1. A broker-dealer, agent, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative may obtain an initial or renewal license by filing with the administrator, or an organization which the administrator by rule designates, an application together with a consent to service of process pursuant to section 502.609 and the appropriate filing fee. The application shall contain information the administrator requires by rule concerning the applicant's form and place of organization, proposed method of doing business and financial condition, and the qualifications and experience of the applicant. In the case of a broker-dealer or investment adviser, the application shall include the qualifications and experience of any partner, officer, director or controlling person, any injunction or administrative order or conviction of a misdemeanor involving securities and any conviction of a felony, and any other matters which the administrator determines are relevant to the application. In addition, in the case of an investment adviser, the application shall include any information to be furnished or disseminated to any client or prospective client, and any other information which the administrator determines is relevant to the application. If no denial order is in effect and no proceeding is pending under section 502.304, registration becomes effective at noon of the sixtieth day after a completed application or an amendment completing the application is filed, unless waived by the applicant. The administrator may by rule or order specify an earlier effective date.
2. Except with respect to federal covered advisers whose only clients are those described in section 502.301, subsection 3, paragraph "b", a federal covered adviser shall file with the administrator, prior to acting as a federal covered adviser in this state, such documents as have been filed with the securities and exchange commission as the administrator, by rule or order, may require.
3. Every applicant for initial or renewal registration as a broker-dealer or investment adviser shall pay a filing fee of two hundred dollars. Every applicant for initial or renewal registration as an agent or investment adviser representative shall pay a filing fee of thirty dollars. A filing fee is not refundable. Every person acting as a federal covered adviser in this state, except with respect to federal covered advisers whose only clients are those described in section 502.301, subsection 3, paragraph "b", shall pay an initial and renewal notice filing fee of one hundred dollars.
4. A registered broker-dealer, federal covered adviser, or investment adviser may file an application for registration of a successor, whether or not the successor is then in existence, for the unexpired portion of the year. There shall be no filing fee.
5. The administrator may by rule or order require a minimum capital for broker-dealers subject to the limitations of section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The administrator by rule or order may also establish minimum financial requirements for investment advisers, subject to the limitations of section 222 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which may include different requirements for those investment advisers who maintain custody of client funds or securities or who have discretionary authority over client funds or securities and those investment advisers who do not.
6. The administrator may by rule or order require investment advisers who have custody of or discretionary authority over client funds or securities to post bonds in amounts as the administrator may prescribe, subject to the limitations of section 222 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and may determine conditions on the bonds. A bond shall not be required of any investment adviser whose minimum financial requirements, which may be defined by rule, exceed the amounts required by the administrator. Every bond shall provide for suit on the bond by the person who has a cause of action under this chapter and, if the administrator by rule or order requires, by any person who has a cause of action not arising under this chapter. Every bond shall provide that a suit shall not be maintained to enforce liability on the bond unless brought within the time limitations of section 502.504.
7. The administrator may by rule or order impose such other conditions in connection with registration under this chapter as are deemed appropriate, in the public interest or for the protection of investors.
[SS15, § 1920-u15, -u16; C24, 27, § 8561, 8563, 8571; C31, 35, § 8581-c11, -c14; C39, § 8581.11, 8581.18; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, § 502.11, 502.18; C77, 79, 81, § 502.302; 82 Acts, ch 1003, § 2]
83 Acts, ch 169, § 10, 18; 91 Acts, ch 40, §20-22; 94 Acts, ch 1031, §14; 96 Acts, ch 1025, § 8; 97 Acts, ch 114, §10; 98 Acts, ch 1106, §5, 24
Referred to in §502.301, 534.702, 534.704
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