2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 078 - Investment Securities
Section 78.1030 - Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets.


(2) An "investment company security" is a security. "Investment company security" means a share or similar equity interest issued by an entity that is registered as an investment company under the federal investment company laws, an interest in a unit investment trust that is so registered or a face-amount certificate issued by a face-amount certificate company that is so registered. "Investment company security" does not include an insurance policy, endowment policy or annuity contract issued by an insurance company.
(3) An interest in a partnership or limited liability company is not a security unless it is dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or in securities markets, its terms expressly provide that it is a security governed by this chapter or it is an investment company security. However, an interest in a partnership or limited liability company is a financial asset if it is held in a securities account.
(4) A writing that is a security certificate is governed by this chapter and not by ORS chapter 73, even though it also meets the requirements of that chapter. However, a negotiable instrument governed by ORS chapter 73 is a financial asset if it is held in a securities account.
(5) An option or similar obligation issued by a clearing corporation to its participants is not a security, but is a financial asset.
(6) A commodity contract, as defined in ORS 79.0102, is not a security or a financial asset.
(7) A document of title is not a financial asset unless ORS 78.1020 (1)(i)(A)(iii) applies. [1961 c.726 §78.1030; 1985 c.676 §78.1030; 1995 c.328 §3; 2001 c.445 §151; 2009 c.181 §90]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 02 - Business Organizations, Commercial Code

Chapter 078 - Investment Securities

Section 78.1020 - Definitions and index of definitions.

Section 78.1030 - Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets.

Section 78.1040 - Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.

Section 78.1050 - Notice of adverse claim.

Section 78.1060 - Control.

Section 78.1070 - Whether indorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective.

Section 78.1080 - Warranties in direct holding.

Section 78.1090 - Warranties in indirect holding.

Section 78.1100 - Applicability; choice of law.

Section 78.1110 - Clearing corporation rules.

Section 78.1120 - Creditor’s legal process.

Section 78.1140 - Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.

Section 78.1150 - Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.

Section 78.2010 - "Issuer."

Section 78.2020 - Terms of security; issuer’s responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.

Section 78.2030 - Staleness as notice of defects or defenses.

Section 78.2040 - Effect of issuer’s restriction on transfer.

Section 78.2050 - Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.

Section 78.2060 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.

Section 78.2070 - Rights of issuer with respect to registered owners.

Section 78.2080 - Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent.

Section 78.2100 - Overissue.

Section 78.3010 - Delivery.

Section 78.3020 - Rights of purchaser.

Section 78.3030 - "Protected purchaser."

Section 78.3040 - Indorsement.

Section 78.3050 - Instruction.

Section 78.3060 - Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement or instruction.

Section 78.4010 - Duty of issuer to register transfer.

Section 78.4020 - Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.

Section 78.4030 - Demand that issuer not register transfer.

Section 78.4040 - Wrongful registration.

Section 78.4050 - Replacement of lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken security certificate.

Section 78.5010 - Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary.

Section 78.5030 - Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary.

Section 78.5040 - Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.

Section 78.5050 - Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.

Section 78.5060 - Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder.

Section 78.5070 - Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.

Section 78.5080 - Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder’s position to other form of security holding.

Section 78.5090 - Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute or regulation; manner of performance of duties of securities intermediary and exercise of rights of entitlement holder.

Section 78.5100 - Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.

Section 78.5110 - Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.