No action shall be maintained to enforce any liability created under section 77k or 77(a)(2) of this title unless brought within one year after the discovery of the untrue statement or the omission, or after such discovery should have been made by the exercise of reasonable diligence, or, if the action is to enforce a liability created under section 77(a)(1) of this title, unless brought within one year after the violation upon which it is based. In no event shall any such action be brought to enforce a liability created under section 77k or 77(a)(1) of this title more than three years after the security was bona fide offered to the public, or under section 77(a)(2) of this title more than three years after the sale.
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CHAPTER 2A— SECURITIES AND TRUST INDENTURES
SUBCHAPTER I— DOMESTIC SECURITIES
§ 77b. Definitions; promotion of efficiency, competition, and capital formation
§ 77c. Classes of securities under this subchapter
§ 77d–1. Requirements with respect to certain small transactions
§ 77e. Prohibitions relating to interstate commerce and the mails
§ 77f. Registration of securities
§ 77g. Information required in registration statement
§ 77h. Taking effect of registration statements and amendments thereto
§ 77h–1. Cease-and-desist proceedings
§ 77j. Information required in prospectus
§ 77k. Civil liabilities on account of false registration statement
§ 77l. Civil liabilities arising in connection with prospectuses and communications
§ 77n. Contrary stipulations void
§ 77o. Liability of controlling persons
§ 77p. Additional remedies; limitation on remedies
§ 77q. Fraudulent interstate transactions
§ 77r. Exemption from State regulation of securities offerings
§ 77r–1. Preemption of State law
§ 77s. Special powers of Commission
§ 77t. Injunctions and prosecution of offenses
§ 77v. Jurisdiction of offenses and suits
§ 77w. Unlawful representations
§ 77y. Jurisdiction of other Government agencies over securities
§ 77z–1. Private securities litigation
§ 77z–2. Application of safe harbor for forward-looking statements
§ 77z–2a. Conflicts of interest relating to certain securitizations
§ 77z–3. General exemptive authority
§ 77aa. Schedule of information required in registration statement