§ 37:2584 — Application for license

Application for license to engage in the financial planning and management business in this state shall be made to the director and shall be in writing, under oath, and in the form prescribed by the director, and shall contain the full name and address of the applicant and, if the applicant is a copartnership or association, of every member thereof and if a corporation, of each officer and director thereof; the application shall also contain the parish and municipality with street and number, if any, where the business is to be conducted, and such other pertinent information as the director may require.
Each applicant, at the time of making such application, shall pay to the director the sum of thirty dollars as a fee for investigation of the applicant, and the additional sum of one hundred dollars as a license fee. Every applicant shall submit to the director, at the time of the application for a license, a bond to be approved by the director in which the applicant shall be the obligor, in the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars and in which a company which is duly authorized by the State of Louisiana to transact the business of fidelity and surety insurance shall be a surety; provided, however, the director may accept in lieu of the surety bond, a deposit in cash, a certified check payable to the director of the Division of Occupational Standards, or United States government bonds.
The bond shall run to the State of Louisiana for the use of the state and of any person or persons who may have a cause of action against the obligor in said bond under and by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter. Such bond shall be conditioned that said obligor will faithfully conform to and abide by the provisions of this Chapter and of all rules, regulations and directions lawfully made by the director hereunder and will pay to the state and to any such person or persons any and all money that may become due or owing to the state or to such person or persons, from said obligor under and by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter.

Legislative History

Acts 1970, No. 423, §4.