The following transactions are exempt from Section 1201:
(a) (1) Any offer (but not a sale) not involving a public offering by a bank organized under the laws of this state of its securities and the execution and delivery of any agreement for the sale of the securities pursuant to the offer if no part of the consideration for the securities is paid to or received by the bank and none of the securities are issued until the sale of the securities is authorized by the commissioner or exempted from authorization.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), an offer does not involve any public offering if the offers are not made to more than 25 persons and any agreement for the sale of the securities is not entered into with more than 10 of those 25 persons, and if all of the offerees either have a preexisting personal or business relationship with the bank or its officers, directors, or controlling persons, or by reason of their business or financial experience the offerees could be reasonably assumed to have the capacity to protect their own interests in connection with the transaction.
(b) Any stock split by a bank organized under the laws of this state that is effected pursuant to an amendment to its articles, an agreement of merger, or a certificate of ownership that has been approved by the commissioner, unless this exemption is withheld by order of the commissioner.
(c) Any offer or sale of securities by a bank organized under the laws of this state that is either (1) to a person actually approved by the commissioner pursuant to Section 1253 to acquire control of the bank if all of the material terms and conditions of the offer and sale of securities are disclosed in the application for approval specified in Section 1253 and the offer and sale of securities is in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of the approval to acquire control or (2) in a transaction exempted from the approval requirement of Section 1251 by a regulation or an order of the commissioner, unless this exemption is withheld by order of the commissioner.
(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 3. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)
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