Compilation of Securities Laws Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Commerce: Including Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, Trust Indenture Act of 1939, Investment Company Act of of 1940, Investment Advisors Act of 1940, Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - Securities - 725 pages

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Contents

Limitation of actions
25
Special powers of Commission
32
Hearings by Commission
36
Sec 27A Application of safe harbor for forwardlooking statements
47
Securities and Exchange Commission
61
24
67
43
75
Rules regulations and orders
77
Sec 4B Transfer of functions with respect to assignment of personnel
83
Margin requirements
90
Regulation of the use of manipulative and deceptive devices
96
Registration requirements for securities
107
Periodical and other reports
117
Proxies
127
Registration and regulation of brokers and dealers
136
Sec 15A Registered securities associations
149
Sec 15B Municipal securities
157
Sec 15C Government securities brokers and dealers
164
Directors officers and principal stockholders
178
Accounts and records examinations of exchanges members and others
180
Sec 17A National system for clearance and settlement of securities transactions
188
Sec 17B Automated quotation for penny stocks
197
Liability for misleading statements
198
Registration responsibilities and oversight of selfregulatory organizations
199
Liability of controlling persons and persons who aid and abet violations
208
Sec 20A Liability to contemporaneous traders for insider trading
209
Investigations injunctions and prosecution of offenses
217
Sec 21B Civil remedies in administrative proceedings
219
Sec 21C Ceaseanddesist proceedings
221
Sec 21D Private securities litigation
223
Sec 21E Application of safe harbor for forwardlooking statements
233
Hearings by Commission
237
Public availability of information
240
Court review of orders and rules
241
Unlawful representations
243
Sec 27A Special provision relating to statute of limitations on private causes of action
244
Validity of contracts
249
Foreign securities exchanges
250
Transaction fees
263
Penalties
265
Separability of provisions
266
General exemptive authority
267
PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935
269
Necessity for control of holding companies
271
Definitions
272
Power to make particular exemptions regarding holding companies subsidiary companies and affiliates
280
Transactions by unregistered holding companies
282
Unlawful security transactions by registered holding and subsidiary companies
284
Declarations by registered holding and subsidiary companies in respect of security transactions
285
Acquiring interest in electric and gas utility companies serving same territory
287
Acquisition of securities and utility assets and other interests
288
Approval of acquisition of securities and utility assets and other interests
289
Simplification of holdingcompany systems
291
Intercompany loans dividends security transactions sale of utility assets proxies other transactions
295
Service sales and construction contracts
297
Periodic and other reports
300
Liability for misleading statements
302
Officers directors and other affiliates
303
Investigations injunctions enforcement of title and prosecution of offenses
304
Hearings by Commission
305
Effect on existing law
306
Information filed with the Commission
307
Jurisdiction of offenses and suits
308
Liability of controlling persons preventing compliance with title
309
Penalties
310
Treatment of foreign utilities
315
Exempt telecommunications companies
318
Separability of provisions
323
TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
325
Short title
327
registered
336
Integration of procedure with Securities Act and other Acts
337
Eligibility and disqualification of trustee
338
Preferential collection of claims against obligor
344
Bondholders lists
347
Unlawful representations
362
Separability of provisions
363
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
365
Findings and declaration of policy
367
General definitions
368
Definition of investment company
381
Classification of investment companies
388
Exemptions
389
Transactions by unregistered investment companies
392
Registration of investment companies
394
Ineligibility of certain affiliated persons and underwriters
396
Affiliations of directors
402
Offers of exchange
404
Changes in investment policy
410
Investment advisory and underwriting contracts
411
Changes in board of directors provisions relative to strict trusts
414
Transactions of certain affiliated persons and underwriters
416
Capital structure
419
Dividends
423
Proxies voting trusts circular ownership
424
Loans
425
closedend companies
427
Registration of securities under Securities Act of 1933
428
Plans of reorganization
431
Unit investment trusts
432
Periodic payment plans
434
Faceamount certificate companies
438
Bankruptcy of faceamount certificate companies
445
Accounts and records
448
Accountants and auditors
449
Filing of documents with Commission in civil actions
450
Destruction and falsification of reports and records
451
Breach of fiduciary duty
452
Larceny and embezzlement
453
Rules and regulations procedure for issuance
454
Hearings by Commission
455
Court review of orders
457
Jurisdiction of offenses and suits
458
Information filed with commission
459
Liability of controlling persons preventing compliance with title
460
Separability of provisions
461
Qualifications of directors
463
Transactions with certain affiliates
464
Changes in investment policy
469
Functions and activities of business development companies
470
Loans
472
Accounts and records
473
Liability of controlling persons preventing compliance with title
474
INVESTMENT ADVISERS ACT OF 1940
475
Findings
477
Registration of investment advisers
481
Sec 203A State and Federal responsibilities
491
Annual and other reports
493
Prohibited transactions by registered investment advisers
495
General prohibitions
496
Publicity
498
Rules regulations and orders
499
Hearings
500
Short title
507
Market Reform Act of 1990 Section 8
545
Title 5 United States Code Sections 551557 704706
551
Commodity Exchange Act Sections 2 4m 7 U S C 2 2a 6m
591
Act of September 28 1962 12 U S C 92aab
600
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 Section 1542
608
Farm Credit Act of 1971 Section 8 12 12 U S C 2279aa12
620
Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 12 U S C 3401nt3422 623
638
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 Sec
644
Reorganization Plan Number 10 of 1950 15 U S C 78d note
649
Federal Water Power Act
655
101
666
Higher Education Act of 1965 Section 4391 20 U S C 108721 669
671
AppendixContinued
676
Index to Appendix 723
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Page 86 - It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails, or of any facility of any national securities exchange...
Page 501 - Is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act...
Page 590 - States, and such guaranty shall be expressed on the face thereof, and such bonds shall be lawful investments, and may be accepted as security for all fiduciary, trust, and public funds, the investment or deposit of which shall be under the authority or control of the United States or any officer or officers thereof.
Page 17 - If either party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence and shall show to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for the failure to adduce such evidence in the proceeding before the Commission, the court may order such additional evidence to be taken before the Commission and to be adduced upon the hearing in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to the court may seem proper.
Page 381 - ... or any rule or regulation thereunder or any undertaking contained in a registration statement as provided in subsection (d) of Section 15 of this title, which statement was at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it was made false or misleading with respect to any material fact...
Page 552 - ... (10) establish appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to insure the security and confidentiality of records and to protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to their security or integrity which could result in substantial harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or unfairness to any individual on whom information is maintained...
Page 545 - For purposes of this section, the term "agency" as defined in section 551(1) of this title includes any executive department, military department, Government corporation, Government controlled corporation, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Government (including the Executive Office of the President), or any independent...
Page 471 - Commission with respect to registration, any statement which was at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it was made false or misleading with respect to any material fact...
Page 294 - Commission and to be adduced upon the hearing in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to the court may seem proper. The Commission may modify its findings as to the facts, or make new findings, by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and it shall file such modified or new findings, which,, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive, and its recommendation, if any.

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