Renewal Application Procedure for Professional Fund-Raisers

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. AUTHORITY: sections 407.145 and 407.466, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed Jan. 9, 1987, effective June 25, 1987. *Original authority: 407.145, RSMo 1986, amended 1993; 407.466, RSMo 1986.