TITLE XXXVI
PAWNBROKERS AND MONEYLENDERS

CHAPTER 399-G
LICENSING OF MONEY TRANSMITTERS

Section 399-G:9

    399-G:9 Continuing Obligation to Update. –
I. No licensee shall engage in the business of money transmission under a trade or other name that is different from the name stated in its principal office license without immediately notifying the commissioner, who shall then amend the license and any registrations accordingly.
II. (a) A licensee shall submit written notification to the department of the addition or deletion of a principal, and shall provide the name and address of each new principal no later than 30 days after such change.
(b) Each new principal shall authorize the commissioner to conduct a background check.
(c) The commissioner shall investigate management and ownership changes including, but not limited to, each principal's qualifications and business history.
(d) Prior to the commissioner's approval of such change of a principal, the licensee shall disclose any injunction or administrative order that has been issued against the principal and whether the principal has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving financial services or a financial services-related business, or any fraud, false statements or omissions, theft or any wrongful taking of property, bribery, perjury, forgery, counterfeiting, or extortion, or a conspiracy to commit any of these offenses, or convicted of any felony.
III. Licensees shall provide written notice to the department of any change in location or closing of any office no later than 30 business days following the effective date of such change of location or closing. In the case of an emergency, as determined by the commissioner, a licensee may close a registered authorized delegate office and provide notice of the closure to the department within 2 business days. Failure to comply with the provisions of this paragraph shall be sufficient cause for license revocation or denial of license renewal applications.
IV. Persons licensed under this chapter are under a continuing obligation to update information on file with the commissioner. If any information filed with the commissioner becomes materially inaccurate, the licensee shall promptly submit to the commissioner an amendment to its application that will correct the information on file with the commissioner. An amendment shall be considered filed promptly if the amendment is filed within 30 days after the event that requires the filing of the amendment.
V. Significant events shall be reported to the department in writing within 10 calendar days.
VI. Any officer, owner, manager, or agent of any licensee, and any person controlling or having a contract under which he or she has a right to control such a licensee, whether exclusively or otherwise, and any person with executive authority over or in charge of any segment of such a licensee's affairs, shall reply promptly in writing, or in other designated form, to any written inquiry from the commissioner requesting a reply. The commissioner may require that any communication made to him or her under this section be verified.

Source. 2015, 258:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2016. 2019, 36:45, eff. May 15, 2019.