CHAPTER 4. Unlawful Activities and Fraudulent Conduct [29535. - 29538.]

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP 4.

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Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 29535. Section 29535.

(a) No person shall engage in a trade or business or otherwise act as a commodity merchant unless the person (1) is registered or temporarily licensed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for each activity constituting that person as a commodity merchant and the registration or temporary license shall not have expired, been suspended, or revoked; or (2) is exempt from the registration by virtue of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. Sec. 1 et seq.) or of a CFTC rule. (b) No board of trade shall trade, or provide a place for the trading of, any commodity contract required to be traded on or subject to the rules of a contract market designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, unless the board of trade has been so designated for the commodity contract and that designation shall not have been vacated, suspended, or revoked.

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 29536. Section 29536.

It is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, in connection with the purchase or sale of, the offer to sell, the offer to purchase, the offer to enter into, or the entry into, a commodity, commodity contract, or commodity option to do any of the following: (a) To willfully employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud. (b) To willfully make any false report, enter any false record, make any untrue statement of a material fact, or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. (c) To willfully engage in any transaction, act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any persons. (d) To willfully misappropriate or convert the funds, security, or property of any other person.

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 29537. Section 29537.

(a) Sections 29520, 29535, and 29536 apply to persons who sell or offer to sell when either of the following occur: (1) An offer to sell is made in this state. (2) An offer to buy is made and accepted in this state. (b) Sections 29520, 29535, and 29536 apply to persons who buy or offer to buy when either of the following occur: (1) An offer to buy is made in this state. (2) An offer to sell is made and accepted in this state. (c) For the purpose of this section, an offer to sell or to buy is made in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state, when the offer: (1) Originates from this state. (2) Is directed by the offeror to this state and received at the place to which it is directed (or at any post office in this state in the case of a mailed offer). (d) For the purpose of this section, an offer to buy or to sell is accepted in this state when acceptance: (1) Is communicated to the offeror in this state. (2) Has not previously been communicated to the offeror, orally or in writing, outside this state. Acceptance is communicated to the offeror in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state, when the offeree directs it to the offeror in this state, reasonably believing the offeror to be in this state and it is received at the place to which it is directed (or at any post office in this state in the case of a mailed acceptance). (e) An offer to sell or to buy is not made in this state when either of the following occur: (1) The publisher circulates or there is circulated on his or her behalf in this state any bona fide newspaper or other publication of general, regular, and paid circulation which is not published in this state, or which is published in this state but has had more than two-thirds of its circulation outside this state during the past 12 months. (2) A radio or television program originating outside this state is received in this state.

Cal. Corporations Code - CORP § 29538. Section 29538.

(a) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly alter, destroy, mutilate, conceal, cover up, falsify, or make a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the administration or enforcement of this division. (b) It is unlawful for any person to knowingly make an untrue statement to the commissioner during the course of licensing, investigation, or examination, with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the administration or enforcement of any provision of this division.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026