, including an option or contract to sell or a trust agreement, affecting a subdivision or affecting more than one lot offered within a subdivision except that such term shall not include any lien or other encumbrance arising as the result of the imposition of any tax assessment by any public authority;
(8)
“interstate commerce” means trade or commerce among the several States or between any foreign country and any State;
(9)
“State” includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States;
(10)
“purchaser” means an actual or prospective purchaser or lessee of any lot in a subdivision;
(11)
“offer” includes any inducement, solicitation, or attempt to encourage a person to acquire a lot in a subdivision; and
(12)
“Bureau” means the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.
([Pub. L. 90–448, title XIV, § 1402], Aug. 1, 1968, [82 Stat. 590]; [Pub. L. 93–383, title VIII, § 812(a)], Aug. 22, 1974, [88 Stat. 736]; [Pub. L. 96–153, title IV, § 401], Dec. 21, 1979, [93 Stat. 1122]; [Pub. L. 100–628, title X, § 1089(a)], Nov. 7, 1988, [102 Stat. 3283]; [Pub. L. 111–203, title X, § 1098A(4)], July 21, 2010, [124 Stat. 2105].)