California Code
DIVISION 1 - CORPORATE SECURITIES LAW OF 968
PART 1 - DEFINITIONS

Section 25000. - 25000. This division may be known as the “Corporate Securities...

Section 25001. - 25001. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 25002. - 25002. “Advertisement” means any written or printed communication or any...

Section 25003. - 25003. (a) “Agent” means any individual, other than a broker-dealer...

Section 25003.5. - 25003.5. “Business days” are all days other than every Saturday,...

Section 25004. - 25004. (a) “Broker-dealer” means any person engaged in the business...

Section 25005. - 25005. “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation....

Section 25005.1. - 25005.1. “Entity conversion transaction” means a conversion pursuant to Section...

Section 25006. - 25006. “Fraud,” “deceit,” and “defraud” are not limited to common...

Section 25007. - 25007. “Guaranteed” means guaranteed as to payment of principal, interest,...

Section 25008. - 25008. (a) An offer or sale of a security is...

Section 25009. - 25009. (a) “Investment adviser” means any person who, for compensation,...

Section 25009.1. - 25009.1. “Investment adviser” does not include persons excepted from the...

Section 25009.5. - 25009.5. (a) “Investment adviser representative” or “associated person of an...

Section 25010. - 25010. “Issuer” means any person who issues or proposes to...

Section 25011. - 25011. “Nonissuer transaction” means any transaction not directly or indirectly...

Section 25012. - 25012. “Owners’ association” means a nonprofit corporation or association created...

Section 25013. - 25013. “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a...

Section 25014. - 25014. “Publish” means publicly to issue or circulate by newspaper,...

Section 25014.5. - 25014.5. “Rollup participant” means a finite-life limited partnership. (a) Except...

Section 25014.6. - 25014.6. “Rollup transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions...

Section 25014.7. - 25014.7. (a) “Eligible rollup transaction” means a rollup transaction in...

Section 25015. - 25015. “Real estate development” means a development (a) which consists...

Section 25016. - 25016. “Rule” means any published regulation or standard of general...

Section 25017. - 25017. (a) “Sale” or “sell” includes every contract of sale...

Section 25018. - 25018. “Securities Act of 1933,” “Securities Exchange Act of 1934,”...

Section 25019. - 25019. “Security” means any note; stock; treasury stock; membership in...

Section 25020. - 25020. “State” means any state, territory, or possession of the...

Section 25021. - 25021. “Subdivided lands” and “subdivision” have the meanings prescribed in...

Section 25022. - 25022. “Underwriter” means a person who has agreed with an...

Section 25023. - 25023. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), “viatical settlement...