Compilation of Securities Laws Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Commerce: Including Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ..., Volume 4

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - Securities - 733 pages

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Contents

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 1
210
Sec 21A Civil penalties for insider trading
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
Reports by indenture trustee
349
Reports by obligor evidence of compliance with indenture provisions
350
Duties and responsibility of the trustee
355
Directions and waivers by bondholders prohibition of impairment of holders right to payment
356
Special powers of trustee duties of paying agents
357
Effect of prescribed indenture provisions
358
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
Sec 11A National market system for securities securities information
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
SIPC Fund
513
General provisions of a liquidation proceeding
523
SIPC advances
529
Prohibited acts
535
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 92aa b
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
Omnibus Small Business Capital Formation Act of 1980 Sections 502
651
101
666
Higher Education Act of 1965 Section 4391 20 U S C 10872
669
Act of June 29 1949 Section 3 22 U S C 286k2
675
Appendix Continued
676
iii
680
Index to Appendix 723
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