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1. This section incorporates the abandonment provisions
within sections 10313(7), 10406(5) and 10502(8) of the Revised
Maine Securities Act, which had no counterparts in the model
Uniform Securities Act.

 
SUBCHAPTER 7

 
TRANSITION

 
§16701.__Effective date.__This chapter takes effect January 1,
2006.

 
§16702.__Application

 
The application of this chapter to existing proceedings and
existing rights and duties is described in this section.

 
1.__Applicability of predecessor act to pending proceedings
and existing rights.__The predecessor act exclusively governs all
actions or proceedings that are pending on the effective date of
this chapter or may be instituted on the basis of conduct
occurring before the effective date of this chapter, but a civil
action may not be maintained to enforce any liability under the
predecessor act unless instituted within any period of limitation
that applied when the cause of action accrued or within 5 years
after the effective date of this chapter, whichever is earlier.

 
2.__Continued effectiveness under predecessor act.__All
effective licenses and registrations under any predecessor act,
all administrative orders relating to the registrations, rules,
statements of policy, interpretative opinions, declaratory
rulings, no action determinations and conditions imposed on the
licenses and registrations under any predecessor act remain in
effect while they would have remained in effect if this chapter
had not been enacted. They are considered to have been filed,
issued or imposed under this chapter, but are exclusively
governed by that predecessor act.

 
3.__Applicability of predecessor act to offers or sales. The
predecessor act exclusively applies to an offer or sale made
within one year after the effective date of this chapter pursuant
to an offering made in good faith before the effective date of
this chapter on the basis of an exemption available under the
predecessor act.

 
Official Comments

 
Prior Provisions: 1956 Act Section 418; RUSA Section 807.


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