Section 1202 Of Chapter 6. Securities From California Financial Code >> Division 1.1. >> Chapter 6.
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. The following transactions are exempt from Section 1201:
(a) (1) Any offer (but not a sale) not involving a public offering
by a bank organized under the laws of this state of its securities
and the execution and delivery of any agreement for the sale of the
securities pursuant to the offer if no part of the consideration for
the securities is paid to or received by the bank and none of the
securities are issued until the sale of the securities is authorized
by the commissioner or exempted from authorization.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), an offer does not involve any
public offering if the offers are not made to more than 25 persons
and any agreement for the sale of the securities is not entered into
with more than 10 of those 25 persons, and if all of the offerees
either have a preexisting personal or business relationship with the
bank or its officers, directors, or controlling persons, or by reason
of their business or financial experience the offerees could be
reasonably assumed to have the capacity to protect their own
interests in connection with the transaction.
(b) Any stock split by a bank organized under the laws of this
state that is effected pursuant to an amendment to its articles, an
agreement of merger, or a certificate of ownership that has been
approved by the commissioner, unless this exemption is withheld by
order of the commissioner.
(c) Any offer or sale of securities by a bank organized under the
laws of this state that is either (1) to a person actually approved
by the commissioner pursuant to Section 1253 to acquire control of
the bank if all of the material terms and conditions of the offer and
sale of securities are disclosed in the application for approval
specified in Section 1253 and the offer and sale of securities is in
accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of the
approval to acquire control or (2) in a transaction exempted from the
approval requirement of Section 1251 by a regulation or an order of
the commissioner, unless this exemption is withheld by order of the
commissioner.