2007 Minnesota Statutes

80A.06 POSTLICENSING PROVISIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Record keeping. Every licensed broker-dealer and investment adviser shall
make and keep all accounts, correspondence, memoranda, papers, books and other records which
the commissioner by rule prescribes by rule or order, except as provided by section 15 of the
Securities Act of 1934 in the case of a broker-dealer and section 222 of the Investment Advisers
Act of 1940 in the case of an investment adviser. All records required shall be preserved for three
years unless the commissioner by rule prescribes otherwise for particular types of records. All
required records shall be kept within the state or shall, at the request of the commissioner, be made
available at any time for examination by the commissioner either in the principal office of the
licensee or by production of exact copies thereof in this state.
    Subd. 2. Reports. Every licensed broker-dealer and investment adviser shall file such reports
as the commissioner by rule or order prescribes except as provided in section 15 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 in the case of a broker-dealer and section 222 of the Investment Advisers
Act of 1940 in the case of an investment adviser.
    Subd. 3. Correcting amendments. If the information contained in any document filed with
the commissioner is or becomes inaccurate or incomplete in any material respect, the licensee or
federal covered adviser shall within 30 days file a correcting amendment unless notification of the
correction has been given under section 80A.04, subdivision 2.
    Subd. 4. Examinations. The commissioner shall make periodic examinations, within or
without this state, of the business and records of each licensed broker-dealer and investment
adviser, at such times and in such scope as the commissioner determines. The examinations may be
made without prior notice to the broker-dealer or investment adviser. For the purpose of avoiding
unnecessary duplication of examinations, the commissioner, insofar as the commissioner deems
it practicable in administering this subdivision, may cooperate with securities administrators of
other states, the securities and exchange commission, and any national securities exchange or
national securities association registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
    Subd. 5. Remuneration and charges. (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), no
investment adviser who shall recommend the purchase or sale of a security to a client, and no
licensed broker-dealer acting as a broker-dealer for a customer in the purchase or sale of a security
shall take or accept any remuneration or other thing of value from any person other than the client
or customer in connection with the purchase or sale unless, prior to or contemporaneously with the
recommendation in the case of an investment adviser and prior to or contemporaneously with the
confirmation of the transaction in the case of a licensed broker-dealer so acting, written disclosure
to the client or customer is made of the acceptance or intended acceptance of the remuneration
or other thing of value and of the amount of it. All charges made by an investment adviser for
services and all charges by a licensed broker-dealer for services rendered as a broker-dealer or for
advice with respect to securities shall be reasonable, and except in compliance with rules adopted
by the commissioner, no charges shall be based upon or measured by profits accrued or to accrue
from transactions recommended or carried out by an investment adviser, or licensed broker-dealer.
This subdivision shall not be construed to prohibit charges by an investment adviser based upon
the total value of the assets under management averaged over a definite period, or as of definite
dates, or taken as of a definite date, nor charges based upon the performance of the managed assets
as compared to an established index in compliance with rules adopted by the commissioner.
(b) Disclosure of payment received by a licensed investment advisor or licensed
broker-dealer for directing order flow need not comply with paragraph (a) if the disclosure is
made in compliance with rules governing disclosure of payments for directing order flow adopted
by the securities and exchange commission.
History: 1973 c 451 s 6; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 336 s 9; 1995 c 148 s 1; 1996 c 439 art 2 s 3;
1997 c 222 s 16-18
NOTE: This section is repealed by Laws 2006, chapter 196, article 1, section 51, effective
August 1, 2007. Laws 2006, chapter 196, article 1, section 52.