Sec. 21a-190e. Fund-raising counsel. Filing of contracts. Registration of fund-raising counsel. Fees. Bond. Accounting for funds received.
Sec. 21a-190e. Fund-raising counsel. Filing of contracts. Registration of fund-raising counsel. Fees. Bond. Accounting for funds received. (a) Each contract between a charitable organization and a fund-raising counsel shall be in writing and shall
be filed by the fund-raising counsel with the department at least fifteen days prior to
the performance by the fund-raising counsel of any material services pursuant to such
contract. The contract shall contain such information as will enable the department
to identify the services the fund-raising counsel is to provide and the manner of his
compensation.
(b) A fund-raising counsel who at any time has custody or control of contributions
from a solicitation shall register with the department. Applications for registration or
renewal of a registration as a fund-raising counsel shall be in writing, under oath, in the
form prescribed by the department and shall be accompanied by a fee in the amount of
one hundred twenty dollars. Each application shall contain such information as the
department shall require. Each registration shall be valid for one year and may be renewed for additional one-year periods. An applicant for registration or for a renewal of
registration as a fund-raising counsel shall, at the time of making such application, file
with and have approved by the department a bond, in which the applicant shall be the
principal obligor in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with one or more responsible
sureties whose liability in the aggregate as such sureties shall be no less than such sum.
The fund-raising counsel shall maintain the bond in effect as long as the registration is
in effect. The bond shall run to the state and to any person who may have a cause of
action against the principal obligor of the bond for any liabilities resulting from the
obligor's conduct of any activities subject to sections 21a-190a to 21a-190l, inclusive,
or arising out of a violation of said sections or any regulation adopted pursuant to said
sections. Any such fund-raising counsel shall account to the charitable organization
with which he has contracted for all income received and expenses paid no later than
ninety days after a solicitation campaign has been completed, and in the case of a solicitation campaign lasting more than one year, on the anniversary of the commencement of
such campaign. Such accounting shall be in writing, shall be retained by the charitable
organization for three years and shall be available to the department upon request.
(P.A. 86-369, S. 5; P.A. 89-251, S. 153, 203; P.A. 94-36, S. 29, 42.)
History: P.A. 89-251 increased the registration fee from $100 to $120; P.A. 94-36 amended Subsec. (b) to eliminate
the language requiring "application and payment of fee" from the registration renewal process, effective January 1, 1995.
See Sec. 21a-10(b) re staggered schedule for registration renewals.