Advisory Opinions

Requests for interpretations and other rulings under Title 1 of ERISA are handled by the Office of Regulations and Interpretations under the provisions established by ERISA Procedure 76-1. The office answers inquiries from individuals and organizations in the form of advisory opinions, which apply the law to a specific set of facts, or information letters, which merely call attention to well established principles or interpretations.

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**1975**
AO/ Date/ Reference	Recipient	Description of Request
1975-120 06/09/1975 412	Anonymous	Request for a postponement of the bonding requirements under section 412 of ERISA.
1975-12 07/17/1975 3(2)	Anonymous	Whether a profit sharing plan is covered by ERISA.
1975-119 05/21/1975 412	Anonymous	Whether an Impartial Chairman in a collectively bargained welfare and pension plan must be bonded under section 412 of ERISA.
1975-117 05/06/1975 412	Anonymous	What is the minimum number of employees under a profit sharing plan before fiduciaries are required to be bonded under the provisions ERISA.
1975-111 09/26/1975 407	Anonymous	Whether certain parcels of real property owned by the defined benefit plans sponsored by an employer constitute "qualifying employer real property" under section 407(d)(4) of ERISA.
1975-108 03/05/1975	Anonymous	Whether loans from a pension plan to employees of the employer who established the plan are prohibited under ERISA.
1975-106 02/25/1975	Anonymous	Whether the rendering of mere advice by a broker-dealer to a plan makes the broker-dealer an investment adviser or a person exercising discretionary authority or control over plan assets.
1975-105 11/20/1975 406	anonymous	Legality of a proposed loan by a plan to a physician employee shareholder who is also a participant, party in interest, and trustee of the plan under ERISA.
1975-103 10/22/1975 406	Anonymous	Whether a proposed transaction between a Savings and Loan Association and the Pension Trust of Southern California would violate section 406 of ERISA.
1975-101 10/04/1975	Anonymous	Whether section 208 of ERISA applies to a corporate merger in which the pension plans were not being merged.