(a) Each applicant for a check cashing license shall pay to the system any required fees or charges and a nonrefundable initial license fee of one thousand one hundred dollars. Each license issued pursuant to section 36a-581 shall expire at the close of business on December thirty-first of the year in which the license is approved, unless such license is renewed, except that any such license approved on or after November first shall expire at the close of business on December thirty-first of the year following the year in which it is approved. An application for renewal of a license shall be filed between November first and December thirty-first of the year in which such license expires. Each applicant for the renewal of such license shall pay to the system any required fees or charges and a nonrefundable renewal fee of eight hundred dollars.

(b) The commissioner may, in accordance with section 36a-24b, automatically suspend the license of any licensee who has received a deficiency on the system indicating that a required payment was Returned-ACH or returned pursuant to any other term as may be utilized by the system to indicate that payment was not accepted. After a license has been automatically suspended pursuant to this subsection, the commissioner shall (1) give the licensee notice of such automatic suspension pending proceedings for revocation of or refusal to renew the license pursuant to section 36a-587 and an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with section 36a-51, and (2) require the licensee to take or refrain from taking action as the commissioner deems necessary to effectuate the purpose of this section.

(c) Each licensee shall pay the expenses of any examination or other investigation under sections 36a-580 to 36a-589, inclusive.

(d) No abatement of any fee required by this section shall be made if the application is denied or withdrawn prior to issuance of the license or if the license is surrendered, cancelled, revoked or suspended prior to the expiration of the period for which it was issued.

(P.A. 88-200, S. 3; P.A. 89-178, S. 3, 8; P.A. 92-89, S. 16, 20; P.A. 94-122, S. 271, 340; P.A. 95-253, S. 14, 19; P.A. 04-14, S. 2; 04-257, S. 106; P.A. 05-46, S. 9; P.A. 06-35, S. 5; P.A. 09-208, S. 11; P.A. 18-173, S. 44.)

History: P.A. 89-178 substituted the commissioner of banking for the commissioner of consumer protection in Subsec. (a); Sec. 21-113 transferred to Sec. 36-566 in 1991; P.A. 92-89 increased the license fees in Subsec. (a) from $250 to $1,000; P.A. 94-122 made technical changes, effective January 1, 1995; Sec. 36-566 transferred to Sec. 36a-582 in 1995; P.A. 95-253 amended Subsec. (a) to change the license fee and renewal license fee and to add application and location transfer fees, and made technical changes to Subsecs. (b) and (c), effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 04-14 inserted new Subsec. (b), requiring commissioner to automatically suspend license or approval or renewal license if commissioner determines that a check filed to pay an application or license fee has been dishonored and requiring commissioner to give notice of the automatic suspension pending proceedings for revocation or refusal to renew and an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with Sec. 36a-51, and providing that if commissioner determines a check filed to pay a location transfer fee has been dishonored, commissioner shall automatically suspend the location transfer approval pending revocation of such approval by commissioner and an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with Sec. 36a-51, and redesignated existing Subsecs. (b) and (c) as Subsecs. (c) and (d), respectively; P.A. 04-257 made a technical change in Subsec. (a); P.A. 05-46 amended Subsec. (a) to add Subdiv. (1) re nonrefundable name change fee of $100 for each application to change a name and to designate provision re location transfer fee as Subdiv. (2), amended Subsec. (b) to delete requirement for automatic suspension of location transfer approval if commissioner determines that check filed with commissioner to pay location transfer fee has been dishonored, and amended Subsec. (d) to delete provision re no abatement of location transfer fee; P.A. 06-35 amended Subsec. (a) to revise procedures and fees for application, renewal and expiration of licenses, changing period of validity of licenses from one to two years, deleting reference to application fee and inserting references to license and location fees, and imposing a $100 late fee for late filings of renewal applications, and amended Subsecs. (b) and (d) to delete reference to application fee and insert reference to location fee; P.A. 09-208 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 7, 2009; P.A. 18-173 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “commissioner” with “system any required fees or charges and”, changing initial license fee from $2,000 to $1,100, deleting provision re nonrefundable location fee, deleting provision re fees when application is filed not earlier than one year before license expiration, deleting provisions re nonrefundable fees in former Subdivs. (1) and (2) and replacing provisions re license expiration and renewal with provisions re same, amended Subsec. (b) by replacing provisions re automatic suspension of license with provisions re same, amended Subsec. (c) by deleting “applicant or”, amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “the license or location fee” with “any fee required by this section” and adding “application is denied or withdrawn prior to issuance of the license or if the”, and made technical and conforming changes.