17 C.F.R. § 250.44 Sales of securities and assets.
Title 17 - Commodity and Securities Exchanges
(a) Sales of utility securities or assets. No registered holding company shall, directly or indirectly, sell to any person any security which it owns of any public utility company, or any utility assets, except pursuant to a declaration notifying the Commission of the proposed transaction, which has become effective in accordance with the procedure specified in §250.23, and pursuant to the order of the Commission with respect to such declaration under the applicable provisions of the Act. (b) Exception. The foregoing requirement in paragraph (a) shall not apply to any sale of securities or of utility assets in an aggregate amount of up to $5,000,000 during any calendar year if the acquisition of such securities or assets does not require prior Commission approval. (c) Sales pursuant to order or plan under section 11. No registered holding company or subsidiary thereof shall, directly or indirectly, sell or otherwise dispose of any security, asset or other interest in any business which it is required to dispose of by reason of any order of this Commission under section 11(b) of the Act, or pursuant to the provisions of any plan pending or approved under section 11(e) of the Act, unless it shall have given at least 10 days' notice to the Commission of its intention to make such sale or other disposition and; (1) No notice shall have been given to said company by the Commission within said 10 day period that a declaration should be filed with respect to the proposed transaction, or notice shall have been given by the Commission within said 10 day period that no declaration is required; or (2) A declaration filed by the company with respect to such transaction shall have been permitted to become effective by order of the Commission: Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any transaction as to which a declaration is required under §250.43(a) (Rule U–43(a)) or paragraph (a) of this section. [Rule U, 6 FR 2015, Apr. 19, 1941, as amended at 10 FR 15413, Dec. 29, 1945; 59 FR 21928, Apr. 28, 1994]
Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges
PART 250—GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS, PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935
Regulation and Exemption of Various Financial Transactions
§ 250.44 Sales of securities and assets.
