2013 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code
Chapter 059 - Securities Regulation
Section 59.730 - Making contract involving securities without intending a bona fide sale or purchase.

No person, whether acting in the person's own right, or as the officer, agent, servant, correspondent or representative of another, shall, as broker make or offer to make, assist in making or offering to make, perform or take part in any contract respecting the purchase or sale, either upon credit or margin, of any securities or commodities more than once, and in course of continuing or repeated transactions:

(1) Intending that the contract shall be terminated, closed or settled according to, or upon the basis of the public market quotations of or prices made on any board of trade or exchange or market which deals in such commodities or securities, and without intending a bona fide purchase or sale of the same; or

(2) Intending that the contract shall be deemed terminated, closed and settled when the market quotations or prices mentioned in subsection (1) of this section for the securities or commodities named in the contract reach a certain figure, without intending a bona fide purchase or sale of the same; or

(3) Not intending the actual bona fide receipt or delivery of such securities or commodities, but intending a settlement of the contract based upon the difference in the public market quotations or prices, mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, at which the securities or commodities are, or are asserted to be, bought or sold. The prosecution, conviction and punishment of a corporation for violation of this section shall not be deemed to be a prosecution, conviction or punishment of any of its officers, directors or stockholders.