South Carolina Code 35-1-606. Administrative files and opinions
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(a) The Securities Commissioner shall maintain, or designate a person to maintain, a register of applications for registration of securities; registration statements; notice filings; applications for registration of broker-dealers, agents, investment advisers, and investment adviser representatives; notice filings by federal covered investment advisers that are or have been effective under this chapter or the predecessor chapter; notices of claims of exemption from registration or notice filing requirements contained in a record; orders issued under this chapter or the predecessor chapter; and interpretative opinions or no action determinations issued under this chapter.
(b) The Securities Commissioner shall make all rules, forms, interpretative opinions, and orders available to the public.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 35-1-606
- 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.
- Filing: means the receipt under this chapter of a record by the Securities Commissioner or a designee of the Securities Commissioner. See South Carolina Code 35-1-102
- Investment adviser: means a person that, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or the advisability of investing in, purchasing, or selling securities or that, for compensation and as a part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities. See South Carolina Code 35-1-102
- Person: means an individual; corporation; business trust; estate; trust; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See South Carolina Code 35-1-102
- Predecessor chapter: means Chapter 1 of Title 35 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, 1976, prior to its amendment by the adoption of the South Carolina Uniform Securities Act of 2005. See South Carolina Code 35-1-102
- public record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See South Carolina Code 35-1-102
- Securities Commissioner: means the Attorney General. See South Carolina Code 35-1-102
(c) The Securities Commissioner shall furnish a copy of a record that is a public record or a certification that the public record does not exist to a person that so requests. A rule adopted or order issued under this chapter may establish a reasonable charge for furnishing the record or certification. A copy of the record certified or a certificate by the Securities Commissioner of a record’s nonexistence is prima facie evidence of a record or its nonexistence.