The Form 24F-2EL Files Dataset is a closed historical corpus of pre-1997 declarations of election under Rule 24f-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as filed on EDGAR by registered open-end management investment companies, unit investment trusts, face-amount certificate companies, and insurance company separate accounts. Each record represents a single EDGAR submission of Form 24F-2EL (an original declaration) or Form 24F-2EL/A (an amendment), identified by SEC accession number and packaged as a folder containing a parsed metadata.json header alongside one or more plain-text document-N.txt files carrying the verbatim form body. Coverage runs from November 1995, when investment companies began phasing onto EDGAR, through October 1997, when the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 (NSMIA) made the election regime obsolete by deeming all eligible funds automatically registered for an indefinite number of shares. Because the form was retired by statute, the dataset is finite: it captures essentially the full EDGAR life of Form 24F-2EL, making it the authoritative primary source for which funds opted into indefinite registration under Rule 24f-2 during its final two years.
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The dataset assembles every EDGAR submission of Form 24F-2EL and its amendment counterpart Form 24F-2EL/A, the "Declaration of Election to Register an Indefinite Number of Securities" that registered investment companies filed under former Section 24(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and Rule 24f-2 thereunder. By submitting this declaration along with a $500 election fee, a fund opted into a regime that allowed it to register an indefinite number of shares under the Securities Act of 1933 without specifying an exact number at the time of registration; the actual number sold was reconciled annually on the companion Form 24F-2 (or earlier 24F-2NT) notice, which is a separate dataset.
The form is a short, structured declaration rather than a full registration statement. The substantive disclosure about the fund itself lives in the registrant's underlying N-1A, N-2, N-3, N-4, or other registration statements; Form 24F-2EL operates only as a one-time election event keyed to specific Investment Company Act and Securities Act file numbers. NSMIA amended Section 24(f) so that all eligible investment companies were deemed automatically to have registered an indefinite amount of securities, eliminating the need for a separate election filing. Form 24F-2EL was retired effective October 1997, and the dataset's coverage window — November 1995 through October 1997 — captures essentially the full EDGAR life of the form.
Records are grouped into monthly ZIP containers under a YYYY/YYYY-MM.zip naming scheme; each ZIP expands to a single YYYY-MM/ folder that holds the per-accession record subfolders. The dataset is distributed in ZIP containers carrying JSON headers and TXT document bodies; there is no HTML, XBRL, or other structured tagging anywhere in the corpus.
One record in the Form 24F-2EL Files Dataset corresponds to a single EDGAR submission of Form 24F-2EL or Form 24F-2EL/A, identified uniquely by an SEC accession number. On disk, each record is a directory whose name is the 18-digit accession number with dashes removed (for example, 000095016897001863 corresponds to accession 0000950168-97-001863). Inside that directory sit two kinds of artifacts: a single metadata.json describing the parsed EDGAR header, and one or more plain-text documents named document-1.txt, document-2.txt, and so on, each carrying the verbatim content of one document from the original SEC submission. The packaging contract is therefore one folder per filing, with a fixed metadata file and an ordered list of text documents.
Each record folder follows a uniform two-layer structure:
metadata.json, a parsed, machine-readable view of the filing's identifying attributes, filer entities, document inventory, and SEC.gov reference URLs.document-N.txt files, each containing the raw plain-ASCII text of an individual document from the original EDGAR submission, numbered in submission sequence.The metadata.json enumerates the documents inside documentFormatFiles, providing the authoritative mapping between sequence numbers and the on-disk text files. Image-format documents from the original submission are excluded from the dataset; in practice, filings of this vintage rarely contained images, so the document set on disk almost always corresponds one-for-one with the documentFormatFiles entries that represent real exhibits, with the consolidated submission wrapper text described separately by linkToTxt and not duplicated as a standalone file.
metadata.json objectmetadata.json is a single JSON object encoding the EDGAR header of the filing. Its top-level fields are:
formType — 24F-2EL for original declarations or 24F-2EL/A for amendments.accessionNo — the canonical dashed accession number (e.g., 0000950168-97-001863).filedAt — ISO-8601 timestamp with timezone, marking the EDGAR acceptance date of the filing.description — a short EDGAR-supplied descriptor, typically along the lines of "Form 24F-2EL - Registration of securities by certain investment companies [Rule 24F-2]. Declaration of election."linkToFilingDetails — URL of the EDGAR archive folder for the accession.linkToTxt — URL of the consolidated submission text file on SEC.gov (the wrapped multi-document SGML stream).linkToHtml — URL of the EDGAR -index.htm index page for the filing.linkToXbrl — empty string; 24F-2EL predates any structured-data tagging program.documentFormatFiles — array of objects, one per document in the original SEC submission. Each entry carries sequence (string sequence number, occasionally a single space for the consolidated-wrapper row), size (string byte size), documentUrl (direct or folder URL on SEC.gov), description (free-form, frequently the issuer name with the form code or "Complete submission text file"), and type (the document-type code, normally 24F-2EL).dataFiles — array reserved for structured data files; empty for this dataset.seriesAndClassesContractsInformation — array reserved for fund series and class metadata; empty here, because that disclosure framework was introduced after Form 24F-2EL had already been retired.entities — array of filer-entity records. Each entity object describes one filer associated with the submission and carries companyName (issuer name with a role suffix such as (Filer)), cik (Central Index Key), irsNo (IRS employer identification number), fileNo (SEC file number, e.g., 002-78440), filmNo (EDGAR film number), stateOfIncorporation (two-letter state code), fiscalYearEnd (four-digit MMDD string), act (the relevant Securities or Investment Company Act code, e.g., 33), and type (form-type code for the entity row, mirroring formType).id — internal 32-character hexadecimal content identifier.document-N.txt filesEach document-N.txt file is the raw text of one document from the original EDGAR submission, in submission-sequence order. For a typical 24F-2EL filing, the body is the form template itself: a plain-ASCII rendering of the printed paper Form 24F-2 / 24F-2EL with <PAGE> page-break markers inserted by the EDGAR converter. The form text follows a consistent skeleton:
811- series); the Securities Act file number (the 2- or 33- series); the fund's fiscal-year end; the declaration's termination date; prior-year unsold securities; securities registered outside Rule 24f-2; securities sold during the year by share count and aggregate sale price; securities sold in reliance on Rule 24f-2; dividend-reinvestment-plan issuances; and a registration-fee calculation block with sub-lines (i) through (vii) deriving the fee from net sales at one thirty-third of one percent.\s\, followed by the signer's printed name, capacity (typically an officer of the registrant or its principal underwriter), and the date.For 24F-2EL/A amendments the same skeleton applies, but the body is restated to correct or supplement the prior declaration; the corrective text is generally interleaved with the standard items rather than carried as a separate marked-up redline.
All numeric content — share counts, dollar amounts, fee multipliers such as x 1/33 of 1%, and computed totals — is embedded as plain text inside the form template. There is no XML, no JSON-encoded data block, and no tagging of any individual field. Multi-document submissions, when they occur, split exhibits across document-1.txt, document-2.txt, and so on, one per <DOCUMENT> block in the original SGML submission, with the sequence numbers in documentFormatFiles providing the authoritative ordering.
Each record packages:
metadata.json,document-N.txt files,entities, anddocumentFormatFiles, which preserves the original sequence numbers, byte sizes, and SEC.gov URLs so that any document can be cross-referenced back to the live EDGAR archive.The dataset deliberately excludes image-format documents from the original submissions (for example, scanned signature pages or graphic exhibits when present), in line with the dataset's general image-omission policy. The consolidated SGML submission wrapper text — the "Complete submission text file" that EDGAR exposes via linkToTxt — is described in documentFormatFiles but is not duplicated as a separate file on disk, since its content is the concatenation of the documents already provided. The dataFiles and seriesAndClassesContractsInformation arrays carry no payload for this form.
Substantive fund disclosures — prospectuses, statements of additional information, and the fund's underlying registration statements on Forms N-1A, N-2, N-3, or N-4 — are not part of a 24F-2EL filing and therefore do not appear in any record. They live in separate EDGAR submissions cross-referenced by the Investment Company Act and Securities Act file numbers carried in the form body and in entities. The annual reconciliation notice (Form 24F-2 / Form 24F-2NT), although closely related, is a distinct filing type and is not part of this dataset either.
Form 24F-2EL had an unusually short and stable life on EDGAR. Across the November 1995 through October 1997 window, the form template, its numbered items, and the surrounding declaration language remained essentially constant; the disclosure obligation itself did not undergo iterative SEC rulemaking the way more durable forms did. The single decisive structural change is the form's abolition: NSMIA amended Section 24(f) of the Investment Company Act, and the SEC implemented this change effective October 11, 1997 by rescinding Rule 24f-1 and revising Rule 24f-2 to drop the election-and-fee mechanism. After that date the declaration of election was no longer required and Form 24F-2EL ceased to be filed. Within the active window, the only meaningful within-record variation is between original declarations (24F-2EL) and amendments (24F-2EL/A), with amendments restating the same template to correct or supplement an earlier filing.
The form's entire EDGAR life sits inside the mid-1990s ASCII-only era of EDGAR submissions, so every document body in the dataset is plain-text ASCII with <PAGE> markers and fixed-column form layout. There is no HTML rendering and no inline XBRL tagging. The file types found in the dataset reduce to JSON for the parsed header and TXT for the document bodies. Folder and file naming is uniform across the dataset: each filing is stored at <YYYY-MM>/<accessionNoDigits>/metadata.json alongside its document-N.txt files, numbered in submission sequence.
Several nuances matter when reading or extracting from a record:
documentFormatFiles may list a "Complete submission text file" entry alongside the form document, but that wrapper is not materialized as a separate file on disk. The count of document-N.txt files can therefore be lower than the length of documentFormatFiles; the wrapper's content is recoverable by concatenating the document files or by following linkToTxt.EXHIBIT A rather than enumerated inside item 1 or item 2, so identifying the full set of funds covered by a declaration generally requires reading to the end of the document body rather than scanning only the numbered-item region.entities provides the most reliable machine-readable issuer identification (CIK, file numbers, fiscal-year end, state). The body text holds the canonical declaration language, the signed declaration, and any narrative explanations of mergers, reorganizations, or assumed Rule 24f-2 / Rule 24e-2 obligations. For cross-record analysis, the metadata fields are the dependable anchor; the body supplies the legal substance./A on formType.811-...) and Securities Act file number (2-... or 33-...) embedded in the form body and mirrored in entities.fileNo are the primary keys for joining a 24F-2EL declaration to the registrant's broader filing history on EDGAR.Each record is a Form 24F-2EL (or amendment, 24F-2EL/A) submitted on EDGAR by a registered investment company electing to register an indefinite number of its securities under the Securities Act of 1933, pursuant to former Section 24(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and Rule 24f-2 thereunder. The legal filer is the investment company itself, identified on EDGAR by its CIK and by its 811- (1940 Act) and 33- (1933 Act) file numbers. The investment adviser, principal underwriter, transfer agent, and (for separate accounts) the depositor insurance company are not filers of record, even when their personnel prepared the document. For insurance products, the registered separate account is the filer, not the sponsoring insurer.
Section 24(f) and Rule 24f-2 limited eligibility to registrants offering continuously redeemable securities:
Not eligible, and therefore absent from the dataset: closed-end funds (which registered a fixed share count on Form N-2), business development companies, non-redeemable exchange-traded products, operating company issuers, foreign funds not registered under the 1940 Act, and unregistered private funds.
Form 24F-2EL is a one-time declaration of election, not a periodic or transactional report. The trigger is the registrant's affirmative, irrevocable election under Rule 24f-2(a) to register an indefinite number of securities for a specified series, class, or separate account. Filing was typically contemporaneous with, or shortly after, the fund's initial 1933 Act registration on Form N-1A, Form N-3, Form N-4, Form N-6, Form N-8B-2, or Form S-6 (or predecessors). A statutory $500 initial fee was due at the time of filing.
Once made, the election allowed the registrant to defer per-share registration fees and instead reconcile them annually through a separate Rule 24f-2 notice (Form 24F-2NT, later Form 24F-2), which is not part of this dataset.
A 24F-2EL/A amends a prior election by the same registrant, typically to correct identifying data, adjust file numbers, or extend the existing election to a newly added series of a series trust. It is not a new election.
The form's life cycle is bounded by statute. NSMIA, enacted October 11, 1996, amended Section 24(f) so that every eligible registered investment company is automatically deemed to have registered an indefinite number of its securities, eliminating both the election and the $500 fee. The SEC's implementing amendments to Rule 24f-2 took effect in 1997, after which Form 24F-2EL was retired. EDGAR-based records therefore span roughly November 1995 (the investment company EDGAR phase-in) through the form's 1997 obsolescence. Pre-EDGAR paper elections under the same regime exist historically but are not in this dataset. Funds organized after the 1997 effective date never filed 24F-2EL because indefinite registration is now conferred by statute.
Form 24F-2EL sits in a narrow family of Investment Company Act registration-mechanics filings used by open-end funds, unit investment trusts, and face-amount certificate companies to manage indefinite registration of their securities under Rule 24f-2. The most useful comparisons are other procedural forms in the Rule 24f registration sequence, plus the substantive registration statements those funds also file. The records here are short, ministerial filings about a one-time election and should not be confused with disclosure or fee-reconciliation datasets.
The operational counterpart to 24F-2EL within the same pre-1997 framework. After filing the one-time 24F-2EL election, a fund was required to file 24F-2NT annually to report aggregate sale prices and remit the registration fee on net sales.
The 24F-2EL universe is finite and closed (October 1997). 24F-2NT continued for fiscal years already in progress at NSMIA's effective date, then was absorbed by the post-NSMIA Form 24F-2 dataset.
The surviving successor that replaced both 24F-2EL and 24F-2NT after NSMIA deemed eligible funds automatically registered for an indefinite number of shares. From October 1997 onward, the separate election disappeared (making 24F-2EL obsolete) and funds began filing a single annual Form 24F-2 reporting sales, redemptions, net sales, and fees owed.
Use 24F-2 for fund flows or registration-fee revenue; use 24F-2EL for legacy registration mechanics, eligibility timing, and the transition out of the elective regime.
The earlier vehicle for registering additional fund securities under Section 24(f) before Rule 24f-2 was adopted. Same conceptual space (indefinite or supplemental registration), but procedurally upstream of the 24F-2EL/24F-2NT pair and largely retired by the time 24F-2EL became standard. Comparing the two traces the pre-NSMIA evolution of open-ended fund registration.
Cover registration of additional securities by certain investment companies (notably unit investment trusts). Same broad question — how a fund registers more shares than its initial registration statement covered — but a different statutory hook, filer subset, and procedure. Not part of the Rule 24f-2 election sequence and not made moot by NSMIA. 24F-2EL is narrower and tied specifically to the indefinite-registration election under 24(f); 24e-2 filings address a parallel supplemental-registration route and continue to appear in EDGAR after 1997. (Section 24(e))
N-1A (open-end funds, including most mutual funds) and N-2 (closed-end funds) are the prospectus-bearing registration statements that 24F-2EL filers would also have on file. The relationship is layered: N-1A or N-2 establishes the fund and its disclosures; 24F-2EL elects the indefinite-shares fee mechanism alongside it.
The content gap is large. N-1A/N-2 contain investment objectives, fee tables, financial highlights, risk factors, and trustee information running to hundreds of pages. 24F-2EL is a few-page procedural notice with no investment, performance, or governance content. Not substitutes — researchers studying a single fund typically want both: N-1A/N-2 for substance, 24F-2EL for the registration-mechanics timestamp.
Amendments to a previously filed declaration of election. Included within this dataset rather than treated separately, structurally identical to the base form but flagged as a revision. As with 10-K/10-K/A, lineage and most-recent-as-of analyses require treating /A and base filings together under a single registrant.
The 24F-2EL dataset is distinct because it is:
To identify which funds opted into Rule 24f-2 indefinite registration during the brief EDGAR-era window before NSMIA made the election automatic, 24F-2EL is the only direct primary source. To trace what those funds did afterward (volumes, fees, reconciliation), move forward to 24F-2NT and Form 24F-2. To study the funds themselves, move sideways to N-1A or N-2.
The Form 24F-2EL Files Dataset is an archival authority file, not a general investment dataset. It serves a narrow set of professionals who need authoritative records of pre-NSMIA fund registration elections.
Fund counsel use the dataset to reconstruct registration history when a fund's share-issuance authority traces to a pre-October 1997 election. The declaration text, SEC file numbers, registrant identity, and fee acknowledgment support legal opinions, responses to staff inquiries on indefinite-registration status, and defense of share issuances made under the prior regime.
Compliance teams at advisers and fund administrators pull these filings during SEC examinations and internal audits of legacy products. They verify that the original election was made, that any 24F-2EL/A amendment was timely, and that the $500 fee was acknowledged — evidence that feeds compliance dossiers and written supervisory procedures.
In fund-complex acquisitions, mergers, and adviser sales, in-house and outside diligence teams retrieve the original 24F-2EL declarations to confirm continuous registration validity since inception. The filings become data-room exhibits supporting representations on registration standing, share-issuance authority, and absence of regulatory defects.
Operations and transfer-agent audit specialists use the declarations as the authority documents underlying 1995–1997 share issuances. They are pulled during net asset value restatement reviews, legacy share-record reconciliation, and resolution of registration-related discrepancies on long-running funds.
Scholars of investment-company law and NSMIA's legislative history treat the closed filing population as a bounded empirical record of how funds used the election mechanism in its final two years. Filing dates, registrant identities, and amendment patterns ground quantitative claims about the pre-NSMIA registration regime.
Engineering teams maintaining full EDGAR mirrors and form-type catalogs ingest this dataset to close coverage gaps for an obsolete form. The metadata index and per-accession submission documents normalize cleanly alongside active form types so historical queries return complete results.
Teams building retrieval systems over EDGAR include this corpus so legal and compliance assistants can answer pre-NSMIA registration questions with cited source material rather than hallucinating about a rare, obsolete form.
Specialists reconstructing legacy fund lineage — for prospectus inception disclosures, internal product histories, or marketing timelines — use the registrant identities, file numbers, and election dates to document precisely how each legacy fund obtained indefinite-share registration authority.
The following workflows are grounded in the dataset's two-layer per-record structure (metadata.json plus document-N.txt) and its closed November 1995 – October 1997 coverage window.
Fund counsel resolving a question about a legacy fund's share-issuance authority pulls every record whose entities.cik or entities.fileNo (the 811- Investment Company Act number and the 2- / 33- Securities Act number) matches the registrant. The body of document-1.txt supplies the dated declaration language, signature block, and any narrative paragraphs about merger or assumption of a predecessor fund's Rule 24f-2 / 24e-2 obligations. The output is a registration-history exhibit citing accession numbers, filedAt timestamps, and the canonical declaration text.
Researchers and EDGAR-completeness engineers iterate the records to produce a definitive list of registrants that elected indefinite registration during the form's EDGAR life. Joining entities.companyName, cik, fileNo, stateOfIncorporation, and fiscalYearEnd across records yields a single roster covering November 1995 through October 1997, ready for cross-reference against later Form 24F-2 / 24F-2NT filings to trace how each filer transitioned through NSMIA.
/A amendmentsBecause amendments are filed as separate accessions, lineage analysis groups records by entities.cik and orders them by filedAt, distinguishing originals from amendments via the trailing /A on formType. The workflow surfaces every original-then-amendment pair, lets a compliance reviewer diff the two document-1.txt bodies to identify what was corrected, and produces an amendment-pattern summary for SEC-exam preparation or academic study of the regime's final two years.
Fund-family genealogists and prospectus-history teams parse the tail of each document-N.txt for the EXHIBIT A block, where most filers enumerated the individual series and classes covered by the declaration rather than listing them inline under item 1 or item 2. The extracted series names, joined back to the registrant's CIK, become the authoritative series-level mapping of which funds within a complex obtained indefinite-share authority under the pre-NSMIA regime.
Teams building EDGAR-aware legal and compliance assistants ingest the dataset so questions like "did Fund X file a 24F-2EL declaration, and on what date?" or "what does the standard election-of-indefinite-registration paragraph say?" resolve to cited passages from real filings. The compact total size makes the corpus cheap to embed in full, and the per-document documentUrl and linkToFilingDetails fields in metadata.json give the assistant verifiable citation links back to SEC.gov.
Diligence teams acquiring an asset manager retrieve the relevant 24F-2EL records for each acquired legacy fund and drop them into the registration-validity section of the data room. The combination of the parsed metadata.json (proving filing identity and acceptance date) and the document-1.txt body (carrying the signed declaration and fee acknowledgment) is sufficient evidence to back representations that pre-1997 share issuances rested on a properly executed Rule 24f-2 election.
Dataset Index JSON API: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-24f2el-files.json
This endpoint returns the dataset metadata, including name, description, last updated timestamp, earliest sample date, total record and size counts, covered form types (24F-2EL and 24F-2EL/A), container format (ZIP), and included file types (TXT, JSON). The response also lists every container file in the dataset along with its size, record count, last updated timestamp, and direct download URL. Polling this endpoint allows clients to detect which containers were modified during the most recent refresh and to download only the changed archives. No API key is required to access this endpoint.
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"name": "Form 24F-2EL Files Dataset",
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Download Entire Dataset: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-24f2el-files.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Downloads the complete dataset as a single ZIP archive containing all monthly containers from November 1995 through October 1997. This endpoint requires an API key.
Download Single Container: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-24f2el-files/1995/1995-11.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Downloads one individual monthly container archive without retrieving the entire dataset. Substitute the year and month segments to target a different container, as listed in the dataset index. This endpoint requires an API key.
The dataset covers Form 24F-2EL, the "Declaration of Election to Register an Indefinite Number of Securities" filed under former Section 24(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and Rule 24f-2, together with its amendment counterpart Form 24F-2EL/A. Both form types are packaged using the same record structure.
One record represents a single EDGAR submission of Form 24F-2EL or 24F-2EL/A, identified by SEC accession number and stored as a folder containing a parsed metadata.json header alongside one or more plain-text document-N.txt files carrying the verbatim form body in submission-sequence order.
Eligibility was limited to registered investment companies offering continuously redeemable securities: open-end management investment companies (mutual funds and their series), unit investment trusts (including those funding variable annuity and variable life separate accounts), face-amount certificate companies, and insurance company separate accounts registered under the 1940 Act. Closed-end funds, business development companies, operating-company issuers, and unregistered private funds were not eligible.
The dataset begins November 1, 1995, when investment companies phased onto EDGAR, and ends in October 1997. NSMIA, enacted October 11, 1996, amended Section 24(f) so that all eligible registered investment companies are automatically deemed to have registered an indefinite number of securities; the SEC's implementing rule changes took effect in October 1997, retiring Form 24F-2EL. The dataset therefore captures essentially the full EDGAR life of the form.
Form 24F-2EL is a one-time election to opt into the indefinite-registration regime, accompanied by a flat $500 fee and no sales data. Form 24F-2NT was the recurring annual fee-reconciliation notice tied to actual share-sale volume under the same pre-NSMIA framework. Form 24F-2 is the post-NSMIA unified annual notice that replaced both 24F-2EL and 24F-2NT after October 1997. Each has its own dataset; this one covers only the election and its amendments.
The dataset is distributed as monthly ZIP containers under a YYYY/YYYY-MM.zip naming scheme. Each container expands to per-accession folders containing a metadata.json (parsed EDGAR header) and one or more document-N.txt plain-ASCII document bodies. There is no HTML, XBRL, or other structured tagging, because the form predates EDGAR's structured-data tagging programs.
A public dataset index is available at https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-24f2el-files.json and requires no API key; it lists every monthly container with size, record count, last-updated timestamp, and direct download URL. The full dataset can be downloaded as one ZIP at https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-24f2el-files.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY, and individual monthly containers can be fetched at https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-24f2el-files/{YYYY}/{YYYY-MM}.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY. The download endpoints require an API key.