Connecticut General Statutes 36a-540 – License. Change in control person. Automatic suspension of license. Surrender of license
(a) Each license shall specify the location at which the business is to be conducted. Such license shall not be transferable or assignable. Any change in any control person of the licensee, except a change of a director, general partner or executive officer that is not the result of an acquisition or change of control of the licensee, shall be the subject of an advance change notice filed on the system not later than thirty days prior to the effective date of such change and no such change shall occur without the commissioner‘s approval. For purposes of this section, “change of control” means any change causing the majority ownership, voting rights or control of a licensee to be held by a different control person or group of control persons.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 36a-540
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Commissioner: means the Banking Commissioner and, with respect to any function of the commissioner, includes any person authorized or designated by the commissioner to carry out that function. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Company: means any corporation, joint stock company, trust, association, partnership, limited partnership, unincorporated organization, limited liability company or similar organization, but does not include (A) any corporation the majority of the shares of which are owned by the United States or by any state, or (B) any trust which by its terms shall terminate within twenty-five years or not later than twenty-one years and ten months after the death of beneficiaries living on the effective date of the trust. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Director: means a member of the governing board of a financial institution. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Executive officer: means every officer of a Connecticut bank who participates or has authority to participate, otherwise than in the capacity of a director, in major policy-making functions of such bank, regardless of whether such officer has an official title or whether that title contains a designation of assistant and regardless of whether such officer is serving without salary or other compensation. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Licensee: means any person who is licensed or required to be licensed pursuant to the applicable provisions of this title. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- Person: means an individual, company, including a company described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subdivision (11) of this section, or any other legal entity, including a federal, state or municipal government or agency or any political subdivision thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
- System: means the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry, NMLS, NMLSR or such other name or acronym as may be assigned to the multistate system developed by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators and owned and operated by the State Regulatory Registry, LLC, or any successor or affiliated entity, for the licensing and registration of persons in the mortgage and other financial services industries. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
(b) No licensee may use any name other than its legal name or a fictitious name approved by the commissioner, provided such licensee may not use its legal name if the commissioner disapproves use of such name. No licensee shall use any name or address other than the name and address specified on the license issued by the commissioner. A licensee may change the name of the licensee or address of the office specified on the most recent filing with the system if at least thirty calendar days prior to such change, the licensee files such change with the system and the commissioner does not disapprove such change, in writing, or request further information from the licensee within such thirty-day period.
(c) The commissioner may automatically suspend any license for a violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this section. After the license has been automatically suspended pursuant to this subsection, the commissioner shall (1) give the licensee notice of the automatic suspension, pending proceedings for revocation of or refusal to renew the license pursuant to § 36a-543 and an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with § 36a-51, and (2) require the licensee to take or refrain from taking action as the commissioner deems necessary to effectuate the purpose of this section.
(d) Not later than fifteen days after the date a licensee ceases to engage in this state in the business of a sales finance company for any reason, including a business decision to terminate operations in this state, license revocation, bankruptcy or voluntary dissolution, such licensee shall surrender to the commissioner, in accordance with subsection (c) of § 36a-51, its license for each location in which such licensee has ceased to engage in such business.