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PUBLIC LAW 85-699-AUG. 21, 1958

(b) Each small business investment company may make use, wherever practicable, of the advisory services of the Federal Reserve System and of the Department of Commerce which are available for and useful to industrial and commercial businesses, and may provide consulting and advisory services on a fee basis and have on its staff persons competent to provide such services. Any Federal Eeserve bank is authorized to act as a depository or fiscal agent for any company organized under this Act. Such companies may invest funds not reasonably leeded for their current operations in direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States. (c) The Administration is authorized to prescribe regulations governing the operations of small business investment companies, and to carry out the provisions of this Act, in accordance with the purposes of this Act. Each small business investment company shall be subject to examinations made by direction of the Administration by examiners selected or approved by the Administration, and the cost of such examinations, including the compensation of the examiners, may in the discretion of the Administration be assessed against the company examined and when so assessed shall be paid by such company. Every such company shall make such reports to the Administration at such times and in such form as the Administration may require; except that the Administration is authorized to exempt from making such reports any such company which is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 to the extent necessary to avoid duplication in reporting requirements. (d) Should any small business investment company violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Act or of regulations prescribed hereunder, all of its rights, privileges, and franchises derived therefrom may thereby be forfeited. Before any such company shall be declared dissolved, or its rights, privileges, and franchises forfeited, any noncompliance with or violation of this Act shall be determined and adjudged by a court of the United States of competent jurisdiction in a suit brought for that purpose in the district, territory, or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, in which the principal office of such company is located. Any such suit shall be brought by the United States at the instance of the Administration or the Attorney General. (e) Whenever in the judgment of the Administration any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation of any provision of this Act or of any regulation thereunder, the Administration may make application to the proper district court of the United States, or a United States court of any Territory or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, for an order enjoining such acts or practices, or for an order enforcing compliance with such provision, or regulation, and such courts shall have jurisdiction of such actions and, upon a showing by the Administration that such person has engaged or is about to engage in any such acts or practices, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order, shall be granted without bond. (f) Any small business investment company may at any time within the two years next previous to the date of the expiration of its corporate existence, by a vote of the shareholders owning twothirds of its stock, apply to the Administration for approval to extend the period of its corporate existence for a term of not more than thirty years, and upon approval of the Administration, as provided in section 301 hereof, such company shall have its corporate existence extended for such approved period unless sooner dissolved by the act

Advisory services.

E X a m i ri ations, etc.

54 Stat. 789. 15 USC 80a-51. None omplianc e.

Restraining ders.

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