RCW 21.20.010: Unlawful offers, sales, purchases.

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21.20.005 << 21.20.010 >> 21.20.020

PDFRCW 21.20.010

Unlawful offers, sales, purchases.

It is unlawful for any person, in connection with the offer, sale or purchase of any security, directly or indirectly:

(1) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud;

(2) To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; or

(3) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person.

[ 1959 c 282 § 1.]