Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 15 - ELECTED OFFICIALS › Division 60 - Attorney General › Chapter 3 - Charitable Organizations and Solicitations Rules › Section 15 CSR 60-3.130 - Renewal Application Procedure for Professional Fund-Raisers

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule prescribes the procedures
				  professional fund-raiser organizations and individual fund-raiser organizations
				  shall use in filing a renewal application with the attorney general's
				  office.
(1) Registration
				statements filed by professional fund-raisers shall expire one (1) year from
				the date of filing. Each professional fund-raiser organization and individual
				professional fund-raiser shall file, ten (10) days before the expiration date,
				a renewal application with the attorney general's office. The renewal
				application forms to be used are those prescribed in
				15
				CSR 60-3.110 and
				15
				CSR 60-3.120.
(2) Each question blank of the renewal
				application must be completed, either typewritten or neatly printed in black
				ink. If a question is not applicable, this should be stated and a reason should
				be stated and a reason should be specified. Incomplete renewal applications may
				result in the expiration of registration.
(3) Additional pages may be attached to the
				renewal application if necessary to answer any question. The question number
				being answered must be referenced at the top of each attached page.
(4) Each renewal application must be signed
				and notarized before it may be filed with the attorney general's office.
				Failure to have renewal application signed and notarized will result in an
				ineffective application and may result in expiration of registration.
(5) Each renewal application shall be
				accompanied by a money order, cashier's check, personal check or corporate
				check, made payable to the Merchandising Practices Revolving Fund, in the
				amount of fifty dollars ($50).
(6)
				The registration of each professional fund-raiser organization and individual
				fundraiser who does not file a complete renewal application by the renewal date
				shall be considered delinquent.
(7)
				Each renewal application filed thirty (30) days after the renewal date shall be
				assessed a late filing fee of ten dollars ($10).
(8) Any professional fund-raiser organization
				or individual professional fund-raiser who fails to file a renewal application
				with the attorney general's office within forty-five (45) days after the
				renewal date shall forfeit its registration. Any solicitation of funds for a
				charitable purpose after forfeiture of registration shall be deemed a violation
				of section
				407.466,
				RSMo.
(9) To renew a registration
				after its forfeiture, a professional fund-raiser organization or individual
				professional fund-raiser shall submit to the attorney general's office a
				complete registration statement. The registration statement shall be
				accompanied by a reinstatement filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25) in
				addition to the usual filing fee of fifty dollars ($50). At the top of the
				first page of the registration statement, disclose the previous registration
				number and indicate the registration statement is for reinstatement.
(10) All inquiries regarding renewal
				applications should be directed, by mail, to the Office of the Attorney
				General, Trade Offense Division, P.O. Box 899, Jefferson City, MO 65102, (314)
				751-2616.
*Original authority: 407.145, RSMo 1986, amended 1993;
					 407.466, RSMo 1986.