Notification filing requirements of issuers of any covered security and payment of fees. All issuers of any covered security (except any security listed or authorized for listing on the New York Stock Exchange or American Stock Exchange or listed on the National Market System of the Nasdaq Stock Market (or any successor to such entities), or listed or authorized for listing on a national securities exchange (or tier or segment thereof) that has listing standards that the federal Securities and Exchange Commission by rule (on its own initiative or on the basis of petition) has determined are substantially similar to the listing standards applicable to any security described in this Section, or is a security of the same issuer that is equal in seniority or that is a senior security described in this Section) shall annually file a notification with the Secretary of State in such form and manner as prescribed by rule or order and pay the notification filing fee established under Section 11a of this Act which shall not be returnable in any event.
     Anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, until October 10, 1999 or other date as may be legally permissible, the refusal to file the notification or pay the fee by an issuer of any covered security (except issuers of securities which are being sold under Regulation D, Section 506 of the Federal 1933 Act) after written notice by the Secretary of State (which may be by United States Postal Service, facsimile or electronic transmission or other similar means), shall require the issuer or his, her, or its designee to file an application for registration with the Secretary of State under subsection A or B of Section 5, 6, or 7 of this Act and pay the registration fee established under Section 11a of this Act which shall not be returnable in any event. The failure to file any such notification shall constitute a violation of subsection D of Section 12 of this Act, subject to the penalties enumerated in Section 14 of this Act. The civil remedies provided for in subsection A of Section 13 of this Act and the civil remedies of rescission and appointment of a receiver, conservator, ancillary receiver, or ancillary conservator provided for in subsection F of Section 13 of this Act shall not be available against any person by reason of the failure to file any such notification or to pay the notification fee.