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NV Rev Stat § 90.223 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.223 - "Commission" defined.

  1. "Commission" means:  (a) Any payment of cash, securities or goods for offering to sell or selling a security; or  (b) A promise or commitment to provide any payment of cash, securities or goods in the future for offering to sell or selling a security.  2. The term does not include:  (a) A commission paid to a real estate broker solely for services relating to the sale, purchase, rental or lease of real estate if the commission is commensurate with fees paid in the community for similar services.  (b) Any payment made to an attorney or accountant for any advice or recommendation relating to the purchase, sale or other transfer of securities that is given to a client with whom the attorney or accountant has a professional relationship if the payment and the interest of the attorney or accountant in the transaction or in the issuer or an affiliate of the issuer are disclosed in writing to the client before the sale or transfer of the securities.  (Added to NRS by 1997, 499)
NV Rev Stat § 90.225 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.225 - "Depository institution" defined.

  1. "Depository institution" means:  (a) A person that is organized, chartered or holding an authorization certificate under the laws of a state or of the United States which authorizes the person to receive deposits, including a savings, share, certificate or deposit account, and that is supervised and examined for the protection of depositors by an official or agency of a state or the United States; and  (b) A trust company or other institution that is authorized by federal or state law to exercise fiduciary powers of the type a national bank is permitted to exercise under the authority of the comptroller of the currency and is supervised and examined by an official or agency of a state or the United States.  2. "Depository institution" does not include an insurance company or other organization primarily engaged in the insurance business or a Morris Plan bank, industrial loan company, or a similar bank or company unless its deposits are insured by a federal agency.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2149; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.230 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.230 - "Division" defined.

Division means the Securities Division of the Office of the Secretary of State.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2150; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.235 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.235 - "Filing" and "file" defined.

  1. "Filing" means:  (a) The actual delivery of a record or application to the Administrator or the designee of the Administrator or to the principal office of the Administrator; or  (b) The electronic delivery of a record or application to the Administrator or the designee of the Administrator or to the principal office of the Administrator using a system that has been approved by the Administrator.  2. "File" has a corresponding meaning.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2150; A 1989, 160; 1997, 495; 2003, 3162)
NV Rev Stat § 90.240 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.240 - "Financial or institutional investor" defined.

Financial or institutional investor means any of the following, whether acting for itself or others in a fiduciary capacity other than as an agent:  1. A depository institution;  2. An insurance company;  3. A separate account of an insurance company;  4. An investment company as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940;  5. An employee pension, profit-sharing, or benefit plan if the plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000 or its investment decisions are made by a named fiduciary, as defined in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, that is either a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, an investment adviser registered or exempt from registration under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, a depository institution, or an insurance company; and  6. Any other institutional buyer.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2150; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.245 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.245 - "Fraud," "deceit" and "defraud" defined.

Fraud, "deceit" and "defraud" are not limited to common-law fraud or deceit.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2150; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.250 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.250 - "Investment adviser" defined.

Investment adviser means any person who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others 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. The term does not include:  1. An employee of an adviser;  2. A depository institution;  3. A lawyer, accountant, engineer or teacher whose performance of investment advisory services is solely incidental to the practice of the person’s profession;  4. A broker-dealer whose performance of investment advisory services is solely incidental to the conduct of business as a broker-dealer and who receives no special compensation for the investment advisory services;  5. A publisher, employee or columnist of a newspaper, news magazine or business or financial publication, or an owner, operator, producer or employee of a cable, radio or television network, station or production facility if, in either case, the financial or business news published or disseminated is made available to the general public and the content does not consist of rendering advice on the basis of the specific investment situation of each client;  6. A person whose advice, analyses or reports relate only to securities exempt under paragraph (a) of subsection 2 of NRS 90.520;  7. A family trust company or licensed family trust company or an employee or agent of a family trust company or licensed family trust company that is engaged in the business of a family trust company or licensed family trust company pursuant to chapter 669A of NRS, and that is exempt from registration as an investment adviser pursuant to the federal Investment Advisers Act of 1940; or  8. Any other person the Administrator by regulation or order designates.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2150; A 1989, 160; 2011, 1817)
NV Rev Stat § 90.255 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.255 - "Issuer" defined.

Issuer means a person who issues or proposes to issue a security, except that:  1. The "issuer" of a collateral trust certificate, voting trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security or share in an investment company without a board of directors or persons performing similar functions, is the person or persons performing the acts and assuming the duties of depositor or manager pursuant to the provisions of the trust or other agreement or instrument under which the security is issued;  2. The "issuer" of an equipment trust certificate, including a conditional sales contract, or similar security serving the same purpose, is the person to whom the equipment or property is or is to be leased or conditionally sold; and  3. The "issuer" of a fractional undivided interest in an oil, gas or other mineral lease or in payments out of production under such a lease, right or royalty is the owner of an interest in the lease or in payments out of such production, whether whole or fractional, who creates fractional interests for the purpose of sale.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2151; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.260 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.260 - "Nonissuer transaction" defined.

Nonissuer transaction means a transaction not directly or indirectly for the benefit of the issuer.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2151; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.265 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.265 - "Person" defined.

Person includes a government, governmental agency or political subdivision of a government.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2151; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.270 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.270 - "Price amendment" defined.

Price amendment means the amendment to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act of 1933 or, if no amendment is filed, the prospectus or prospectus supplement filed under the Securities Act of 1933, which includes a statement of the offering price, underwriting and selling discounts or commissions, amount of proceeds, conversion rates, call prices and other matters dependent upon the offering price.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2151; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.275 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.275 - "Promoter" defined.

Promoter includes:  1. A person who, acting alone or in concert with one or more other persons, takes the entrepreneurial initiative in founding or organizing the business or enterprise of an issuer;  2. An officer or director who owns any securities of an issuer or any person who owns, beneficially or of record, 10 percent or more of any class of securities of the issuer if the officer, director or other person acquires any of those securities within 3 years before the issuer files a registration under this chapter in a transaction which does not possess the indicia of bargaining at arm’s length; and  3. A member of the immediate family of a person within subsection 1 or 2 if the member received the securities in a transaction which does not possess the indicia of bargaining at arm’s length.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2151; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.276 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.276 - "Provider of viatical settlements" defined.

Provider of viatical settlements has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 688C.080.  (Added to NRS by 2009, 1824)
NV Rev Stat § 90.278 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.278 - "Representative of an investment adviser" defined.

  1. "Representative of an investment adviser" means any person employed by or associated with an investment adviser who:  (a) Provides advice concerning securities;  (b) Manages accounts or portfolios of clients;  (c) Determines the advice concerning securities that is offered to clients;  (d) Solicits for the sale of investment advice, unless the person is a sales representative licensed pursuant to this chapter;  (e) Sells, offers to sell or negotiates for the sale of investment advice; or  (f) Supervises employees who engage in the activities described in paragraphs (a) to (e), inclusive.  2. The term does not include:  (a) A broker-dealer;  (b) An investment adviser; and  (c) A person employed by or associated with an investment adviser who provides clerical or administrative services.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 1441)
NV Rev Stat § 90.280 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.280 - "Sale" and "sell" defined.

Sale includes every contract of sale, contract to sell, or other disposition, of a security or interest in a security for value. "Sell" has a corresponding meaning. In this context:  1. "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.  2. "Offer to purchase" includes every attempt or offer to obtain, or solicitation of an offer to sell, a security or interest in a security for value, but the term does not include a transaction that is subject to section 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  3. A security given or delivered with, or as a bonus on account of, a purchase of securities or other item is considered to constitute a part of the subject of the purchase and to have been offered for sale and sold for value.  4. A gift of assessable stock is deemed to involve an offer and sale.  5. A sale or offer of a warrant or right to purchase or subscribe to another security of the same or another issuer, or a sale or offer of a security that gives the holder a present or future right or privilege to convert into another security of the same of another issuer, is deemed to include an offer of the other security.  6. The terms defined in this section do not include:  (a) The creation of a security interest or a loan;  (b) A stock dividend, whether the corporation distributing the dividend is the issuer of the stock or not, if:  (1) The distribution of the dividend is not for the purpose of evading the provisions of this chapter governing the registration of securities; and  (2) Nothing of value is given by the stockholders for the dividend other than the surrender of a right to a cash or property dividend and each stockholder may elect to take the dividend in cash, property or stock; or  (c) An act incident to a judicially approved reorganization in which a security is issued in exchange for one or more outstanding securities, claims or property interests, or partly in exchange and partly for cash.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2152; A 1989, 160; 1991, 593)
NV Rev Stat § 90.285 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.285 - "Sales representative" defined.

Sales representative means a natural person other than a broker-dealer, authorized to act and acting for a broker-dealer or issuer effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities. A partner, officer or director of a broker-dealer or issuer, or a person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions, is a sales representative only if he or she otherwise comes within the definition.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2152; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.290 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.290 - "Securities Act of 1933," "Securities Exchange Act of 1934," "Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935," "Investment Company Act of 1940," "Investment Advisers Act of 1940," "Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," "National Housing Act" and "Commodity Exchange Act" defined.

Securities Act of 1933, "Securities Exchange Act of 1934," "Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935," "Investment Company Act of 1940," "Investment Advisers Act of 1940," "Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," "National Housing Act" and "Commodity Exchange Act" mean the federal statutes of those names as amended.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2152; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.292 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.292 - "Securities exchange" defined.

Securities exchange means any organization, association or group of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, located within this State which constitutes, maintains or provides a marketplace, facilities or electronic communications equipment for bringing together purchasers and sellers of securities or for otherwise performing with respect to securities the functions commonly performed by a stock exchange as that term is generally understood. The term includes the marketplace, facilities and electronic communications equipment used by such an exchange.  (Added to NRS by 1993, 2414)
NV Rev Stat § 90.295 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.295 - "Security" defined.

Security means a note, stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement, a limited partnership interest, an interest in a limited-liability company, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, viatical settlement investment, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in an oil, gas or other mineral lease or in payments out of production of such a lease, right or royalty, a put, call, straddle or option on a security, certificate of deposit or group or index of securities including any interest therein or based on the value of any of the foregoing, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a security or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, whole or partial guarantee of or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the foregoing. The term does not include:  1. An insurance or endowment policy or annuity contract under which an insurance company promises to pay a fixed sum of money either in a lump sum or periodically for life or some other specified period; or  2. An interest in a contributory or noncontributory pension or welfare plan subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2152; A 1989, 160; 1995, 1442; 2009, 1825)
NV Rev Stat § 90.300 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.300 - "Self-regulatory organization" defined.

Self-regulatory organization means a national securities exchange registered under section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a national association of brokers and dealers registered under section 15A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a clearing agency registered under section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board established under section 15B(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or section 21 of the Commodity Exchange Act.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2153; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.305 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.305 - "State" defined.

State means a state, commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia or the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2153; A 1989, 160)
NV Rev Stat § 90.307 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.307 - "Transfer agent" defined.

Transfer agent means any person who, for a fee, performs the service of registering the transfer of securities that do not trade on the New York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange or in the over-the-counter market, if the price quotations for the over-the-counter stock are quoted by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations System (NASDAQ).  (Added to NRS by 2007, 1337)
NV Rev Stat § 90.308 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.308 - "Viatical settlement investment" defined.

Viatical settlement investment means the contractual right to receive a specified portion of the death benefit or ownership of a life insurance policy or certificate in exchange for consideration that is less than the dollar amount of the expected death benefit of the life insurance policy or certificate. The term does not include:  1. A transaction between a viator and a provider of viatical settlements;  2. A transfer of ownership or beneficial interest in a life insurance policy from a provider of viatical settlements to another provider of viatical settlements, or to a legal entity formed solely for the purpose of holding ownership or beneficial interest in a life insurance policy or policies;  3. The bona fide assignment of a life insurance policy to a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union or other licensed lending institution as collateral for a loan; or  4. The exercise of accelerated benefits pursuant to the terms of a life insurance policy issued in accordance with title 57 of NRS.  (Added to NRS by 2009, 1824)
NV Rev Stat § 90.309 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.309 - "Viator" defined.

Viator has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 688C.150, except that for the purposes of this chapter, a viator need not be a resident of this State.  (Added to NRS by 2009, 1825)
NV Rev Stat § 90.310 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.310 - Licensing of broker-dealers, sales representatives and transfer agents.

  1. It is unlawful for any person to transact business in this State as a broker-dealer or sales representative unless licensed or exempt from licensing under this chapter.  2. It is unlawful for any issuer or any broker-dealer licensed under this chapter to employ or contract with a person as a sales representative within this State unless the sales representative is licensed or exempt from licensing under this chapter.  3. It is unlawful for any person to transact business in this State as a transfer agent unless licensed or exempt from licensing under this chapter.  4. It is unlawful for a broker-dealer or an issuer engaged in offering securities in this State to employ or contract with, in connection with any of the broker-dealer’s or issuer’s activities in this State, any person who is suspended or barred from association with a broker-dealer or investment adviser by the Administrator. A broker-dealer or issuer does not violate this subsection unless the broker-dealer or issuer knows or in the exercise of reasonable care should know of the suspension or bar. Upon request from a broker-dealer or issuer, and for good cause shown, the Administrator by order may waive the prohibition of this subsection with respect to a particular person who has been suspended or barred.  5. It is unlawful for any person licensed pursuant to this chapter to share, divide or apportion fees with a person who is effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities and is not licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2153; A 1989, 151; 1995, 1442; 2007, 1337)
NV Rev Stat § 90.320 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 90 - Securities (Uniform Act)|NRS 90.320 - Exempt broker-dealers and sales representatives.

  1. The following broker-dealers are exempt from licensing under NRS 90.310:  (a) A broker-dealer who is registered or, is not required to be registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and who has no place of business in this State if:  (1) The transactions effected by the broker-dealer in this State are exclusively with the issuer of the securities involved in the transactions, other broker-dealers licensed or exempt under this chapter, and financial or institutional investors;  (2) The broker-dealer is licensed under the securities laws of a state in which the broker-dealer maintains a place of business and the broker-dealer offers and sells in this State to a person who is an existing customer of the broker-dealer and whose principal place of residence is not in this State; or  (3) The broker-dealer is licensed under the securities laws of a state in which the broker-dealer maintains a place of business and during any 12 consecutive months the broker-dealer does not effect transactions with more than five persons in this State in addition to the transactions with the issuers of the securities involved in the transactions, financial or institutional investors, or broker-dealers, whether or not the offeror or an offeree is then present in this State.  (b) Other broker-dealers the Administrator by regulation or order exempts.  2. The following sales representatives are exempt from licensing under NRS 90.310:  (a) A sales representative acting for a broker-dealer exempt under subsection 1;  (b) A sales representative acting for an issuer in effecting transactions in a security exempted by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (k), (l) or (m) of subsection 2 of NRS 90.520;  (c) A sales representative acting for an issuer effecting offers or sales of securities in transactions exempted by NRS 90.530;  (d) A sales representative acting for an issuer effecting transactions with employees, partners, officers or directors of the issuer, a parent or a wholly owned subsidiary of the issuer, if no commission or other similar compensation is paid or given directly or indirectly to the sales representative for soliciting an employee, partner, officer or director in this State; and  (e) Other sales representatives the Administrator by regulation or order exempts.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 2153; A 1989, 151; 1991, 189)