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Compliance Rules


Part 2 - Rules Governing the Business Conduct of Members Registered with the Commission

RULE 2-22. PROHIBITED REPRESENTATIONS.

[Adopted effective April 22, 1983. Effective date of amendments: August 1, 1985 and August 21, 2001]

No Member or Associate shall represent or imply in any manner whatsoever that such Member or Associate has been sponsored, recommended or approved, or that such Member's or Associate's abilities have in any respect been passed upon, by NFA or any federal or state regulatory body: Provided, however, that this Rule shall not prohibit a Member from stating the fact of membership, or an Associate from stating the fact of registration as an Associate if the effect of NFA membership or registration as an Associate is not misrepresented, or from discussing or explaining the functions and purposes of NFA.