[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR230.131]

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              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER II--SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 
 PART 229--STANDARD INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILING FORMS UNDER SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 AND ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION ACT OF 1975--REGULATION S-K--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart 229.1000--Mergers and Acquisitions (Regulation M-A)
 
Sec. 230.131  Definition of security issued under governmental obligations.

    (a) Any part of an obligation evidenced by any bond, note, 
debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by any governmental 
unit specified in section 3(a)(2) of the Act which is payable from 
payments to be made in respect of property or money which is or will be 
used, under a lease, sale, or loan arrangement, by or for industrial or 
commercial enterprise, shall be deemed to be a separate security within 
the meaning of section 2(l) of the Act, issued by the lessee or obligor 
under the lease, sale or loan arrangement.
    (b) An obligation shall not be deemed a separate security as defined 
in paragraph (a) of this section if, (1) the obligation is payable from 
the general revenues of a governmental unit, specified in section 
3(a)(2) of the Act, having other resources which may be used for payment 
of the obligation, or (2) the obligation relates to a public project or 
facility owned and operated by or on behalf of and under the control of 
a governmental unit specified in such section, or (3) the obligation 
relates to a facility which is leased to and under

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the control of an industrial or commercial enterprise but is a part of a 
public project which, as a whole, is owned by and under the general 
control of a governmental unit specified in such section, or an 
instrumentality thereof.
    (c) This rule shall apply to transactions of the character described 
in paragraph (a) of this section only with respect to bonds, notes, 
debentures or other evidences of indebtedness sold after December 31, 
1968.

(15 U.S.C. 77w)

[33 FR 12648, Sept. 6, 1968, as amended at 35 FR 6000, Apr. 11, 1970]