Section 359-F. Exemptions from certain provisions of section three hundred fifty-nine-e

1. The provisions of subdivision eight  of  section  three
  hundred and fifty-nine-e shall not apply to any transactions relating to
  the  sale  or  offering  for  sale  of  any  of  the following described
  securities by a dealer therein:
    (a) Any security issued, or guaranteed by the  United  States  or  any
  territory or insular possession thereof, or by the District of Columbia,
  or by any state or political subdivision or agency thereof.
    (b)  Any security issued or guaranteed by the Dominion of Canada or by
  any foreign government with which the United States is at  the  time  of
  the  sale or offer for sale thereof maintaining diplomatic relations, or
  by any province or political subdivision thereof.
    (c) Any security issued by a national bank or by any federal land bank
  or joint-stock land bank or national farm  loan  association  under  the
  provisions  of  the  federal farm loan act of July seventeenth, nineteen
  hundred and sixteen, or by any  corporation  created  or  acting  as  an
  instrumentality  of  the  government  of  the  United States pursuant to
  authority granted by the congress of the United States.
    (d) Any securities issued or guaranteed by a public service or utility
  corporation, including a railroad corporation, provided such corporation
  is subject to regulation or supervision  either  as  to  its  rates  and
  charges or as to the issue of its own securities by a public commission,
  board  or  officer  of  the  government  of the United States, or of any
  territory,  or  insular  possession  thereof,  or  of   any   state   or
  municipality  or other political subdivision thereof, or of the Dominion
  of  Canada,  or  any  province  thereof;  also   equipment   and   trust
  certificates  or  equipment  notes  or bonds based on chattel mortgages,
  leases, or agreements for conditional sale of  cars,  motive  power,  or
  other  rolling  stock  mortgaged, leased or sold to or furnished for the
  use  of  or  upon  such  a  railroad  or  other  public-service  utility
  corporation,  or  equipment  trust  certificates,  or equipment notes or
  bonds where the ownership or title  of  such  equipment  is  pledged  or
  retained  in  accordance  with  the provisions of the laws of the United
  States, or of any state, territory or insular possession thereof, or  of
  the  District  of  Columbia,  or  of  the  Dominion of Canada, or of any
  province  thereof,  to  secure  the  payment  of  such  equipment  trust
  certificates, bonds or notes.
    (e)  Any  security  issued  by a corporation organized exclusively for
  educational, benevolent, fraternal, or reformatory purposes, and not for
  pecuniary profit.
    (f) Any capital stock issued by a state bank, trust company or  saving
  institution   incorporated   under  the  laws  of  and  subject  to  the
  examination, supervision and control of  any  state  or  of  the  United
  States or of any insular possession thereof.
    (g)  Any  security  which  under  the  laws  of  this state is a legal
  investment for savings banks or trust funds, and  any  securities  which
  are underwritten or sold by any corporation under the supervision of the
  superintendent of banks of the state of New York.
    (h) Any security, other than common stock, outstanding for a period of
  not less than five years, upon which no default exists in the payment of
  principal  or interest and upon which no such default has occurred for a
  continuous immediately preceding period of five years, or in the case of
  preferred stock upon which dividends specified in  the  certificates  of
  such  stock have been paid for a continuous immediately preceding period
  of five years.
    (i) Negotiable promissory notes, drafts, and commercial paper provided
  that such issue of notes, drafts and commercial paper mature in not more

  than twelve months from date of issue and shall be issued  within  three
  months after the date of sale.
    (j)  Any  bond  and  mortgage sold or offered for sale in an undivided
  whole.
    (k)  Securities  which  on  January  first,   nineteen   hundred   and
  twenty-five,  have  been  fully listed upon any exchange, located in the
  state of New York, which on said date was organized  and  in  operation,
  any  securities  senior  thereto  and  additional  amounts  of  all such
  securities which thereafter become so listed so long as the  same  shall
  remain  so listed.   Securities which shall become fully listed upon any
  such exchange subsequent to said January  first,  nineteen  hundred  and
  twenty-five,  shall  not be exempted as herein provided unless and until
  such exchange shall cause to be duly published pursuant  hereto  in  the
  state  paper as defined herein, a notice which shall contain the name of
  the corporation, association, common law trust or  similar  organization
  issuing  the  securities  so listed, the business or post office address
  thereof, the state or country where incorporated or organized, the  date
  of  such  listing  and  a brief description of the securities so listed.
  After such publication of said notice as aforesaid, securities so listed
  subsequent to January  first,  nineteen  hundred  and  twenty-five,  any
  securities  senior thereto and additional amounts of all such securities
  which thereafter become so listed, shall be exempted hereunder  so  long
  as the same shall remain so listed.
    (l)  Securities  sold or offered for sale at any judicial, executor's,
  administrator's, guardian's, or conservator's sale, or  any  sale  by  a
  receiver  or trustee in insolvency or bankruptcy, or at a public sale by
  auction held at an advertised time and place.
    (m) Sales by or for the account of a pledgee or mortgagee  selling  or
  offering  for  sale  or delivery, in the ordinary course of business, to
  liquidate a bona fide debt, a security pledged in good faith as security
  for such debt.
    (n) Negotiable documents of title, foreign currency orders  and  calls
  or options therefor.
    2.  The  attorney  general  may  upon  application,  in writing, grant
  exemptions from the provisions of section  three  hundred  fifty-nine-e,
  subdivisions  two, three, four, five and six to any person, partnership,
  corporation, company, trust or association which is a dealer as  defined
  in  section three hundred and fifty-nine-e, solely by reason of the fact
  that it is offering to sell  or  selling  or  offering  to  purchase  or
  purchasing  to  or from the public, within or from this state any one or
  more of the securities which are specified in any one  or  more  of  the
  following  paragraphs  of  this subdivision two of section three hundred
  fifty-nine-f:
    (a) Securities of a corporation which has  been  in  existence  for  a
  period  of  not less than ten years or which is a consolidation, merger,
  or successor of one or more corporations which has been in existence for
  a period of not less than ten years, and which have not defaulted in the
  payment of principal or  interest  on  any  of  its  obligations  for  a
  continuous immediately preceding period of ten years, and in the case of
  preferred  stock,  upon which dividends specified in the certificates of
  such stock have been paid for a continuous immediately preceding  period
  of six years, and in the case of common stock, upon which dividends have
  been  paid annually for a continuous immediately preceding period of six
  years at the rate of not less than three per cent of the book  value  of
  such common stock as shown by its balance sheet at the date of the close
  of the fiscal year in which such dividends were paid, as certified by an
  independent certified public accountant.

    (b)  Securities  which  are  fully  listed  on any securities exchange
  located in this state so long as the same shall remain  so  listed,  and
  any  securities  senior  thereto  and  additional  amounts  of  any such
  securities which are so listed or which it is planned, at  the  time  of
  the offering thereof, to list.
    (c)  All  securities  which  are  mentioned  in  section three hundred
  fifty-nine-f, subdivision one, with the exception of such securities  as
  are specified in subdivisions h and k thereof.
    (d)  Securities which are to be sold in a limited offering to not more
  than forty persons; but the attorney-general may grant an exemption  for
  offerings  made  to  more  than  forty  persons  when  he  deems such an
  exemption within the purposes of this subdivision.
    (e) Securities issued in connection with an employees' stock purchase,
  savings, pension, profit-sharing, or similar benefit plan.