The following securities are exempt from ORS 59.049 and 59.055:
(1)(a) A security issued or guaranteed by the United States or by a state, a political subdivision of a state or an agency or other instrumentality of any of the foregoing.
(b) Any other security offered in connection with or as part of the security set forth in paragraph (a) of this subsection if the security cannot be severed and sold separately from the security in paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(2) A security issued or guaranteed by a foreign government with which the United States is at the time of the sale maintaining diplomatic relations, or by a state, province or political subdivision thereof having the power of taxation or assessment, if the security is recognized as a valid obligation by such foreign government or state, province or political subdivision thereof.
(3) A security that represents an interest in or a direct obligation of or is guaranteed by a national bank, federal savings and loan association, federal credit union or federal land bank or joint stock land bank or national farm loan association.
(4) Any of the following securities:
(a) A security listed or approved for listing upon notice of issuance on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Midwest Stock Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange or any other exchange recognized by rule of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services;
(b) A security designated or approved for designation upon notice of issuance under the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System, Inc. National Market System;
(c) Any other security of the issuer of a security listed or designated under paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection, that is of senior or substantially equal rank to the listed or designated security;
(d) A security issuable under rights or warrants listed or approved under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection; or
(e) A warrant or right to purchase or subscribe to any security referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this subsection.
(5) A security maintaining a rating approved by the director in a recognized securities manual.
(6) A security that represents an interest in or a direct obligation of and that has been or is to be issued by a bank, trust company, savings and loan association, or credit union, that is subject to the examination, supervision and control of a regulatory agency of this state.
(7) Commercial paper issued, given or acquired in a bona fide way in the ordinary course of legitimate business, trade or commerce, when the commercial paper is not made the subject of a public offering.
(8) A security, the issuance of which is under supervision, regulation or control by the Public Utility Commission of this state, if the Public Utility Commission is exercising control over, or is regulating or supervising, the issuer thereof.
(9) Stock or membership certificates issued by an agricultural cooperative corporation or irrigation association when the stock is issued to evidence membership in the cooperative or association or as a patronage dividend and certificates issued to members or patrons by such a cooperative or association evidencing their respective interests in reserves or as patronage dividends. This exemption shall not apply to any cooperative or association that expects to engage in or is engaged in the production, processing or marketing of forest products.
(10) Stock or membership certificates issued by a fishing cooperative corporation, when the stock or certificates are issued to members of the cooperative corporation either for the purpose of showing membership in the cooperative corporation or for the purpose of showing their respective interests in reserves or patronage dividends. For purposes of this subsection, a fishing cooperative corporation is an association of persons engaged commercially in harvesting, marketing or processing products of aquatic life from fresh and salt water, that is formed or operated under ORS chapter 62 with the purpose of commercially harvesting, marketing or processing such products or engaging in group bargaining with respect to the sale of such products.
(11) Stock or membership certificates issued by an association of consumers formed or operated under ORS chapter 62 with the purpose of providing groceries to its consumer members, when the stock or certificates are issued to members either for the purpose of showing membership in the association or for the purpose of showing their respective interests in patronage dividends or reserves. For purposes of the exemption under this subsection:
(a) The price of stock or a membership certificate may not exceed $300.
(b) The benefits shall be limited to discounts on purchases or patronage dividends, or any combination of such discounts and dividends.
(c) The association may issue only one stock or membership certificate to an individual.
(12) Any security issued in connection with an employee’s stock purchase, savings, pension, profit sharing or similar employee’s benefit plan, provided:
(a) That the plan meets the requirements for qualification under section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
(b) That the terms of the plan are fair, just and equitable to employees under rules of the director.
(13) Any security issued by a person:
(a) Organized and operated exclusively for religious, educational, benevolent, fraternal, charitable or reformatory purpose and not for pecuniary profit, and no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any person, private stockholder, or individual; and
(b) Designated by rule of the director.
(14) Any other security exempted by rule of the director. [1967 c.537 §4; 1969 c.688 §1; 1973 c.428 §9; 1975 c.491 §2; 1985 c.193 §1; 1985 c.349 §2a; 1987 c.603 §1a; 1987 c.677 §9; 1989 c.171 §6; 1989 c.197 §2; 1991 c.67 §10; 1993 c.18 §14; 1997 c.772 §2]
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