(a) It is unlawful for any person to transact business in this State as a broker-dealer or agent unless the person is registered under this chapter.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-301

  • Agent: means any individual, other than a broker-dealer, who represents a broker-dealer or issuer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Broker-dealer: means any person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others or for the broker-dealer's own account. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Director: means the Investor Protection Director, the principal executive officer of the Investor Protection Unit designated in § 73-102 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Federal covered adviser: means a person who is registered under § 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 [15 U. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Investment adviser: means any person who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or as to the advisability of investing in, purchasing or selling securities, or who, for compensation and as a part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Investment adviser representative: means any partner, officer, director (or a person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions) or other individual, except clerical or ministerial personnel, who is employed by or associated with an investment adviser that is registered or required to be registered under this chapter, or who has a place of business located in this State and is employed by or associated with a federal covered adviser; and who does any of following: (A) makes any recommendations or otherwise renders advice regarding securities, (B) manages accounts or portfolios of clients, (C) determines which recommendation or advice regarding securities should be given, (D) solicits, offers or negotiates for the sale of or sells investment advisory services, or (E) supervises employees who perform any of the foregoing. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Issuer: means any person who issues or proposes to issue any security. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust where the interests of the beneficiaries are evidenced by a security, an unincorporated organization, a government, or a political subdivision of a government. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 73-103
  • State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

(b) It is unlawful for any broker-dealer or issuer to employ an agent unless the agent is registered.

(c) It is unlawful for any person to transact business in this State as an investment adviser or as an investment adviser representative unless:

(1) The person is registered under this chapter; or

(2) The person has no place of business in this State; and

a. The person’s only clients in this State are investment companies as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq.], other investment advisers, federal covered advisers, broker-dealers, banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, insurance companies, employee benefit plans with assets of not less than $1,000,000, and governmental agencies or instrumentalities, whether acting for themselves or as trustees with investment control, or other institutional investors as are designated by rule or order of the Director; or

b. During the preceding 12-month period has had not more than 5 clients, other than those specified in paragraph (c)(2)a. of this section, who are residents of this State.

(d) It is unlawful for any person required to be registered as an investment adviser under this chapter to employ an investment adviser representative unless the investment adviser representative is registered under this chapter.

(e) It is unlawful for any federal covered adviser to employ, supervise or associate with an investment adviser representative having a place of business located in this State unless such investment adviser representative is registered under this chapter or is exempt from registration.

(f) Except with respect to advisers whose only clients are those described in paragraph (c)(2) of this section, it is unlawful for any federal covered adviser to conduct advisory business in this State unless such person complies with the provisions of § 73-302(g) through (k) of this title. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, until October 10, 1999, the Director may require the registration of any federal covered adviser for which fees required by § 73-302 have not been paid promptly following written notification from the Director regarding the nonpayment or underpayment of any such fee. A federal covered adviser shall be considered to have promptly paid such fees if they are remitted to the Director within 15 days following such person’s receipt of written notification from the Director.

6 Del. C. 1953, § ?7313; 59 Del. Laws, c. 208, § ?1; 63 Del. Laws, c. 161, § ?1; 68 Del. Laws, c. 181, § ?14; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 162, § ?15; 78 Del. Laws, c. 175, §§ ?41-48, 98, 118; 79 Del. Laws, c. 182, § ?3;

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