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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates,
the following terms have the following meanings.

 
1.__Administrator. "Administrator" means the Securities
Administrator under section 16601.

 
2.__Agent. "Agent" means an individual, other than a broker-
dealer, who represents a broker-dealer in effecting or attempting
to effect purchases or sales of securities or represents an
issuer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of
the issuer's securities.__A partner, officer or director of a
broker-dealer or issuer or an individual having a similar status
or performing similar functions is an agent only if the
individual otherwise comes within the meaning of the term
"agent."__"Agent" does not include an individual excluded by rule
adopted or order issued under this chapter.__Rules adopted
pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as
defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

 
3.__Bank. "Bank" means:

 
A.__A banking institution organized under the laws of the
United States;

 
B.__A member bank of the Federal Reserve System;

 
C.__A banking institution, whether incorporated or not,
doing business under the laws of a state or of the United
States, a substantial portion of the business of which
consists of receiving deposits or exercising fiduciary
powers similar to those permitted to be exercised by
national banks under the authority of the Comptroller of the
Currency pursuant to Section 1 of United States Public Law
87-722, 12 United States Code, Section 92a, and that is
supervised and examined by a state or federal agency having
supervision over banks and that is not operated for the
purpose of evading this chapter; and

 
D.__A receiver, conservator or other liquidating agent of
any institution or firm described in paragraph A, B or C.

 
4.__Broker-dealer. "Broker-dealer" means a person engaged in
the business of effecting transactions in securities for the
account of others or for the person's own account. "Broker-
dealer" does not include:

 
A.__An agent;

 
B.__An issuer;


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