§ 4 — Participation in a multistate licensing system; background investigations

Section 4. The commissioner may participate in a multistate licensing system for the sharing of regulatory information and for the application, by electronic or other means, and licensing of persons engaged in student loan servicing. The commissioner may establish requirements for participation by an applicant in a multistate licensing system that vary from the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner may require a background investigation of each applicant for a student loan servicer license by means of fingerprint and state and national criminal history record checks by the department of criminal justice information services pursuant to section 172 of chapter 6 and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.If the applicant is a partnership, association, corporation or other form of business organization, the commissioner may require a background investigation for each member, director and principal officer of the applicant and any individual acting as a manager of an office location. The applicant shall pay directly to the multistate licensing system any additional fees related to participation in the multistate licensing system.