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Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 5. GEORGIA UNIFORM SECURITIES · Article 5. VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES, AND CIVIL LIABILITY

10-5-53. Order or rule may require filing of prospectus and additional information.

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  1. (a)

    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a rule adopted or order issued under this chapter may require the filing of a prospectus, pamphlet, circular, form letter, advertisement, sales literature, or other advertising record relating to a security or investment advice, addressed or intended for distribution to prospective investors, including clients or prospective clients of a person registered or required to be registered as an investment adviser under this chapter.#

  2. (b)

    This Code section does not apply to sales and advertising literature specified in subsection (a) of this Code section which relates to a federal covered security, a federal covered investment adviser, or a security or transaction exempted by Code Sections 10-5-10 through 10-5-12, except as required pursuant to paragraph (7) of Code Section 10-5-10.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 10-5-53, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 381, § 1/SB 358.

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