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    15 USC Sec. 80a-44                                          01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
    CHAPTER 2D - INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND ADVISERS
    SUBCHAPTER I - INVESTMENT COMPANIES

HEAD

    Sec. 80a-44. Disclosure of information filed with Commission;
      copies

STATUTE

      (a) The information contained in any registration statement,
    application, report, or other document filed with the Commission
    pursuant to any provision of this subchapter or of any rule or
    regulation thereunder (as distinguished from any information or
    document transmitted to the Commission) shall be made available to
    the public, unless and except insofar as the Commission, by rules
    and regulations upon its own motion, or by order upon application,
    finds that public disclosure is neither necessary nor appropriate
    in the public interest or for the protection of investors. Except
    as provided in section 78x(c) of this title, it shall be unlawful
    for any member, officer, or employee of the Commission to use for
    personal benefit, or to disclose to any person other than an
    official or employee of the United States or of a State, for
    official use, or for any such official or employee to use for
    personal benefit, any information contained in any document so
    filed or transmitted, if such information is not available to the
    public.
      (b) Photostatic or other copies of information contained in
    documents filed with the Commission under this subchapter and made
    available to the public shall be furnished any person at such
    reasonable charge and under such reasonable limitations as the
    Commission shall prescribe.

SOURCE

    (Aug. 22, 1940, ch. 686, title I, Sec. 45, 54 Stat. 845; Pub. L.
    101-550, title II, Sec. 202(b)(1), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2715.)

AMENDMENTS

      1990 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-550 substituted "Except as
    provided in section 78x(c) of this title, it shall be unlawful" for
    "It shall be unlawful".

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

      For transfer of functions of Securities and Exchange Commission,
    with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg.
    Plan No. 10 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175,
    64 Stat. 1265, set out under section 78d of this title.