TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 2A - SECURITIES AND TRUST INDENTURES
SUBCHAPTER I - DOMESTIC SECURITIES
HEAD
Sec. 77aa. Schedule of information required in registration
statement
SCHEDULE A
(1) The name under which the issuer is doing or intends to do
business;
(2) the name of the State or other sovereign power under which
the issuer is organized;
(3) the location of the issuer's principal business office, and
if the issuer is a foreign or territorial person, the name and
address of its agent in the United States authorized to receive
notice;
(4) the names and addresses of the directors or persons
performing similar functions, and the chief executive, financial
and accounting officers, chosen or to be chosen if the issuer be a
corporation, association, trust, or other entity; of all partners,
if the issuer be a partnership; and of the issuer, if the issuer be
an individual; and of the promoters in the case of a business to be
formed, or formed within two years prior to the filing of the
registration statement;
(5) the names and addresses of the underwriters;
(6) the names and addresses of all persons, if any, owning of
record or beneficially, if known, more than 10 per centum of any
class of stock of the issuer, or more than 10 per centum in the
aggregate of the outstanding stock of the issuer as of a date
within twenty days prior to the filing of the registration
statement;
(7) the amount of securities of the issuer held by any person
specified in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of this schedule, as of a
date within twenty days prior to the filing of the registration
statement, and, if possible, as of one year prior thereto, and the
amount of the securities, for which the registration statement is
filed, to which such persons have indicated their intention to
subscribe;
(8) the general character of the business actually transacted or
to be transacted by the issuer;
(9) a statement of the capitalization of the issuer, including
the authorized and outstanding amounts of its capital stock and the
proportion thereof paid up, the number and classes of shares in
which such capital stock is divided, par value thereof, or if it
has no par value, the stated or assigned value thereof, a
description of the respective voting rights, preferences,
conversion and exchange rights, rights to dividends, profits, or
capital of each class, with respect to each other class, including
the retirement and liquidation rights or values thereof;
(10) a statement of the securities, if any, covered by options
outstanding or to be created in connection with the security to be
offered, together with the names and addresses of all persons, if
any, to be allotted more than 10 per centum in the aggregate of
such options;
(11) the amount of capital stock of each class issued or included
in the shares of stock to be offered;
(12) the amount of the funded debt outstanding and to be created
by the security to be offered, with a brief description of the
date, maturity, and character of such debt, rate of interest,
character of amortization provisions, and the security, if any,
therefor. If substitution of any security is permissible, a
summarized statement of the conditions under which such
substitution is permitted. If substitution is permissible without
notice, a specific statement to that effect;
(13) the specific purposes in detail and the approximate amounts
to be devoted to such purposes, so far as determinable, for which
the security to be offered is to supply funds, and if the funds are
to be raised in part from other sources, the amounts thereof and
the sources thereof, shall be stated;
(14) the remuneration, paid or estimated to be paid, by the
issuer or its predecessor, directly or indirectly, during the past
year and ensuing year to (a) the directors or persons performing
similar functions, and (b) its officers and other persons, naming
them wherever such remuneration exceeded $25,000 during any such
year;
(15) the estimated net proceeds to be derived from the security
to be offered;
(16) the price at which it is proposed that the security shall be
offered to the public or the method by which such price is computed
and any variation therefrom at which any portion of such security
is proposed to be offered to any persons or classes of persons,
other than the underwriters, naming them or specifying the class. A
variation in price may be proposed prior to the date of the public
offering of the security, but the Commission shall immediately be
notified of such variation;
(17) all commissions or discounts paid or to be paid, directly or
indirectly, by the issuer to the underwriters in respect of the
sale of the security to be offered. Commissions shall include all
cash, securities, contracts, or anything else of value, paid, to be
set aside, disposed of, or understandings with or for the benefit
of any other persons in which any underwriter is interested, made,
in connection with the sale of such security. A commission paid or
to be paid in connection with the sale of such security by a person
in which the issuer has an interest or which is controlled or
directed by, or under common control with, the issuer shall be
deemed to have been paid by the issuer. Where any such commission
is paid the amount of such commission paid to each underwriter
shall be stated;
(18) the amount or estimated amounts, itemized in reasonable
detail, of expenses, other than commissions specified in paragraph
(17) of this schedule, incurred or borne by or for the account of
the issuer in connection with the sale of the security to be
offered or properly chargeable thereto, including legal,
engineering, certification, authentication, and other charges;
(19) the net proceeds derived from any security sold by the
issuer during the two years preceding the filing of the
registration statement, the price at which such security was
offered to the public, and the names of the principal underwriters
of such security;
(20) any amount paid within two years preceding the filing of the
registration statement or intended to be paid to any promoter and
the consideration for any such payment;
(21) the names and addresses of the vendors and the purchase
price of any property, or good will, acquired or to be acquired,
not in the ordinary course of business, which is to be defrayed in
whole or in part from the proceeds of the security to be offered,
the amount of any commission payable to any person in connection
with such acquisition, and the name or names of such person or
persons, together with any expense incurred or to be incurred in
connection with such acquisition, including the cost of borrowing
money to finance such acquisition;
(22) full particulars of the nature and extent of the interest,
if any, of every director, principal executive officer, and of
every stockholder holding more than 10 per centum of any class of
stock or more than 10 per centum in the aggregate of the stock of
the issuer, in any property acquired, not in the ordinary course of
business of the issuer, within two years preceding the filing of
the registration statement or proposed to be acquired at such date;
(23) the names and addresses of counsel who have passed on the
legality of the issue;
(24) dates of and parties to, and the general effect concisely
stated of every material contract made, not in the ordinary course
of business, which contract is to be executed in whole or in part
at or after the filing of the registration statement or which
contract has been made not more than two years before such filing.
Any management contract or contract providing for special bonuses
or profit-sharing arrangements, and every material patent or
contract for a material patent right, and every contract by or with
a public utility company or an affiliate thereof, providing for the
giving or receiving of technical or financial advice or service (if
such contract may involve a charge to any party thereto at a rate
in excess of $2,500 per year in cash or securities or anything else
of value), shall be deemed a material contract;
(25) a balance sheet as of a date not more than ninety days prior
to the date of the filing of the registration statement showing all
of the assets of the issuer, the nature and cost thereof, whenever
determinable, in such detail and in such form as the Commission
shall prescribe (with intangible items segregated), including any
loan in excess of $20,000 to any officer, director, stockholder or
person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by the
issuer, or person under direct or indirect common control with the
issuer. All the liabilities of the issuer in such detail and such
form as the Commission shall prescribe, including surplus of the
issuer showing how and from what sources such surplus was created,
all as of a date not more than ninety days prior to the filing of
the registration statement. If such statement be not certified by
an independent public or certified accountant, in addition to the
balance sheet required to be submitted under this schedule, a
similar detailed balance sheet of the assets and liabilities of the
issuer, certified by an independent public or certified accountant,
of a date not more than one year prior to the filing of the
registration statement, shall be submitted;
(26) a profit and loss statement of the issuer showing earnings
and income, the nature and source thereof, and the expenses and
fixed charges in such detail and such form as the Commission shall
prescribe for the latest fiscal year for which such statement is
available and for the two preceding fiscal years, year by year, or,
if such issuer has been in actual business for less than three
years, then for such time as the issuer has been in actual
business, year by year. If the date of the filing of the
registration statement is more than six months after the close of
the last fiscal year, a statement from such closing date to the
latest practicable date. Such statement shall show what the
practice of the issuer has been during the three years or lesser
period as to the character of the charges, dividends or other
distributions made against its various surplus accounts, and as to
depreciation, depletion, and maintenance charges, in such detail
and form as the Commission shall prescribe, and if stock dividends
or avails from the sale of rights have been credited to income,
they shall be shown separately with a statement of the basis upon
which the credit is computed. Such statement shall also
differentiate between any recurring and nonrecurring income and
between any investment and operating income. Such statement shall
be certified by an independent public or certified accountant;
(27) if the proceeds, or any part of the proceeds, of the
security to be issued is to be applied directly or indirectly to
the purchase of any business, a profit and loss statement of such
business certified by an independent public or certified
accountant, meeting the requirements of paragraph (26) of this
schedule, for the three preceding fiscal years, together with a
balance sheet, similarly certified, of such business, meeting the
requirements of paragraph (25) of this schedule of a date not more
than ninety days prior to the filing of the registration statement
or at the date such business was acquired by the issuer if the
business was acquired by the issuer more than ninety days prior to
the filing of the registration statement;
(28) a copy of any agreement or agreements (or, if identical
agreements are used, the forms thereof) made with any underwriter,
including all contracts and agreements referred to in paragraph
(17) of this schedule;
(29) a copy of the opinion or opinions of counsel in respect to
the legality of the issue, with a translation of such opinion, when
necessary, into the English language;
(30) a copy of all material contracts referred to in paragraph
(24) of this schedule, but no disclosure shall be required of any
portion of any such contract if the Commission determines that
disclosure of such portion would impair the value of the contract
and would not be necessary for the protection of the investors;
(31) unless previously filed and registered under the provisions
of this subchapter, and brought up to date, (a) a copy of its
articles of incorporation, with all amendments thereof and of its
existing bylaws or instruments corresponding thereto, whatever the
name, if the issuer be a corporation; (b) copy of all instruments
by which the trust is created or declared, if the issuer is a
trust; (c) a copy of its articles of partnership or association and
all other papers pertaining to its organization, if the issuer is a
partnership, unincorporated association, joint-stock company, or
any other form of organization; and
(32) a copy of the underlying agreements or indentures affecting
any stock, bonds, or debentures offered or to be offered.
In case of certificates of deposit, voting trust certificates,
collateral trust certificates, certificates of interest or shares
in unincorporated investment trusts, equipment trust certificates,
interim or other receipts for certificates, and like securities,
the Commission shall establish rules and regulations requiring the
submission of information of a like character applicable to such
cases, together with such other information as it may deem
appropriate and necessary regarding the character, financial or
otherwise, of the actual issuer of the securities and/or the person
performing the acts and assuming the duties of depositor or
manager.
SCHEDULE B
(1) Name of borrowing government or subdivision thereof;
(2) specific purposes in detail and the approximate amounts to be
devoted to such purposes, so far as determinable, for which the
security to be offered is to supply funds, and if the funds are to
be raised in part from other sources, the amounts thereof and the
sources thereof, shall be stated;
(3) the amount of the funded debt and the estimated amount of the
floating debt outstanding and to be created by the security to be
offered, excluding intergovernmental debt, and a brief description
of the date, maturity, character of such debt, rate of interest,
character of amortization provisions, and the security, if any,
therefor. If substitution of any security is permissible, a
statement of the conditions under which such substitution is
permitted. If substitution is permissible without notice, a
specific statement to that effect;
(4) whether or not the issuer or its predecessor has, within a
period of twenty years prior to the filing of the registration
statement, defaulted on the principal or interest of any external
security, excluding intergovernmental debt, and, if so, the date,
amount, and circumstances of such default, and the terms of the
succeeding arrangement, if any;
(5) the receipts, classified by source, and the expenditures,
classified by purpose, in such detail and form as the Commission
shall prescribe for the latest fiscal year for which such
information is available and the two preceding fiscal years, year
by year;
(6) the names and addresses of the underwriters;
(7) the name and address of its authorized agent, if any, in the
United States;
(8) the estimated net proceeds to be derived from the sale in the
United States of the security to be offered;
(9) the price at which it is proposed that the security shall be
offered in the United States to the public or the method by which
such price is computed. A variation in price may be proposed prior
to the date of the public offering of the security, but the
Commission shall immediately be notified of such variation;
(10) all commissions paid or to be paid, directly or indirectly,
by the issuer to the underwriters in respect of the sale of the
security to be offered. Commissions shall include all cash,
securities, contracts, or anything else of value, paid, to be set
aside, disposed of, or understandings with or for the benefit of
any other persons in which the underwriter is interested, made, in
connection with the sale of such security. Where any such
commission is paid, the amount of such commission paid to each
underwriter shall be stated;
(11) the amount or estimated amounts, itemized in reasonable
detail, of expenses, other than the commissions specified in
paragraph (10) of this schedule, incurred or borne by or for the
account of the issuer in connection with the sale of the security
to be offered or properly chargeable thereto, including legal,
engineering, certification, and other charges;
(12) the names and addresses of counsel who have passed upon the
legality of the issue;
(13) a copy of any agreement or agreements made with any
underwriter governing the sale of the security within the United
States; and
(14) an agreement of the issuer to furnish a copy of the opinion
or opinions of counsel in respect to the legality of the issue,
with a translation, where necessary, into the English language.
Such opinion shall set out in full all laws, decrees, ordinances,
or other acts of Government under which the issue of such security
has been authorized.
SOURCE
(May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title I, schedules A, B, 48 Stat. 88, 91;
Pub. L. 105-353, title III, Sec. 301(a)(6), Nov. 3, 1998, 112 Stat.
3235.)
AMENDMENTS
1998 - Schedule A, par. (28). Pub. L. 105-353 substituted
"identical" for "identic".
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of Securities and Exchange Commission,
with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg.
Plan No. 10 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175,
64 Stat. 1265, set out under section 78d of this title.
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