2021 California Code
Financial Code - FIN
DIVISION 7 - INDUSTRIAL LOAN COMPANIES
CHAPTER 5 - Administration and Powers of the Commissioner
ARTICLE 5 - Securities Transactions
Section 18427.
Unless the context otherwise requires, in this article:
(a) “Offer” or “offer to sell” includes every attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an offer to buy, a security for value.
(b) “Sale” or “sell” includes every contract of sale of, contract to sell, or disposition of, a security for value. “Sale” or “sell” includes any exchange of securities and any change in the rights, preferences, privileges, or restrictions of or on outstanding securities.
(c) “Security” means any stock or debenture, or any warrant, right, or option to subscribe to or purchase any of the foregoing.
(d) The terms defined in subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section do not include any stock dividend payable with respect to common stock of an industrial loan company solely (except for any cash or script paid for fractional shares) in shares of such common stock, if such industrial loan company has no other class of voting stock outstanding; provided, that shares issued in any such dividend shall be subject to any conditions previously imposed by the commissioner applicable to the shares with respect to which they are issued.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1064, Sec. 598. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative July 1, 1997.)
