Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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1 Short Title
§
2 Necessity for Regulation
3 Definitions and Application
a. Definitions
b. Power to define technical, trade, accounting, and
other...
c. Application to governmental departments or agencies
d. Issuers of municipal securities
e. Charitable organizations
f. Consideration of promotion of efficiency...
g. Church plans
§ 3A Swap Agreements
a. Non-security-based swap agreements
b. Security-based swap agreements
§ 4 Securities and Exchange Commission
a. Establishment; composition; limitations on commissioners;...
b. Appointment and compensation of staff and leasing
authority
c. Acceptance of travel support for Commission activities
from...
d. Acceptance of relocation expenses from former employers...
e. Fee payments
f. Reimbursement of expenses for assisting foreign...
§ 4A Delegation of Functions by Commission
a. Authorization; functions delegable; eligible persons;...
b. Right of review; procedure
c. Finality of delegated action
§ 4B Transfer of Functions with Respect to Assignment of...
§ 4C Appearance and Practice Before
the Commission
a. Authority To Censure
b. Definition
§ 5 Transactions on Unregistered
Exchanges
§ 6 National Securities Exchanges
a. Registration; application

b. Determination by Commission requisite to registration
of...
c. Denial of membership in national exchanges; denial
of...
d. Discipline of national securities exchange members
and...
e. Commissions, allowances, discounts, and other fees...
f. Compliance of non-members with exchange rules
g. Notice registration of security futures product exchanges
h. Trading in security futures products
i. Obligation to address duplicative regulation of dual
registrants
j. Procedures and rules for security future products
k. Obligation to address security futures products traded
on...
§ 7 Margin Requirements
a. Rules and regulations for extension of credit; standard
for...
b. Lower and higher margin requirements
c. Unlawful credit extension to customers
d. Unlawful credit extension in violation of rules and
regulations;...
e. Effective date of this section and rules and regulations
f. Unlawful receipt of credit; exemptions
g. Effect of bona fide agreement for delayed...
§ 8 Restrictions on Borrowing
and Lending by...
§ 9 Manipulation of Security Prices
a. Transactions relating to purchase or sale of security
b. Transactions relating to puts, calls, straddles,
or options
c. Endorsement or guarantee of puts, calls, straddles,
or options
d. Registered warrant, right, or convertible security
not...
e. Persons liable; suits at law or in equity
f. Subsection (a) not applicable to exempted securities
g. Foreign currencies
h. Limitations on practices that affect market volatility
i. Limitation
§ 10 Manipulative and Deceptive
Devices
§ 10A Audit Requirements
a. In general
b. Required response to audit discoveries
c. Auditor liability limitation
d. Civil penalties in cease-and-desist proceedings
e. Preservation of existing authority
f. Definitions
g. Prohibited Activities
h. Preapproval Required for Non-Audit Services
i. Preapproval Requirements
j. Audit Partner Rotation
k. Reports to Audit Committees
l. Conflicts of Interest
m. Standards Relating to Audit Committees
§ 11 Trading by Members of Exchanges,
Brokers, and Dealers
a. Trading for own account or account of associated
person;...
b. Registration of members as odd-lot dealers and specialists
c. Exemptions from provisions of section and rules and
regulations
d. Prohibition on extension of credit by broker-dealer
§ 11A National Market System
for Securities; Securities...
§ 12 Registration Requirements
for Securities
§ 13 Periodical and Other Reports
a. Reports by issuer of security; contents
b. Form of report; books, records, and internal accounting;
directives
c. Alternative reports
d. Reports by persons acquiring more than five per centum
of...
e. Purchase of securities by issuer
f. Reports by institutional investment managers
g. Statement of equity security ownership
h. Large trader reporting
i. Accuracy of Financial Reports
j. Off-Balance Sheet Transactions
k. Prohibition on Personal Loans to Executives
l. Real Time Issuer Disclosures
§ 14 Proxies
§ 15 Registration and Regulation
of Brokers and Dealers
§ 15A Registered Securities Associations
§ 15B Municipal Securities
a. Registration of municipal securities dealers
b. Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board; rules and
regulations
c. Discipline of municipal securities dealers; censure;
suspension...
d. Issuance of municipal securities
§ 15C Government Securities Brokers
and Dealers
a. Registration requirements; notice to regulatory agencies;...
b. Rules with respect to transactions in government
securities
c. Sanctions for violations
d. Records of brokers and dealers subject to examination
e. Membership in national securities exchange; exemptions
f. Large position reporting
g. Effect on other laws; authority of Commission
§ 15D Securities Analysts And
Research Reports
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§ 16 Directors, Officers, and
Principal Stockholders
§ 17 Records and Reports
a. Rules and regulations
b. Records subject to examination
c. Copies of reports filed with other regulatory agencies
d. Self-regulatory organizations
e. Balance sheet and income statement; other financial...
f. Missing, lost, counterfeit, and stolen securities
g. Persons extending credit
h. Risk assessment for holding company systems
i. Investment bank holding companies
j. Authority to limit disclosure of information
k. Coordination of examining authorities
§ 17A National System for Clearance
and Settlement...
§ 17B Automated Quotation Systems
for Penny Stocks
a. Findings
b. Mandate to facilitate establishment of automated
quotation...
c. Exemptive authority
d. Commission reporting requirements
§ 18 Liability for Misleading
Statements
a. Persons liable; persons entitled to recover; defense
of good...
b. Contribution
c. Period of limitations
§ 19 Registration, Responsibilities,
and Oversight of...
a. Registration procedures; notice of filing; other
regulatory agencies
b. Proposed rule changes; notice; proceedings
c. Amendment by Commission of rules of self-regulatory
organizations
d. Notice of disciplinary action taken by self-regulatory
organization...
e. Disposition of review; cancellation, reduction, or
remission of sanction
f. Dismissal of review proceeding
g. Compliance with rules and regulations
h. Suspension or revocation of self-regulatory organization's...
i. Appointment of trustee
§ 20 Liability of Controlling
Persons and Persons Who...
a. Joint and several liability; good faith defense
b. Unlawful activity through or by means of any other
person
c. Hindering, delaying, or obstructing the making or
filing of any...
d. Liability for trading in securities while in possession
of material...
e. Prosecution of persons who aid and abet violations
f. Limitation
§ 20A Liability to Contemporaneous
Traders for Insider...
a. Private rights of action based on contemporaneous
trading
b. Limitations on liability
c. Joint and several liability for communicating
d. Authority not to restrict other express or implied
rights of action
e. Provisions not to affect public prosecutions
§ 21 Investigations and Actions
a. Authority and discretion of Commission to investigate
violations
b. Attendance of witnesses; production of records
c. Judicial enforcement of investigative power of Commission;...
d. Injunction proceedings; authority of court to prohibit
persons...
e. Mandamus
f. Rules of self-regulatory organizations
g. Consolidation of actions; consent of Commission
h. Access to records
i. Information to CFTC
§ 21A Civil Penalties for Insider
Trading
a. Authority to impose civil penalties
b. Limitations on liability
c. Authority of Commission
d. Procedures for collection
e. Authority to award bounties to informants
f. Definition
g. Limitation
§ 21B Civil Remedies In Administrative
Proceedings
a. Commission authority to assess money penalties
b. Maximum amount of penalty
c. Determination of public interest
d. Evidence concerning ability to pay
e. Authority to enter order requiring accounting and
disgorgement
§ 21C Cease-and-Desist Proceedings
a. Authority of Commission
b. Hearing
c. Temporary order
d. Review of temporary orders
e. Authority to enter order requiring accounting and
disgorgement
f. Authority of the Commission to prohibit persons from
serving...
§ 21D Private Securities Litigation
a. Private class actions
b. Requirements for securities fraud actions
c. Sanctions for abusive litigation
d. Defendant's right to written interrogatories
e. Limitation on damages
f. Proportionate liability
§ 21E Application of Safe Harbor
for Forward-Looking...
a. Applicability
b. Exclusions
c. Safe harbor
d. Duty to update
e. Dispositive motion
f. Stay pending decision on motion
g. Exemption authority
h. Effect on other authority of Commission
i. Definitions
§ 22 Hearings by Commission
§ 23 Rules, Regulations, and Orders;
Annual Reports
a. Power to make rules and regulations; considerations;
public...
b. Reports to Congress
c. Procedure for adjudication
d. Cease-and-desist procedures
§ 24 Public Availability of Information
a. "Records" defined
b. Disclosure or personal use
c. Confidential disclosures
d. Records obtained from foreign securities authorities
e. Savings provision
§ 25 Court Review of Orders and
Rules
§ 26 Unlawful Representations
§ 27 Jurisdiction of Offenses
and Suits
§ 27A Special Provision Relating to Statute of Limitations...
§ 28 Effect on Existing Law
§ 29 Validity of Contracts
a. Waiver provisions
b. Contract provisions in violation of title
c. Validity of loans, extensions of credit, and creation
of liens;...
§ 30 Foreign Securities Exchanges
§ 30A Prohibited Foreign Trade
Practices by Issuers
a. Prohibition
b. Exception for routine governmental action
c. Affirmative defenses
d. Guidelines by Attorney General
e. Opinions of Attorney General
f. Definitions
g. Alternative jurisdiction
§ 31 Transaction Fees
a. Recovery of cost of services
b. Exchange-traded securities
c. Off-exchange trades of exchange registered and...
d. Assessments on security futures transactions
e. Dates for payments
f. Exemptions
g. Publication
h. Pro rata application
i. Deposit of Fees
j. Recapture of projection windfalls for further rate
reductions
k. Lapse of appropriation
l. Definitions
§ 32 Penalties
a. Willful violations; false and misleading statements
b. Failure to file information, documents, or reports
c. Violations by issuers, officers, directors, stockholders,
employees,...
§ 33 Separability
§ 34 Effective Date
§ 35 Authorization of Appropriations
§ 35A Requirements for the
EDGAR System
§ 36 General Exemptive Authority
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