(a) The commissioner may from time to time adopt, amend and rescind such regulations and forms as are necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, including regulations and forms governing registrations, applications and reports, and defining any terms, whether or not used in said sections, insofar as the definitions are not inconsistent with the provisions of said sections. For the purpose of regulations and forms, the commissioner may classify business opportunities within his jurisdiction.

(b) No regulation or form may be adopted, amended or rescinded unless the commissioner finds that the action is necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors and consistent with the purposes fairly intended by policy and provisions of sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive. In adopting regulations and forms the commissioner may cooperate with agency administrators of the other states and the Federal Trade Commission with a view to effectuating the policy of said sections to achieve maximum uniformity in the form and content of registrations, applications and reports wherever applicable.

(c) The commissioner may by regulation prescribe: (1) The form and content of financial statements required under sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive; (2) the circumstances under which consolidated financial statements shall be filed; and (3) whether any required financial statements shall be certified by independent or certified public accountants. All financial statements shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting practices.

(d) Any regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.

(e) The commissioner, or employees of the Department of Banking authorized by him, may, whether or not requested by any person, issue written advisory interpretations of sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, including interpretations of the applicability of any provision of said sections.

(f) Every hearing in an administrative proceeding shall be public.

(g) No provision of sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, imposing any liability applies to any act done or omitted in good faith in conformity with any regulation, form, order or advisory interpretation of the commissioner, notwithstanding that such regulation, form, order or advisory interpretation may later be amended or rescinded or be determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid for any reason.

(P.A. 79-458, S. 17, 19; P.A. 80-262, S. 7, 10; 80-482, S. 4, 345, 348; P.A. 87-9, S. 2, 3; P.A. 97-22, S. 20.)

History: P.A. 80-262 deleted provision in Subsec. (f) which had allowed private hearings at commissioner's discretion upon the request of all respondents; P.A. 80-482 replaced division of banking with banking department and abolished the former division's controlling agency, the department of business regulation; (Revisor's note: Pursuant to P.A. 87-9 “banking department” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “department of banking”); Sec. 36-519 transferred to Sec. 36b-77 in 1995; P.A. 97-22 made technical changes.