Section 53690 Of Article 2.5. Sale Of Securities From California Government Code >> Division 2. >> Title 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 2.5.
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. For the purposes of this article:
(a) "Local agency" means a county, city, city and county,
redevelopment agency, public district, joint powers authority, or
public nonprofit corporation.
(b) "Securities" means any bonds, notes, warrants, or other
evidences of indebtedness and the interest coupons, if any, attached
thereto, issued or proposed to be issued to finance or refinance a
public project.
(c) "Issuer" means a local agency which issues securities.
(d) "Broker" has the same meaning as "broker-dealer" as defined in
Section 25004 of the Corporations Code.
(e) "Dealer" has the same meaning as "broker-dealer" as defined in
Section 25004 of the Corporations Code.
(f) "Municipal securities dealer" means any person, including a
separately identifiable department or division of a bank, trust
company, or savings and loan association engaged in the business of
buying and selling municipal securities for his or her own account,
through a broker or otherwise, but does not include any of the
following:
(1) Any person insofar as he or she buys or sells those securities
for his or her own account, either individually or in some fiduciary
capacity, but not as a part of a regular business.
(2) A bank, trust company, or savings and loan association, unless
the bank, trust company, or savings and loan association is engaged
in the business of buying and selling municipal securities for its
own account other than in a fiduciary capacity, through a broker or
otherwise, unless the bank, trust company or savings and loan
association is engaged in that business through a separately
identifiable department or division, in which case the department or
division, and not the bank, trust company, or savings and loan
association, is the municipal securities dealer.