Section 7272 Of Article 2.5. Other Authorized Investments In Bonds And Securities From California Financial Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 2.5.
7272
. Evidences of indebtedness of companies incorporated in the
United States and, directly or indirectly, engaged in manufacturing,
extraction, merchandising, or commercial financing and in bonds of
authorities established pursuant to the California Industrial
Development Financing Act (Title 10 (commencing with Section 91500)
of the Government Code), to which those institutions are obligated
with respect to payment, provided:
(a) Any unsecured evidences of indebtedness shall be issued by a
company substantially all of whose property is free of mortgage and
shall carry a covenant by the obligor that they will be secured
equally with any mortgage bond, except a purchase money mortgage,
which may be later issued.
(b) The company is of such size as to attract at least statewide
interest in its publicly held securities and its gross income shall
have averaged not less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) and its
net income shall have averaged not less than one million dollars
($1,000,000) for the five fiscal years preceding the investment and
its gross income was not less than one million dollars ($1,000,000)
for at least three of those five fiscal years.
(c) Working capital as measured by consolidated current assets
less consolidated current liabilities as shown in the latest
published balance sheet shall exceed 150 percent of the total of
consolidated debt due in longer than one year and "minority interest"
(i.e., any outstanding interest in a subsidiary having a prior claim
on the earnings of the subsidiary), except that the foregoing ratio
requirement shall not apply in the case of evidences of indebtedness
of any corporation whose consolidated gross assets less any valuation
reserves exceed five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) and
whose consolidated current assets exceed consolidated current
liabilities by at least one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) as
shown by the latest published balance sheet. When new financing is
involved, the changes in gross assets, capital structure, and working
capital shall be considered and reliance may be placed on the
representations made in the official prospectus prepared under the
rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission as to the application
of the proceeds of that financing.
(d) The total consolidated debt of the company including current
liabilities and "minority interest" (i.e. any outstanding interest in
a subsidiary having a prior claim on the earnings of the
subsidiary), as shown on the latest published balance sheet, does not
exceed 33 1/3 percent of its gross assets less valuation reserves.
(e) The consolidated annual net income for the five fiscal years
next preceding the investment, before deductions of state and federal
taxes imposed on or measured by income or profits but after
deducting all charges (including reserves, regularly recurring
charges for amortization of discount, and expense allocable to funded
debt) (1) shall have averaged not less than six times the annual
consolidated interest charges existing at the time the investment is
made; (2) in at least three of those five fiscal years shall have
been at least four times the annual consolidated interest charges for
the same year; and (3) for the fiscal year next preceding the
investment shall have been not less than six times the consolidated
interest charges for that year and not less than six times the annual
consolidated charges on the funded debt outstanding at the time of
the investment.