I. |
DEFINITIONS
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A. |
“Corporation”
shall mean Chanticleer Holdings,
Inc.
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B. |
“Access
Person” means any director, officer, general partner, or Advisory Person
of the Corporation.
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C. |
“Advisory
Person” means any employee of the Corporation, who, in connection with his
or her regular functions or duties, makes, participates in, or obtains
information regarding the purchase or sales of a security by the
Corporation, or whose functions relate to the making of any
recommendations with respect to such purchases or sales; and any
natural
person in a control relationship to the Corporation who obtains
information concerning recommendations made to the Corporation with
regard
to the purchase or sale of a
security.
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D. |
“Purchase
or sale of a security” includes, inter
alia,
the writing of an option to purchase or sell a
security.
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E. |
“Control”
shall have the same meaning as that set forth in Section 2(a)(9)
of the
Investment Company Act of 1940.
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F. |
“Security”
shall have the meaning set forth in 2(a)(36) of the Investment Company
Act
of 1940, except that it shall not include shares of registered open-end
investment companies, securities issued by the Government of the
United
States, short term debt securities which are “government securities”
within the meaning of Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company
Act of
1940, bankers’ acceptances, bank certificates of deposit, commercial
paper, and such other money market instruments as designated by the
board.
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G. |
“Beneficial
ownership” shall be interpreted in the same manner as it would be in
determining whether a person is subject to the provisions of Section
16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations
there
under, except that the determination of direct or indirect beneficial
ownership shall apply to all securities which an Access Person has
or
acquires.
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H. |
“Investment
company” means a company registered as such under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended.
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I. |
“Manipulation”
means to alter by artful, insidious, or unfair means to serve one’s
purpose.
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II. |
PROHIBITIONS
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A. |
No
Access Person of The Corporation, or any of it’s subsidiaries, shall
purchase or sell, directly or indirectly, any security in which he
or she
has, or by reason of such transaction acquires, any direct or indirect
beneficial ownership and which he or she knows or should have known
at the
time of such purchase or sale:
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1. |
is
being considered for purchase or sale by the Corporation;
or
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2. |
is
being purchased or sold by the Corporation;
or
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3. |
is
being sold short by the
Corporation.
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III. |
EXEMPTED
TRANSACTIONS
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A. |
The
prohibitions of Section 2 of this Code shall not apply
to:
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1. |
Purchases
or sales affected in any account over which the Access Person has
no
direct or indirect influence or
control.
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2. |
Purchases
or sales of securities that are not eligible for purchase or sale
by the
Corporation.
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3. |
Purchases
or sales that are not voluntary or purposefully made on the part
of either
the Access Person or the
Corporation.
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4. |
Purchases,
which are part of an automatic dividend reinvestment
plan.
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5. |
Purchases
effected upon the exercise of rights issued by an issuer pro-rata
to
all holders of a class of securities, to the extent such rights were
acquired from the issuer, and sales of such rights so
acquired.
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6. |
Purchases
or sales that receive the prior approval of the Corporation’s Board
because they are only remotely potentially harmful to the Corporation,
because they would be very unlikely to affect a highly institutional
market, or because they clearly are not related economically to the
securities to be purchased, sold or held by the
Corporation.
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IV. |
REPORTING
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A. |
Every
Access Person shall voluntarily report to the Corporation, on a timely
basis, the information described in Section 4(c) of this Code with
respect
to transactions in any security in which such Access Person has,
or by
reason of such transaction acquires, any direct or indirect beneficial
ownership in the security; provided, however, that an Access Person
shall
not be required to make a report with respect to transactions effected
for
any account over which such person does not have any direct or indirect
influence.
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B. |
An
employee of the Corporation who is not an Access Person need only
report a
transaction in a security if such director, at the time of that
transaction, knew or, in the ordinary course of fulfilling his or
her
official duties as a director of the Corporation, should have known
that,
during the 15-day period immediately preceding the date of the transaction
by the director, such security was purchased or sold by the Corporation
or
was being considered by the Corporation or its investment advisor
for the
purchase or sale by the
Corporation.
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C. |
Every
report shall be made not later than 10 days after the end of the
calendar
quarter in which the transaction to which the report relates was
effected,
and shall contain the following
information:
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1. |
The
date of the transaction, the title and number of shares, and the
principal
amount of each security involved.
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2. |
The
nature of the transaction (i.e., purchase, sale or any other type
of
acquisition or disposition).
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3. |
The
price at which the transaction was
effected.
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4. |
The
name of the broker, dealer or bank with or through whom the transaction
was effected.
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D. |
It
is the intent of the Corporation to abide by Rule 17j-1, dictating
the
reporting requirement, and as the Rule is amended, from time to time,
to
review the Rule to insure that the Corporation diligently abides
by all
aspects of the reporting requirements under said
Rule.
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V. |
SANCTIONS
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A. |
Section
(b)(1) of Rule 17j-1 requires Corporations to “use reasonable diligence,
and institute procedures reasonably necessary, to prevent violations” of
its codes of ethics.
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B. |
Upon
discovering a violation of this Code of Ethics, the board of directors
of
the Corporation may impose such sanctions as it deems appropriate,
including, inter
alia,
a
letter of censure or suspension or termination of the employment
of the
violator. Such a violation might include, but are not limited to,
filing
incomplete, untimely, or false reports and engaging in any manipulative
practice or course of business that operates as a fraud upon such
registered investment company.
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C. |
Rule
17j-1 does not supplant any obligation or prohibition to which an
Access
Person may be subject under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 or
any
other federal securities laws.
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