Arkansas Securities Department

A. Heath Abshure, Commissioner

Heritage West Building, Suite 300

201 East Markham Street

Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1692

 

Main Telephone: (501) 324-9260   Facsimile:  (501) 324-9268  Hotline: (800) 981-4429

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2000 Legal Opinions and No Action Letters

00-014
12/11/00
Blind Hog Hunting Club
Securities

Request for no action in organization of hunting club.
00-013
11/29/00
Prudential Insurance Company of America
Securities

Demutualization of mutual life insurance company to stock life insurance company.
00-012
11/22/00
American Payment Systems, Inc.
Sale of Checks Act

Application of Sale of Checks Act to payment of bills to agent of bill paying company when funds transmitted electronically.
00-011
10/20/00
Lathrop & Gage
Mortgage Loan Company

Loan Broker's registration certificate opinion letter.
00-010
10/16/00
Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company
Securities

Request for No Action Letter for conversion of Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. Co. to a stock life insurance company
00-009
9/14/00
Confinity, Inc. and Dynamic Transactions, Inc.
Sale of Checks Act

Arkansas "Sale of Checks Act", Ark. Code Ann. §§ 23-41-101, et seq., with regard to PayPal service offered by Confinity, Inc. and PayPlace service offered by Dynamic Transactions, Inc.
00-008
9/14/00
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Foundation
Securities

Request no action that its activities under the Philanthropy Protection Act does not involve the issuance of securities under the Arkansas Securities Act.
00-007
08/11/00
F. O. Advertising, Inc.
Securities

Legal opinion that sole shareholder can rely on exemption for additional sales by existing issuer under Rule 504.01(a)(12)(i).
00-006
08/11/00
Todd L. Griffin, Attorney at Law
Mortgage Loan Company and Loan Broker Act

Interpretation of A. C. A. § 23-39-306(a)(2), exemption from registration for attorneys.
00-005
08/08/00
ClearSky
Securities

Request no action position with respect to filing of sales reports for covered securities.
00-004
5/11/00
BMA Financial Services, Inc.
John Long
Securities

"Single case exception" to the agent registration requirements of the Arkansas Securities Act.
00-003
3/7/00
Mortgage Loan Company and Loan Broker Act
Registration requirements for a web-based business.
00-002
2/14/00
Southern States Cooperative, Inc.
Securities

Request clarification that employees performing clerical functions are not required to register as agents. Individuals accepting offers and answering non-clerical inquiries will register as agents of the issuer.
00-001
1/3/00
Energy Co-Opportunity, Inc.
Securities

Request for interpretive opinion that ECO's Membership Common Stock does not constitute a security pursuant to A.C.A. § 23-42-102(15).