North Dakota Century Code Title 14. Domestic Relations and Persons § 14-10.1-01. Definitions

1. “Bank” means any association, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of banking, including a national banking association, savings bank, industrial bank, or trust company.

2. “Broker” means a person, including a bank, lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others and includes a broker lawfully engaged in buying and selling securities for the broker's own account.

3. “Issuer” means a person who places or authorizes the placing of the person's name on a security, other than as a transfer agent, to evidence that it represents a share, participation, or other interest in the person's property or in an enterprise or to evidence the person's duty to perform an obligation evidenced by the security, or who becomes responsible for or in place of any such person.

4. “Person” includes a corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.

5. “Security” includes any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payment out of production under such a title or lease, collateral trust certificate, transferable share, voting trust certificate or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a security, or any certificate or interest or participation in, any temporary or interim certificate, receipt, or certificate of deposit for, or any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.

6. “Third party” means a person other than a bank, broker, transfer agent, or issuer who with respect to a security held by a minor effects a transaction otherwise than directly with the minor.

7. “Transfer agent” means a person who acts as authenticating trustee, transfer agent, registrar, or other agent for an issuer in the registration of transfers of securities, in the issue of new securities, or in the cancellation of surrendered securities.