SECTIONS 5950-5955 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 5950-5955

5950. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Accredited investor" has the meaning specified in Rule 501 of
the Securities Act of 1933.
(b) "In this state" has the meaning specified in Section 25008 of
the Corporations Code.
(c) "Issuer" has the meaning specified in Section 25010 of the
Corporations Code.
(d) "Issuer transaction" means any transaction directly or
indirectly for the benefit of the issuer. A transaction is indirectly
for the benefit of the issuer if any portion of the purchase price
of any security constituting a fractional interest in a lease,
installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency involved in
the transaction will be received indirectly by the issuer. An offer
or sale that involves both an issuer transaction and a transaction
that is not an issuer transaction shall be treated as separate
transactions.
(e) "Knowingly" means that a person, with respect to an offer or
sale of a security constituting a fractional interest in a lease,
installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency, does any of
the following:
(1) Has actual knowledge that the local agency has not consented
to the offer or sale of such security.
(2) Acts in deliberate ignorance of whether or not the local
agency has consented to the offer or sale of that security.
(3) Acts in reckless disregard of whether or not the local agency
has consented to the offer or sale of that security.
Proof of specific intent to violate Section 5951 is not required.
(f) "Local agency" means a city, county, city and county, school
district, special district, public corporation, or other public
entity of this state.
(g) "Person" has the meaning specified in Section 25013 of the
Corporations Code.
(h) "Qualified institutional buyer" has the meaning specified in
Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933.
(i) "Sale," "sell," "offer," and "offer to sell" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 25017 of the Corporations
Code.
(j) "Security" has the meaning specified in Section 25019 of the
Corporations Code.
(k) "Securities Act of 1933" and "Investment Company Act of 1940"
means the federal statutes of those names as amended before or after
the effective date of this chapter.

5951. It is unlawful for any person to offer or sell in an issuer
transaction in this state, or otherwise knowingly to offer or sell in
this state, any security constituting a fractional interest in a
lease, installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency
without obtaining the prior written consent of that local agency to
that offer or sale. However, this section shall not apply to any of
the following:
(a) Any security that constitutes a fractional interest in a
lease, installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency and
that was first issued and sold prior to October 2, 1993.
(b) Offers or sales of shares or interests in any registered unit
investment trust or management company, each as defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940.
(c) Any security that constitutes a fractional interest in a
lease, installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency and
that is registered under the Securities Act of 1933.
(d) Offers or sales of any security described in this section
subsequent to an offer or sale of that security in compliance with
this section.
(e) Offers or sales of participation interests between financial
institutions.
(f) Any security that constitutes a fractional interest in a
lease, installment sale, or other obligation of a local agency and
that is created concurrently with, and as an integral part of, a
financing to which the local agency is a party.
(g) Offers or sales of any security that constitutes a fractional
interest in a lease, installment sale, or other obligation of a local
agency made solely to one or more persons who are reasonably
believed to be qualified institutional buyers or accredited
investors.
(h) Any security that was first issued and sold prior to the
effective date of this section if that security is either described
in subdivision (b), (c), or (f), or was issued and sold in a
transaction described in subdivision (d), (e), or (g).

5952. Any consent granted by a local agency under Section 5951
shall be conclusively evidenced by a resolution of the governing body
of the local agency, or by a written instrument executed on behalf
of the local agency by its treasurer, chief financial officer, or
purchasing agent, or by any other officer of the local agency
authorized by resolution of the governing body thereof to grant
consents under Section 5951.

5953. No local agency that consents to an offer or sale of a
security that constitutes a fractional interest in a lease,
installment sale, or other obligation of the local agency shall be
required to review any proceedings relating to the creation of the
security or any of the offering or placement memoranda or any other
marketing or descriptive materials relating to the security, and all
memoranda or materials shall include a prominent statement on the
face thereof substantially to the effect that the consenting local
agency (specified by name) has not reviewed any of the proceedings
relating to the creation of the security or any of the offering or
placement memoranda or other marketing materials relating thereto.

5954. Any person who violates this chapter shall upon conviction be
fined not more than ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or imprisoned
in the state prison for five years, or be punished by both that fine
and imprisonment.

5955. The obtaining of local agency consent to an offer or sale of
a security under Section 5951 shall not obviate the necessity of
qualification of the offer or sale of such security under Division 1
(commencing with Section 25000) of Title 4 of the Corporations Code,
unless the security or transaction is exempt from qualification under
such law.