§ 275-a. Registration; penalty for failure. Every person acting individually or as a trustee, firm, company, association or corporation engaged in whole or in part in the making or negotiating of sales, agreements to sell, deliveries or transfers of shares or certificates taxable under this article, or conducting or transacting a stock brokerage business, and every corporation, stock association, company or trustee which shall maintain a principal office or place of business within the state or which shall keep or cause to be kept within the state of New York a place for the sale, transfer or delivery of its stock, or other certificates included within this article, shall within ten days after the amendment to this section shall take effect if such a certificate shall not have been theretofore filed with the state comptroller, or within ten days after engaging in such business or after establishing such principal office or place of business, or such place for the sale or transfer of its certificates, as the case may be, file in the office of the tax commission a certificate setting forth the name under which such business is, or is to be, conducted or transacted, and the true or real full name or names of the person or persons conducting or transacting the same, with the post office address or addresses of said person or persons, unless the party so certifying be a corporation or trustee, in which event it shall set forth its said principal office or place of business and when and where incorporated or organized. Said certificate shall be executed and duly acknowledged by the person or persons so conducting or intending to conduct said business or by the president or secretary of the corporation as the case may be.

In the event of a change in the persons composing such firm, company or association or of the persons acting as such trustees or of the address of any such person, firm, company, association, corporation or trustees, or termination of such business or relationship, a like certificate setting forth the facts with respect to such change or termination shall within ten days thereafter be filed in the office of the tax commission.

Any such person acting individually or as a trustee, firm, company, association or corporation who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.