(a) Each person applying for registration as a broker-dealer or investment adviser shall pay to the commissioner or to any person designated by the commissioner in writing to collect such fee on behalf of the commissioner, a nonrefundable fee of three hundred forty dollars.

(b) Each person applying for registration as an agent or investment adviser agent shall pay to the commissioner or to any person designated by the commissioner to collect such fee on behalf of the commissioner, a nonrefundable fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars.

(c) Each registration issued pursuant to this section shall expire at the close of business on December thirty-first of the calendar year in which the registration became effective.

(d) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, each person registered as an agent or investment adviser agent, requesting transfer of the registration of such agent or investment adviser agent to another registered broker-dealer or investment adviser, shall pay to the commissioner or to any person designated by the commissioner in writing to collect such fee on behalf of the commissioner, a nonrefundable fee of one hundred dollars for each transfer requested.

(2) Each broker-dealer or investment adviser receiving a mass transfer shall pay to the commissioner or to any person designated by the commissioner in writing to collect such fee on behalf of the commissioner, a nonrefundable fee of seventy-five dollars for each agent or investment adviser agent whose registration is transferred. For purposes of this subsection, “mass transfer” means a transfer of multiple agents of a broker-dealer or investment adviser agents of an investment adviser from a transferring broker-dealer or investment adviser to a receiving broker-dealer or investment adviser due to a cessation of business activity, succession, acquisition, merger, consolidation or other reorganization affecting the transferring broker-dealer or investment adviser.

(e) Each person applying for registration under subsection (a) or (b) of this section and any registrant applying for renewal of such registration under section 36b-13 shall pay the actual cost, as determined by the commissioner, of any reasonable investigation or examination made of such applicant or registrant by or on behalf of the commissioner.

(P.A. 77-482, S. 11; P.A. 78-34, S. 4, 17; P.A. 83-368, S. 4, 11; P.A. 04-45, S. 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 382; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 669.)

History: P.A. 78-34 reduced fee in Subsec. (c) from $20 to $15; P.A. 83-368 made each registration expire on December thirty-first of each calendar year unless renewed, increased the registration fee for broker-dealers or investment advisors to $250 and for agents or investment advisor agents to $50 and made technical changes; Sec. 36-480 transferred to Sec. 36b-12 in 1995; P.A. 04-45 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to make technical changes, amended Subsec. (c) to change expiration of each registration issued under section from December thirty-first of each calendar year unless renewed to at the close of business on December thirty-first of the calendar year in which the registration became effective, amended Subsec. (d) to designate existing provisions as Subdiv. (1) and amend same by making technical changes and providing that $50 fee be nonrefundable and to add Subdiv. (2) requiring each broker-dealer or investment adviser receiving a mass transfer to pay nonrefundable $50 fee for each agent or investment adviser agent whose registration is transferred and defining “mass transfer”, and amended Subsec. (e) to make technical changes; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsecs. (a), (b) and (d)(1) to increase fees; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) to replace $315 fee with $340 fee, amended Subsec. (b) to replace $100 fee with $125 fee, and amended Subsec. (d)(2) to replace $50 fee with $75 fee, effective December 1, 2017.