(a) Every registered broker-dealer and investment adviser shall make and keep such accounts, correspondence, memoranda, papers, books, and other records as the commissioner by rule prescribes. All records so required shall be preserved for three (3) years unless the commissioner by rule prescribes otherwise for particular types of records.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 48-1-111

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Broker-dealer: means any person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others, or any person engaged in the business of buying or selling securities issued by one (1) or more other persons for such person's own account and as part of a regular business rather than in connection with such person's investment activities. See Tennessee Code 48-1-102
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 48-1-102
  • Document: means :
    (A) Any tangible medium on which information is inscribed, and includes any writing or written instrument. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Interest: means either or both of the following rights under the organic law of an unincorporated entity:
    (A) The right to receive distributions from the entity either in the ordinary course or upon liquidation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
  • Investment adviser: includes a financial planner or other person who, as an integral component of other financially related services, provides investment advice to others for compensation as part of a business or who holds oneself out as providing investment advice to others for compensation. See Tennessee Code 48-1-102
  • Person: means a natural person, a sole proprietorship, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a limited liability company, a joint-stock company, a trust, a governmental entity or agency, or any other unincorporated organization. See Tennessee Code 48-1-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Every registered broker-dealer and investment adviser shall file such financial reports and other documents as the commissioner by rule prescribes.
(c) If the information contained in any document filed with the commissioner is or becomes inaccurate or incomplete in any material respect, the registrant shall promptly file a correcting amendment.
(d)

(1) All the records referred to in subsection (a) are subject at any time and from time to time to such reasonable periodic, special, or other examinations, within or outside of this state, by representatives of the commissioner, as the commissioner deems necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors.
(2) The cost of such examination shall be borne by the person examined and shall include the expenses of the commissioner or the commissioner’s deputy and the expenses and compensation of the commissioner’s assistants employed in the examination; provided, that not more than two (2) such examinations shall be charged to such person in any twelve-month period.
(3) For the purpose of avoiding unnecessary duplication of examinations, the commissioner, insofar as the commissioner deems it practicable in administering this subsection (d), may cooperate with the securities administrators of other states, the securities and exchange commission, any national securities exchange or national securities association registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 78a et seq.), as amended, or any securities administrators’ association.
(4) All working papers, recorded information, documents, and required records and copies of working papers, recorded information, documents, and required records produced by, obtained by, or disclosed to the commissioner or another person in the course of an examination made under this chapter are confidential and must not be made public by the commissioner or another person. This subdivision (d)(4) does not prohibit the commissioner from disclosing the content of an examination as provided in this subdivision (d)(4).
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