(a) Every application for a license shall be in writing in the form prescribed by the Commissioner and shall contain the name and complete address or addresses where the business of the applicant is to be conducted and, if the applicant be a partnership, association, corporation or other form of business organization, the names and complete addresses of each member, director and principal officer thereof. Such application shall also include a description of the activities of the applicant, in such detail and for such periods as the Commissioner may require, as well as such further information as the Commissioner may require. The Commissioner, at the time the application is submitted or in connection with an investigation of the application, may require the applicant, the spouse of the applicant, a principal of, individual who is a person in control of, or proposed responsible individual of the applicant, or any other individual associated with the applicant and the proposed licensed activities, to provide the Commissioner or the Commissioner’s designee with a complete set of fingerprints for purposes of a criminal background investigation. Such applicant, at the time of making such application, shall pay to the Commissioner as an investigation fee the sum of $250 which shall not be refundable.

(b) Upon approval, the applicant shall pay an annual license fee of $250 which shall be payable annually thereafter. No abatement in the amount of said license fee shall be made if the license is issued for less than 1 year or if the license is surrendered, canceled or revoked prior to the expiration of the period for which such license was issued. Every license shall expire on December 31 of each year.

(c) In addition to the annual license fee required by subsection (b) of this section, each licensee making short-term consumer loans, as defined in § 2227 of this title, and/or title loans, as defined in § 2250 of this title, shall pay an annual high-cost loan license fee surcharge of $1,500 for each licensed office. There is hereby created within the State Treasury a special fund to be designated as the Financial Literacy Education Fund which shall be used to fund grants to or contracts with schools or other organizations that provide financial and economic literacy skills to adults and youth in accordance with guidelines and/or regulations to be established by the Commissioner and the Delaware Secretary of Education. All fees which are by law payable under this subsection shall be paid into the State Treasury and to the credit of the Financial Literacy Education Fund.

66 Del. Laws, c. 22, § 1; 68 Del. Laws, c. 105, § 20; 77 Del. Laws, c. 164, § 2; 82 Del. Laws, c. 78, § 2.