Proposition Summary
Initiative act authorizing governor to appoint auditor of investments empowered to employ deputies and fix their compensation, defining investment companies, authorizing examination thereof by auditor and judicial investigation of their practices, defining securities and prohibiting same thereof to public, or taking subscriptions therefor, by such companies before filing with auditor their financial statement and description of security, excepting from act certain companies and individuals, securities thereof and certain installment securities, regulating advertisements and circulars regarding securities, creating fund from official fees for salaries and expenses under act: repeals all laws on subject adopted heretofore or concurrently herewith.
Proposition Number
40
Year
1914
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Fail
Popular Vote Results
Y: 249500; A: 41.4; N: 353812; B: 58.6
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Initiative
For Author
W. C. Wallace
Against Author
Lee C. Gates, State Senator Thirty-fourth District
Recommended Citation
REGULATING INVESTMENT COMPANIES California Proposition 40 (1914).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/73