Section 5950 Of Chapter 13. Fractional Interest In Local Agency Obligations From California Government Code >> Division 6. >> Title 1. >> Chapter 13.
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. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Accredited investor" has the meaning specified in Rule 501 of
the Securities Act of 1933.
(b) "In this state" has the meaning specified in Section 25008 of
the Corporations Code.
(c) "Issuer" has the meaning specified in Section 25010 of the
Corporations Code.
(d) "Issuer transaction" means any transaction directly or
indirectly for the benefit of the issuer. A transaction is indirectly
for the benefit of the issuer if any portion of the purchase price
of any security constituting a fractional interest in a lease,
installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency involved in
the transaction will be received indirectly by the issuer. An offer
or sale that involves both an issuer transaction and a transaction
that is not an issuer transaction shall be treated as separate
transactions.
(e) "Knowingly" means that a person, with respect to an offer or
sale of a security constituting a fractional interest in a lease,
installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency, does any of
the following:
(1) Has actual knowledge that the local agency has not consented
to the offer or sale of such security.
(2) Acts in deliberate ignorance of whether or not the local
agency has consented to the offer or sale of that security.
(3) Acts in reckless disregard of whether or not the local agency
has consented to the offer or sale of that security.
Proof of specific intent to violate Section 5951 is not required.
(f) "Local agency" means a city, county, city and county, school
district, special district, public corporation, or other public
entity of this state.
(g) "Person" has the meaning specified in Section 25013 of the
Corporations Code.
(h) "Qualified institutional buyer" has the meaning specified in
Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933.
(i) "Sale," "sell," "offer," and "offer to sell" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 25017 of the Corporations
Code.
(j) "Security" has the meaning specified in Section 25019 of the
Corporations Code.
(k) "Securities Act of 1933" and "Investment Company Act of 1940"
means the federal statutes of those names as amended before or after
the effective date of this chapter.