Timeshare Rescission Laws by State

Find your state, then read the second column

If you signed in the last two weeks, this is the most valuable page on this site for you. Rescission is the only exit that gives you every dollar back, and it closes fast.

Every row below was checked against the statute itself, not against another website. Thirty-eight states have a timeshare rescission law we could verify and cite. Twelve do not, and rather than fill those rows with numbers we cannot support, we left them empty and explained why.

That is not us being unhelpful. It is the finding. Search this topic and you will see a dozen tidy fifty-row tables published by companies that sell timeshare exits. A fair number of those rows cannot be right, because the statutes behind them do not exist.

One thing to notice before you scan for your state. The deadline usually is not counted from the day you signed. In most of these states the clock starts on the later of signing or receiving the public offering statement and the other required documents. A developer who was slow with the paperwork may have given you more time than you think.

The 38 states with a verified rescission statute

State	Deadline	Clock starts	Statute
Alabama	5 days, excluding Sunday if it is the fifth	Signing	Ala. Code 34-27-53
Alaska	15 days	Receipt of public offering statement, if not given 15 days before signing	AS 34.08.580
Arizona	10 calendar days	Execution of the purchase agreement	A.R.S. 32-2197.03
Arkansas	5 days, and voidable until you receive the public offering statement	Execution of contract	Ark. Code 18-14-409
California	7 calendar days	Later of receipt of the public report or execution	Bus. & Prof. Code 11238
Colorado	5 calendar days	After the sale	C.R.S. 6-1-703
Connecticut	5 calendar days	Later of signing and receiving a copy, or receiving the disclosure statement	Conn. Gen. Stat. 42-103pp
Delaware	5 business days	Execution of contract	6 Del. C. 2824
Florida	10 calendar days	Later of execution or receipt of all required documents	Fla. Stat. 721.10
Georgia	7 days, excluding Sundays and holidays	Later of receipt of the public offering statement or signing	Ga. Code 44-3-174
Hawaii	7 calendar days	Later of execution or receipt of the disclosure statement	HRS 514E-8
Illinois	5 calendar days	Later of receipt of the public offering statement or execution	765 ILCS 101/10-10
Indiana	72 hours, excluding Sundays and holidays	Execution of the sales contract	Ind. Code 32-32-3-7
Iowa	5 business days	Receipt of all required information	Iowa Code 557A.14
Louisiana	7 calendar days, either party	Later of receipt of the public offering statement or execution	La. R.S. 9:1131.13
Maine	10 calendar days	Later of receipt of the written statement or execution	33 M.R.S. 592
Maryland	10 calendar days	Latest of contract date, receipt of the last document, or unit ready for occupancy	Md. Real Prop. 11A-114
Massachusetts	3 business days	Receipt of the public offering statement	Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 183B s. 38
Minnesota	5 days	Receipt of a legible copy of the contract and the public offering statement	Minn. Stat. 83.28
Missouri	5 days	Day of purchase	Mo. Rev. Stat. 407.620
Nebraska	3 business days	Receipt of the public offering statement	Neb. Rev. Stat. 76-1716
Nevada	5 calendar days	Execution of the contract	NRS 119A.410
New Jersey	7 calendar days	Later of receipt of the public offering statement or execution	N.J.S.A. 45:15-16.67
New Mexico	7 days	Execution of the contract of sale	N.M. Stat. 47-11-5
North Carolina	5 days	Later of signing or receipt of the public offering statement and all documents	N.C.G.S. 93A-45
Oklahoma	5 days	Receipt of the signed contract and the public offering statement	71 O.S. 643
Oregon	5 calendar days	Signing the first written offer or contract	ORS 94.836
Pennsylvania	5 days	Execution of the purchase contract	63 P.S. 455.609
Rhode Island	5 business days, excluding weekends and holidays	Later of the execution date or receipt of the last required document	R.I. Gen. Laws 34-41-4.06
South Carolina	5 days, excluding Sunday if it is the fifth	Later of signing or receipt of the disclosure statement	S.C. Code 27-32-40
Tennessee	10 calendar days with an on-site inspection, 15 without	Signing	Tenn. Code 66-32-114
Texas	Before the sixth day	Later of signing and receiving a copy, or receiving the disclosure statement	Tex. Prop. Code 221.041
Utah	5 business days, not counting the signing day	Day the agreement is signed	Utah Code 57-19-12
Vermont	5 days	Notice must be dated on or before the fifth day	27 V.S.A. ch. 15
Virginia	7 calendar days, rolling past a Sunday or holiday	Execution of the contract	Va. Code 55.1-2221
Washington	7 days	Execution, and revived for 7 days if the disclosure document arrives late	RCW 64.36.150
West Virginia	10 days	Later of signing or receipt of the public offering statement	W. Va. Code 36-9-5
Wisconsin	5 business days	Later of execution or receipt of the last required document	Wis. Stat. 707.47

The 12 states we could not verify

These are not oversights. Each one is a case where the statute other publishers cite either does not say what they claim, was repealed, or governs something else entirely.

State	What we found	What to do
Idaho	No timeshare-specific rescission statute located. Idaho Code 55-1805 is about subdivision exemptions, not cancellation.	Ask a licensed Idaho attorney. Check your contract’s own cancellation clause first.
Kansas	No timeshare act located. Chapter 58 article 32 covers land and water recreational areas. The door-to-door right at K.S.A. 50-640 expressly excludes the sale of real property, so it does not rescue a deeded purchase.	Read your contract’s own cancellation clause, then a Kansas attorney.
Kentucky	No timeshare-specific rescission statute located in KRS chapter 367.	Read your contract’s cancellation clause and get a Kentucky attorney to check it.
Michigan	The Land Sales Act, MCL 565.801 to 565.835, is repealed. A general home solicitation right exists at MCL 445.931, but we did not confirm whether it reaches real estate.	Do not rely on any site still quoting the repealed act. Ask a Michigan attorney which rule governs your sale.
Mississippi	No timeshare-specific rescission statute located.	Check your contract, then a Mississippi attorney.
Montana	MCA 37-53-304 gave seven days, but it was repealed by Sec. 17, Ch. 482, L. 2023 (SB 455), which eliminated timeshare registration effective October 1, 2023. We found no replacement cooling-off provision.	Do not rely on any site still quoting 37-53-304. Read your contract, then ask a Montana attorney what now governs.
New Hampshire	RSA 356-B is the Condominium Act. It contemplates timeshare interests but we found no rescission period for them.	Ask a New Hampshire attorney whether the condominium provisions reach your purchase.
New York	Seven days is widely reported and is consistent with the 13 NYCRR part 24 offering plan framework, but we could not confirm it in primary text.	Treat seven days as the working assumption, act well before it, and confirm with a New York attorney.
North Dakota	Century Code chapter 47-24 is the repealed Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, not a timeshare law.	Check your contract, then a North Dakota attorney.
Ohio	ORC 5311.27 gives 15 days, but it governs condominium ownership interests and only where disclosure rules were violated. It is not a general timeshare cooling-off right.	Ask an Ohio attorney whether 5311.27 reaches your contract.
South Dakota	Codified law 43-15A is the Condominiums chapter, not a timeshare act.	Check your contract, then a South Dakota attorney.
Wyoming	Title 34 chapter 25 is the Plane Coordinates System, not timeshare law. A general home solicitation right exists at W.S. 40-14-252, but we did not confirm whether it reaches real estate.	Read your contract, then ask a Wyoming attorney whether any cooling-off right reaches your sale.

If your state is blank, you are not out of options

A missing state rescission statute does not mean you have no way out. Three things still apply.

Your contract has its own cancellation clause. Developers operating in multiple states often write one deadline into every contract, which means you may hold a contractual right your state never required. Read the first page.

Do not count on the federal cooling-off rule. This is the myth to kill before it costs you the deadline. The FTC’s Cooling-Off Rule does give three business days on many sales made at your home or at a seller’s temporary location such as a hotel or convention center, which describes a timeshare presentation exactly. But the rule states plainly that it does not cover sales involving real estate. A deeded timeshare is real estate. If someone tells you the federal three-day rule has you covered, they are wrong about the one thing you needed them to be right about.

And the free routes further down the list are still open. Rescission is the best exit, not the only one. If your window closed or never existed, go work the eight routes in order, starting with the developer’s own deed-back program.

How we built this table

Each entry was checked against the text of the statute it cites, through the state legislature’s own site where that site was reachable, and through a statutory database reproducing the section where it was not. Where a state’s own site could not be reached, the citation still points at the text we read.

We did not use timeshare exit companies, timeshare resale companies, or plaintiff law firms as sources for any row. Those are the three groups that dominate search results on this topic, all three are selling something that depends on what you believe about your deadline, and several of them publish fifty-row tables that include states we could not find a statute for.

If you find an error, or a statute we missed in one of the twelve, we want to hear it. Accuracy here is the whole point of the page.

This is general information, not legal advice, and a table can never account for the contract in front of you. Deadlines turn on which state’s law your agreement selects, on when your documents actually arrived, and on language we cannot see. If your window is close, call a licensed attorney in the governing state today rather than tomorrow.