California § 25104 - The following transactions are exempted from the provisions of Section 25130: (a)
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§ 25104. The following transactions are exempted from the provisions of Section 25130: (a)
The following transactions are exempted from the provisions of Section 25130: (a) Any offer or sale of a security by the bona fide owner thereof for his or her own account if the sale (1) is not accompanied by the publication of any advertisement and (2) is not effected by or through a broker-dealer in a public offering. (b) Any offer or sale effected by or through a licensed broker-dealer pursuant to an unsolicited order or offer to buy. For the purpose of this subdivision, an inquiry regarding a written bid for a security or a written solicitation of an offer to sell a security made by another broker-dealer within the previous 60 days shall not be considered the solicitation of an order or offer to buy. (c) Any offer or sale to a bank, savings and loan association, trust company, insurance company, investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, pension or profit-sharing trust (other than a pension or profit-sharing trust of the issuer, a self-employed individual retirement plan, or individual retirement account), or such other institutional investor or governmental agency or instrumentality as the commissioner may designate by rule, whether the purchaser is acting for itself or as trustee; provided the purchaser represents that it is purchasing for its own account (or for the trust account) for investment and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution of the security. (d) Any transaction or agreement between a person on whose behalf an offering is made and an underwriter or among underwriters, if the sale of the securities is exempt from qualification at the time of or qualified prior to distribution in this state, if any. (e) Any offer or sale of any security by or for the account of a bona fide secured party selling the security in the ordinary course of business to liquidate a bona fide debt. (f) Any transaction by an executor, administrator, sheriff, marshal, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, guardian, or conservator. (g) Any offer (but not a sale) of a security for which a registration statement has been filed under the Securities Act of 1933 but has not yet become effective, or for which an offering statement under Regulation A has been filed but has not yet been qualified, if no stop order or refusal order is in effect and no public proceeding or examination looking toward such an order is pending under Section 8 of that act and no order under Section 25140 or subdivision (a) of Section 25143 is in effect under this division. (h) Any offer or sale of a security if a qualification under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 25110) of this part for any securities of the same class has become effective within 18 months, or longer period as the commissioner may order provided that each consecutive order shall be for no more than six months, prior to the offer or sale or if a qualification under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 25120) or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 25130) of this part for any securities of the same class has become effective within 12 months prior to that offer or sale, provided no order under Section 25140 or subdivision (a) of Section 25143 is in effect under this division with respect to the qualification, and, provided further, that this exemption does not apply to securities offered pursuant to a registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or pursuant to an exemption under Regulation A under that act if the aggregate offering price of the securities offered under such exemption exceeds fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). The commissioner may, by rule or order, withhold this exemption with respect to securities qualified only pursuant to a limited offering qualification.
Source: official California text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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