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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 21. Securities And Retail Franchising
Agency 5. State Corporation Commission, Division of Securities And Retail Franchising
Chapter 40. Exempt Securities and Transactions
11/23/2024

21VAC5-40-180. Certain options, warrants, and rights.

In accordance with § 13.1-514 A 12 of the Act, the following securities are exempt from the securities registration requirements of the Act:

1. A put or a call option contract, a warrant, or a subscription right on or with respect to a federal covered security so specified in § 18 (b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 USC § 77r(b)(1)) or by rule adopted under that provision;

2. An option or similar derivative security on a security or index of securities or foreign currencies issued by a clearing agency registered under the Securities Act of 1934 and listed or designated for trading on a national securities exchange, a facility of a national securities exchange, or a facility of a national securities association registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or an offer or sale of the underlying security in connection with the offer, sale, or exercise of an option or other security that was exempt when the option or other security was written or issued; or

3. An option or a derivative security designated by the SEC under § 9 (b) of the Securities Act of 1934 (15 USC § 78i(b)).

Statutory Authority

§ 13.1-514 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 29, Issue 20, June 3, 2013.

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