Section 4702 of this title shall not apply to:
(1) Sales of securities not involving a public offering, that is, sales on which no commission is payable resulting from offers privately made to not over 20 persons (other than banks, savings associations, investment companies registered as such under the Investment Companies Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. § 80a-1], registered securities dealers, investment houses and other financial institutions) within a 12-month period and where all persons (including such banks, associations, companies, dealers, houses and institutions) so acquiring such securities do so for investment purposes only and not with a view to further distribution.
(2) Sales of securities by an insurance holding corporation for purposes which do not include that of financing, directly or indirectly, an insurer.
(3) Stock of the insurer or insurance holding corporation to be offered and sold without payment of commission thereon exclusively to directors, employees and agents of the insurer or corporation or any of them under stock options granted pursuant to a written lawful plan therefor adopted by the board of directors and approved by a majority of the stock of the issuer corporation having voting rights, and which plan has been filed with the Commissioner.
(4) Securities issued or proposed to be issued pursuant to any merger, consolidation, bulk reinsurance, conversion, mutualization or corporate affiliation approved by the Commissioner pursuant to Chapter 49 of this title.
(5) Securities issued in exchange for outstanding securities of the issuer or partly in exchange for such outstanding securities and partly for cash in connection with a recapitalization of the issuer or the exercise of conversion or exchange rights under such outstanding securities.
(6) Fractional share interests in stock of the issuer offered and sold for the purpose of rounding out to whole shares in connection with any stock dividend or other distribution of shares to existing security holders of the issuer.
(7) Sales of securities of a corporation established under Chapter 7 or regulated under Chapter 9 of Title 5 which maintains an insurance department or division.
18 Del. C. 1953, § 4704; 56 Del. Laws, c. 380, § 1; 67 Del. Laws, c. 223, § 30; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.
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