2005 Idaho Code - 30-1506 — FRAUDULENT CONDUCT -- LIABILITY OF PRINCIPALS, CONTROLLING PERSONS AND OTHERS

                                  TITLE  30
                                 CORPORATIONS
                                  CHAPTER 15
                             IDAHO COMMODITY CODE
    30-1506.  FRAUDULENT CONDUCT -- LIABILITY OF PRINCIPALS, CONTROLLING
PERSONS AND OTHERS. (1) It is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly,
in connection with a commodity contract or commodity option:
    (a)  To employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud;
    (b)  To make any false report, enter any false record or make any untrue
    statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in
    order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under
    which they were made, not misleading;
    (c)  To engage in any transaction, act, practice or course of business
    which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person; or
    (d)  To misappropriate or convert the funds, security or property of any
    other person.
    (2)  The act, omission or failure of any person acting for any individual,
association, partnership, corporation or trust within the scope of the
person's employment or office shall be deemed the act, omission or failure of
the individual, association, partnership, corporation or trust, as well as of
the person.
    (3)  Every person who directly or indirectly controls another person
liable under any provision of this chapter, every partner, officer, or
director of such other person, every person occupying a similar status or
performing similar functions, every employee of such other person who
materially aids in the violation is also liable jointly and severally with and
to the same extent as such other person, unless the person who is also liable
by virtue of this provision sustains the burden of proof that he did not know,
and in exercise of reasonable care could not have known, of the existence of
the facts by reason of which the liability is alleged to exist.