Registration Statement Procedures

PURPOSE: This rule prescribes and clarifies the registration procedure for filing with the attorney general’s office. (1) Response to each registration statement question should be typewritten or neatly printed in ink. (2) Each question blank of the registration statement must be completed. If a question is not applicable, such should be stated and a reason should be specified. Incomplete registration statements may result in ineffective registration. (3) Additional pages may be attached to the registration statement if necessary to answer any question. The question number being answered must be referenced at the top of each attached page. (4) Each registration statement must be signed and notarized before it may be filed with the attorney general’s office. Failure to have the registration form signed and notarized will result in an ineffective registration. (5) Each registration statement filing must be accompanied by a filing fee, with the exception of Form 1-D, Employment Statement— Solicitor. This filing fee must be paid by money order, cashier’s check, personal check or corporate check payable to the Merchandising Practices Revolving Fund. The fees assessed to charitable organizations, professional fund-raiser organizations and individual professional fund-raisers will be as follows: (A) Each entity defined as a charitable organization which is not exempted under sections 407.453–407.478, RSMo shall pay a filing fee of fifteen dollars ($15) for the initial registration; (B) Each entity defined as a professional fund-raiser, whether it is an organization or an individual, shall pay a filing fee of fifty dollars ($50) for the initial registration statement; and (C) It shall be the responsibility of each professional fund-raiser organization to provide solicitor employment statements to each solicitor upon employment. The professional fund-raiser organization shall return this completed statement to the attorney general’s office within fifteen (15) days after the solicitor is hired. (6) Each registration statement and its accompanying attachments and filing fee shall be mailed to the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, Trade Offense Division, P.O. Box 899, Jefferson City, MO 65102 or may be brought to the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, Supreme Court Building, Jefferson City, Missouri. (7) Each registration statement shall be effective upon notification by the attorney general’s office that the registration statement, its attachments and the requisite filing fee have been received in proper form. (8) Within seventy-five (75) days of the close of its fiscal year, each charitable organization registrant shall file with the attorney general’s office an annual report in the form and manner prescribed under 15 CSR 60-3.100. (9) Beginning one (1) year from the date of filing its initial registration statement, as prescribed under 15 CSR 60-3.130, each professional fund-raiser organization and individual professional fund-raiser shall file with the attorney general’s office a renewal application each year. (10) Any questions regarding completion of a registration statement, filing fees, these rules or registration procedure should be directed by telephone to (314) 751-2616 or in writing to P.O. Box 899, Jefferson City, MO 65102. AUTHORITY: sections 407.145, 407.462 and 407.466, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed Jan. 9, 1987, effective June 25, 1987. *Original authority: 407.145, RSMo, amended 1993; 407.462, RSMo 1986; 407.466, RSMo 1986.