Cal. INS § 1104.5

This is the official text of Cal. INS § 1104.5, part of California’s Insurance Code — regulates insurance companies and the insurance policies sold in California.

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Official statutory text

The provisions of Section 1104.3 shall not apply to any purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, and the provisions of Section 1104.4 shall not apply to any sale of stock of a domestic insurer (not then or theretofore held in an investment account), by a dealer in the ordinary course of his business and incidental to the establishment or maintenance by him of a primary or secondary market (other than on an exchange as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) for such stock. The commissioner may, by such rules and regulations as he deems necessary or appropriate in the public interest, define and prescribe terms and conditions with respect to stock held in an investment account and transactions made in the ordinary course of business and incident to the establishment or maintenance of a primary or secondary market.

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