2007 Minnesota Statutes

80A.05 LICENSING PROCEDURE.
    Subdivision 1. Broker-dealer, agent, or investment adviser. A broker-dealer, agent, or
investment adviser may obtain an initial or renewal license by filing with the commissioner or a
designee an application together with a consent to service of process pursuant to section 80A.27,
subdivision 7 . The application shall be on a form prescribed by the commissioner and shall contain
whatever information the commissioner requires concerning such matters as the applicant's
form and place of organization, proposed method of doing business and financial condition,
the qualifications and experience of the applicant, including, in the case of a broker-dealer or
investment adviser, the qualifications and experience of any partner, officer, director or controlling
person, any injunction or administrative order or conviction of a misdemeanor involving securities
and any conviction of a felony. The commissioner may by order, with respect to any particular
application, require the submission of information concerning any other matters which the
commissioner determines are relevant to the application. The commissioner may by rule or order
require an applicant for an initial license to publish an announcement of the application in one or
more specified newspapers published in this state.
If no denial order is in effect, no proceeding is pending under section 80A.07, and all of
the requirements of this subdivision and subdivision 3 have been complied with, the licensing
becomes effective 30 days after an application is filed. The commissioner may by rule or order
specify an earlier effective date, and may by order defer the effective date until 30 days after the
filing of any amendment.
An application that is incomplete will be considered withdrawn if no activity occurs with
respect to the application for a period of 120 days. Notwithstanding section 80A.28, subdivision
1 , paragraph (c), no part of the filing fee shall be returned if a registration statement is withdrawn
according to this subdivision.
    Subd. 1a. Federal covered advisers. Except with respect to federal covered advisers whose
only clients are those described in section 80A.04, subdivision 3, clause (2), a federal covered
adviser shall file with the commissioner, before acting as a federal covered adviser in this state, all
documents required by the commissioner that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, until October 10, 1999, the
commissioner may require the registration of any federal covered investment adviser who has
failed to promptly pay the fees required by section 80A.28 after being notified in writing by the
commissioner of the nonpayment or underpayment of such fees. A person shall be considered
to have promptly paid such fees if the fees are remitted to the commissioner within 15 days
following the receipt of written notification from the commissioner.
    Subd. 2. Successors. A licensed broker-dealer or investment adviser may file an application
for licensing of a successor, whether or not the successor is then in existence, for the unexpired
portion of the license. There shall be no filing fee.
    Subd. 3. Examination and training; rulemaking. The commissioner may by rule prescribe
standards of qualification with respect to training, experience and knowledge of the securities
business and provide for examinations, which may be written or oral or both, to be taken by any
class of or all applicants, as well as persons who represent or will represent an investment adviser,
and the commissioner may by order require an examination of a licensed broker-dealer, agent or
investment adviser for due cause.
    Subd. 4. Financial requirements; rulemaking. The commissioner may by rule require a
minimum capital for broker-dealers, subject to the limitations of section 15 of the Securities Act
of 1934, and establish minimum financial requirements for investment advisers, subject to the
limitations of section 222 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 which may include different
requirements for those investment advisers who maintain custody of clients' funds or securities
or who have discretionary authority over the funds or securities and those investment advisers
who do not.
    Subd. 5. Surety bonds; rulemaking. The commissioner may by rule require licensed
broker-dealers, agents and investment advisers who have custody of or discretionary authority
over client funds or securities, to post surety bonds in amounts as the commissioner may prescribe
subject to the limitations of section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for broker-dealers
and section 222 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 for investment advisers and may by
rule or order determine their conditions. Any appropriate deposit of cash or securities shall be
accepted in lieu of any bond so required. No bond may be required of any broker-dealer whose
net capital, which may be defined by rule, exceeds the amounts required by the commissioner.
Every bond shall provide for suit thereon by any person who has a cause of action under section
80A.23 and, if the commissioner by rule or order requires, by any person who has a cause of
action not arising under sections 80A.01 to 80A.31. Every bond shall provide that no suit may be
maintained to enforce any liability on the bond unless brought within three years after the sale
or other act upon which it is based.
    Subd. 6. General authority of commissioner. The commissioner may by rule or order
impose other conditions in connection with the issuance of licenses under this chapter as the
commissioner deems appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors.
History: 1973 c 451 s 5; 1981 c 140 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1996 c 439 art 2 s 2; 1997 c 222 s 13-15
NOTE: This section is repealed by Laws 2006, chapter 196, article 1, section 51, effective
August 1, 2007. Laws 2006, chapter 196, article 1, section 52.