Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 56 > Article 1 - Registration of Securities; Exemptions; Notice Filing of Federal Covered Securities

• 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
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• bank: means
  (A) a banking institution organized under the laws of the United States. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• 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.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• department: means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• depository institution: means
  (A) a bank. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• 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
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• guaranteed: means guaranteed as to payment of all principal and all interest. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• institutional investor: means any of the following, whether acting for itself or for others in a fiduciary capacity:
  (A) a depository institution, a trust company organized or chartered under the laws of this state, or an international banking institution. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• insurance company: means a company organized as an insurance company whose primary business is writing insurance or reinsuring risks underwritten by insurance companies and that is subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a similar official or agency of a state. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• insured: means insured as to payment of all principal and all interest. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• international banking institution: means an international financial institution of which the United States is a member and whose securities are exempt from registration under 15 U. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• 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
• issuer: means a person that issues or proposes to issue a security, subject to the following:
  (A) the issuer of a voting trust certificate, collateral trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, or share in an investment company without a board of directors or individuals performing similar functions is the person performing the acts and assuming the duties of depositor or manager under the trust or other agreement or instrument under which the security is issued. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• nonissuer distribution: means a transaction or distribution not directly or indirectly for the benefit of the issuer. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• offer to purchase: includes an attempt or offer to obtain, or solicitation of an offer to sell, a security or interest in a security for value. 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
• price amendment: means the amendment to a registration statement filed under 15 U. See Alaska Statutes 45.56.900
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• 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
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record,
  (A) to execute or adopt a tangible symbol. 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• subscription: includes the mark of a person who cannot write, with the name of that person written near the mark by a witness who writes the witness's own name near the name of the person who cannot write. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060