| | | 1. This section incorporates the abandonment provisions | | within sections 10313(7), 10406(5) and 10502(8) of the Revised | | Maine Securities Act, which had no counterparts in the model | | Uniform Securities Act. |
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| | | §16701.__Effective date.__This chapter takes effect January 1, | | 2006. |
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| | | The application of this chapter to existing proceedings and | | existing rights and duties is described in this section. |
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| | | 1.__Applicability of predecessor act to pending proceedings | | and existing rights.__The predecessor act exclusively governs all | | actions or proceedings that are pending on the effective date of | | this chapter or may be instituted on the basis of conduct | | occurring before the effective date of this chapter, but a civil | | action may not be maintained to enforce any liability under the | | predecessor act unless instituted within any period of limitation | | that applied when the cause of action accrued or within 5 years | | after the effective date of this chapter, whichever is earlier. |
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| | | 2.__Continued effectiveness under predecessor act.__All | | effective licenses and registrations under any predecessor act, | | all administrative orders relating to the registrations, rules, | | statements of policy, interpretative opinions, declaratory | | rulings, no action determinations and conditions imposed on the | | licenses and registrations under any predecessor act remain in | | effect while they would have remained in effect if this chapter | | had not been enacted. They are considered to have been filed, | | issued or imposed under this chapter, but are exclusively | | governed by that predecessor act. |
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| | | 3.__Applicability of predecessor act to offers or sales. The | | predecessor act exclusively applies to an offer or sale made | | within one year after the effective date of this chapter pursuant | | to an offering made in good faith before the effective date of | | this chapter on the basis of an exemption available under the | | predecessor act. |
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| | | Prior Provisions: 1956 Act Section 418; RUSA Section 807. |
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