- (1) Any person who willfully fails to register an offering of camping resort contracts under this chapter is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(2) It is a gross misdemeanor for any person in connection with the offer or sale of any camping resort contracts willfully and knowingly:
- (a) To make any untrue or misleading statement of a material fact, or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading;
- (b) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud;
- (c) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person;
- (d) To file, or cause to be filed, with the director any document which contains any untrue or misleading information;
- (e) To breach any impound, escrow, trust, or other security arrangement provided for by this chapter;
- (f) To cause the breaching of any trust, escrow, impound, or other arrangement placed in a registration for compliance with RCW 19.105.336; or
- (g) To employ unlicensed salespersons or permit salespersons or employees to make misrepresentations or violate this chapter.
- (3) No indictment or information may be returned under this chapter more than five years after the date of the event alleged to have been a violation.
[ 2003 c 53 s 152; 1988 c 159 s 24; 1982 c 69 s 19.]
Notes:
Intent—Effective date—2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.