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B.__Has a fixed maturity or a fixed interest or dividend if:

 
(1)__A default has not occurred during the current
fiscal year or within the 3 previous fiscal years or
during the existence of the issuer and any predecessor
if less than 3 fiscal years in the payment of
principal, interest or dividends on the security; and

 
(2)__The issuer is engaged in business, is not in the
organizational stage or in bankruptcy or receivership
and is not and has not been within the previous 12
months a blank check, blind pool or shell company that
has no specific business plan or purpose or has
indicated that its primary business plan is to engage
in a merger or combination of the business with, or an
acquisition of, an unidentified person;

 
6.__Unsolicited brokerage transactions.__A nonissuer
transaction by or through a broker-dealer licensed under or
exempt from licensing under this chapter effecting an unsolicited
order or offer to purchase;

 
7.__Nonissuer transactions by pledgees.__A nonissuer
transaction executed by a bona fide pledgee without the purpose
of evading this chapter;

 
8.__Nonissuer transactions with federal covered investment
advisers.__A nonissuer transaction by a federal covered
investment adviser with investments under management in excess of
$100,000,000 acting in the exercise of discretionary authority in
a signed record for the account of others;

 
9.__Specified exchange transactions.__A transaction in a
security, whether or not the security or transaction is otherwise
exempt, in exchange for one or more bona fide outstanding
securities, claims or property interests or partly in such
exchange and partly for cash, if the terms and conditions of the
issuance and exchange or the delivery and exchange and the
fairness of the terms and conditions have been approved by the
administrator after a hearing.__The administrator may impose
actual costs and a reasonable fee for conducting a hearing under
this subsection;

 
10.__Underwriter transactions.__A transaction between the
issuer or other person on whose behalf the offering is made and
an underwriter, or among underwriters;


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