Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 56 > Article 3 - Fraud and Liabilities

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• administrator: means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development or a designee of the commissioner. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• agent: means an individual, other than a broker-dealer, who represents a broker-dealer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities or represents an issuer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of the issuer's securities. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• broker-dealer: means a person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the accounts of others or for the person's own account. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• deceit: include common law deceit. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• defraud: includes engaging in common law deceit. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• federal covered investment adviser: means a person registered under 15 U. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• federal covered security: means a security that is, or upon completion of a transaction will be, a covered security under 15 U. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• filing: means the receipt under this chapter of a record by the administrator or a designee of the administrator. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• investment adviser: includes a financial planner or other person that, as an integral component of other financially related services, provides investment advice to others for compensation as part of a business or that holds itself out as providing investment advice to others for compensation. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• investment adviser representative: means an individual employed by or associated with an investment adviser or federal covered investment adviser and who makes any recommendations or otherwise gives investment advice regarding securities, manages accounts or portfolios of clients, determines which recommendation or advice regarding securities should be given, provides investment advice or offers to provide investment advice, receives compensation to solicit, offer, or negotiate for the sale of or for selling investment advice, or supervises employees who perform any of the foregoing. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, a limited partnership, a limited liability partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a trust in which the interests of the beneficiaries are evidenced by a security, an unincorporated organization, a government, or a political subdivision of a government. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• sale: includes every contract of sale, contract to sell, or disposition of a security or interest in a security for value, and "offer to sell" includes every attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an offer to purchase, a security or interest in a security for value. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Securities and Exchange Commission: means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• security: means a note. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• self-regulatory organization: means a national securities exchange registered under 15 U. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• state: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900