California Department of Corporations
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The California Department of Corporations is a department within the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency
The California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency is a state cabinet-level agency in the government of California. The Business, Transportation and Housing Agency is responsible for oversight of 14 offices and departments and four economic development programs and initiatives within the...

 in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, United States. The chief officer of the Department is Commissioner of Corporations.

Laws Administered

The Department of Corporations administers and enforces the following California laws:
  • Corporate Securities Law of 1968
  • Franchise Investment Law
  • California Commodity Law of 1990
  • Capital Access Company Law
  • Deferred Deposit Transaction Law
  • Bucket Shop
    Bucket shop
    Bucket shop refers to a particular type of fraudulent business:* Bucket shop * Bucket shop The term is used as a pejorative colloquialism to refer to different kinds of businesses, indicating that the speaker believes it is a fraud or scam...

     Law
  • Escrow
    Escrow
    An escrow is:* an arrangement made under contractual provisions between transacting parties, whereby an independent trusted third party receives and disburses money and/or documents for the transacting parties, with the timing of such disbursement by the third party dependent on the fulfillment of...

     Law
  • California Finance Lenders Law
  • California Residential Mortgage Lending Act

Commissioners

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Name Term
Preston DuFauchard 06-12-06 to present
Wayne Strumpfer (A) 04-12-05 to 06-12-06
William P. Wood (A) 12-15-03 to 04-08-05
Demetrios A. Boutris 2-15-01 to 12-14-03
William Kenefick (A) 1-4-99 to 2-14-01
Dale E. Bonner 1-26-98 to 1-3-99
Keith Paul Bishop 5-22-96 to 9-30-97
Gary S. Mendoza 8-9-93 to 3-5-96
Brian A. Thompson (A) 2-1-93 to 8-8-93
Thomas S. Sayles 6-3-91 to 1-31-93
Christine W. Bender 4-2-87 to 5-31-91
Franklin Tom 3-15-83 to 2-28-87
Geraldine D. Green 1-7-80 to 1-2-83
Robert E. LaNoue (A) 10-1-79 to 1-6-80
Peter R. Pancione (A) 5-1-79 to 9-30-79
Willie R. Barnes 1-28-75 to 4-30-79
Robert L. Toms 3-14-74 to 1-27-75
Brian R. Van Camp 9-1-71 to 3-8-74
James L. Kelly (A) 8-1-71 to 8-31-71
Anthony R. Pierno 2-13-69 to 7-31-71
Robert H. Volk 2-14-67 to 2-12-69
Jerald S. Schutzbank 12-14-65 to 1-1-67
C.E. Rickershauser, Jr. 1-20-64 to 12-13-65
A.T. Sullivan 12-20-63 to 1-19-64
John C. Sobieski 1-5-59 to 12-19-63
W.H. Stephenson 9-1-54 to 1-4-59
H.A. Smith 4-1-54 to 8-31-54
Edwin M. Daugherty 9-1-31 to 3-31-54
R. Haight 1-6-31 to 9-1-31
A. Garland 9-2-30 to 1-6-31
F.G. Athearn 1-24-30 to 8-31-30
A. Garland 10-16-29 to 1-24-30
F.G. Athearn 4-4-29 to 10-15-29
J.M. Freidlander 3-2-27 to 4-3-29
C. MacMillan 9-8-26 to 3-2-27
Edwin M. Daugherty 2-1-22 to 9-7-26
E.C. Bellows 9-23-18 to 2-1-22
H.L. Carnahan 12-30-14 to 9-23-18
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