Section 10005 Of Chapter 10. Foreign (national) Savings Companies From California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 10.
10005
. For the purposes of this article and any other law of this
state prohibiting, limiting, or regulating the doing of business or
the selling, taking, or solicitation of savings accounts in this
state by foreign savings associations or foreign corporations, any
federally insured foreign savings association subject to state or
federal supervision, which by law is subject to periodic examination
by that supervisory authority and to a requirement of periodic audit,
and any broker-dealer registered in accordance with the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Corporate Securities
Law of 1968, and any partner, officer, director, branch manager, or
person performing similar functions, and employees of that
broker-dealer, shall not be considered to be doing business or
selling, taking, or soliciting savings accounts in this state by
reason of engaging in the following:
(a) (1) Any of the activities specified in subdivision (d) of
Section 191 of the Corporations Code, or (2) the advertising or
solicitation of savings accounts in this state by a federally insured
foreign savings association through the media of the mail, radio,
television, magazines, newspapers, or any other media that are
published or circulated within this state, except through or as a
result of telemarketing, provided that the advertising or
solicitation as a whole is accurate and does not create a misleading
impression even though statements considered separately are literally
accurate. A federally insured foreign savings association shall not
sell, take or solicit savings accounts through telemarketing by use
of the telephone or telephone transceiving equipment, or through the
use of an automatic dial-announcing device as defined in Section 2871
of the Public Utilities Code.
(b) The offering by a registered broker-dealer of, or the
placement by a registered broker-dealer of a customer's funds into, a
savings account at a federally insured foreign savings association
chartered under the laws of a state in which broker-dealers make
available savings accounts of associations chartered under the laws
of this state, provided that (1) any advertising, offering material,
or solicitation as a whole is accurate and does not create a
misleading impression even though statements considered separately
are literally accurate and (2) the savings accounts of the federally
insured foreign savings association are rated "investment grade" by
either Standard & Poor's Corporation or Moody's Investors Service,
Inc. based upon the foreign savings association's ability to repay
the savings accounts independent of federal deposit insurance
benefits.