Entities that must file notification with the commissioner must send the fee with the filing, and consumer-credit-sales entities must pay a fee based on prior-year sales. Late filing can trigger a $50 late fee and eventually loss of the right to engage in the regulated activities.
§3565. Notification fee A. Each entity required to file notification with the commissioner shall remit with that notification a fee as set forth in Subsection B of this Section. B.(1) The notification fee for each entity engaged in making consumer credit sales shall be as follows: (a) An entity with a preceding calendar year consumer credit sales total of not more than five hundred thousand dollars shall pay seventy-five dollars. (b) An entity with a preceding calendar year consumer credit sales total of more than five hundred thousand but less than one million dollars shall pay one hundred fifty dollars. (c) An entity with a preceding calendar year consumer credit sales total of more than one million but less than two million dollars shall pay three hundred seventy-five dollars. (d) An entity with a preceding calendar year consumer credit sales total of more than two million dollars shall pay seven hundred fifty dollars. (2) REPEALED BY ACTS 1992, NO. 282, §1. (3) REPEALED BY ACTS 1986, NO. 584, §4. (4) Each entity that takes assignments and undertakes direct collection of payments from or enforcement of rights against debtors arising from consumer credit sales or loans shall pay seventy-five dollars. C. If the required notification and notification fee are not received by the commissioner, postmarked by April sixteenth of each year, a late fee of fifty dollars shall be assessed. If the required notification, notification fee, and late fee are not received by the commissioner, postmarked by May thirtieth of that year, the commissioner shall notify the person that if the notification and fees are not received by the commissioner, postmarked by June sixteenth of that year, the person shall forfeit his right to engage in the privileges provided for in this Part. D. A person shall not be authorized to engage in the activities regulated by this Part unless such person has complied with the notification provisions of this Part and the notification filing has not been suspended or revoked by the commissioner as provided for in this Chapter. E. No new license shall be issued upon the filing of a new application by any person against whom any penalty or fee has been imposed unless and until such penalty or fee previously accrued under this Section has been paid. Added by Acts 1972, No. 454, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1973. Amended by Acts 1974, No. 466, §§1, 2; Acts 1985, No. 592, §2, eff. July 13, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 808, §2, eff. July 22, 1985; Acts 1986, No. 584, §4, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 1992, No. 282, §1; Acts 1992, No. 366, §§1 and 2; Acts 1997, No. 284, §1; Acts 2001, No. 620, §1, eff. June 22, 2001.