An exchange facilitator shall notify each client whose relinquished property, as defined in 26 CFR 1.1031(k)-1(a), is located in this state or whose replacement property, as defined in 26 CFR 1.1031(k)-1(a), held under a qualified exchange accommodation agreement is located in this state, of any change in control of the exchange facilitator. The exchange facilitator shall notify each such client not later than ten business days after the effective date of such change in control by facsimile, electronic mail transmission or first class mail and by posting such notice of change of control on the exchange facilitator's Internet web site for a period ending not earlier than ninety days after the change in control. Such notification shall set forth the name, address and other contact information of the persons to whom control was transferred. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, if the exchange facilitator is a publicly traded company and remains a publicly traded company after a change in control, the publicly traded company shall not be required to notify its existing clients of such change in control. For purposes of this section, “change in control” means any transfer or transfers within a twelve-month period of more than fifty per cent of the assets or ownership interests, directly or indirectly, of the exchange facilitator.
(P.A. 13-135, S. 6.)