30-10-110. Scope. (1) Sections 30-10-201(1), 30-10-202, 30-10-301(1), 30-10-303, and 30-10-307 apply to persons who sell or offer to sell when an offer to sell is made in this state or an offer to buy is made and accepted in this state.
     (2) Sections 30-10-201(1), 30-10-301(1), and 30-10-303 apply to persons who buy or offer to buy when an offer to buy is made in this state or an offer to sell is made and accepted in this state.
     (3) For the purpose of this section, an offer to sell or buy is made in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state, when the offer either originates from this state or is directed by the offeror to this state and received at the place to which it is directed or at any post office in this state in the case of a mailed offer.
     (4) For the purpose of this section, an offer to buy or sell is accepted in this state when acceptance is communicated to the offeror in this state and acceptance has not previously been communicated to the offeror, orally or in writing, outside this state. Acceptance is communicated to the offeror in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state, when the offeree directs it to the offeror in this state, reasonably believing the offeror to be in this state, and it is received at the place to which it is directed or at any post office in this state in the case of a mailed acceptance.
     (5) An offer to sell or to buy is not made in this state when:
     (a) the publisher circulates or there is circulated on the publisher's behalf in this state any bona fide newspaper or other publication of general, regular, and paid circulation that is:
     (i) not published in this state; or
     (ii) published in this state but has had more than two-thirds of its circulation outside this state during the past 12 months; or
     (b) a radio or television program originating outside this state is received in this state.
     (6) Sections 30-10-201(3), 30-10-301(2) and (3), and 30-10-303, as far as investment advisers and investment adviser representatives are concerned, apply when any act instrumental in effecting prohibited conduct is done in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state.
     (7) Any security given or delivered with or as a bonus on account of any purchase of securities or any other thing is considered to constitute part of the subject of the purchase and to have been offered and sold for value. A purported gift of assessable stock is considered to involve an offer and sale. Each sale or offer of a warrant or right to purchase or subscribe to another security of the same or another issuer, as well as each 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 or another issuer, is considered to include an offer of the other security.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 285, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 269, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 136, Ch. 42, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 533, L. 1997.