965.105. For the purposes of this Title, “qualified issuing corporation” does not include a corporation that, in the period beginning on the first day of the fifth calendar year preceding the calendar year in which it is granted a receipt for a final prospectus or an exemption from filing a prospectus in respect of a share issue and ending at the time the receipt or exemption is granted, makes a transaction consisting in the purchase or redemption in any manner whatever, directly or indirectly, of a share of a class of its capital stock other than a share described in section 965.106.
The first paragraph applies during the period referred to in the first paragraph until the corporation has, in respect of each transaction, made an issue of shares of its capital stock that meet the requirement of paragraph b of section 965.74 and are not qualifying shares, for an amount equal to or greater than the amount of the transaction.