2021 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 7 - Corporations, Associations and Partnerships
Chapter 7-11 - Rhode Island Uniform Securities Act
Section 7-11-208 - Licensing.
(a) Unless a proceeding under § 7-11-212 is instituted or the applicant is notified that the application is incomplete, the license of a broker-dealer, sales representative, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative becomes effective thirty (30) days after the later of the date an application for licensing is filed and is completed or the date an amendment to an application is filed and is complete. In either case the license becomes effective only if all examination requirements imposed under § 7-11-207 are satisfied. An application is complete when the applicant has furnished information responsive to each applicable item of the application. The director may by order authorize an earlier effective date of licensing.
(b) The license of a broker-dealer, sales representative, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative is effective until terminated by expiration, revocation, or withdrawal.
(c) The license of a sales representative is only effective with respect to transactions effected on behalf of the broker-dealer or issuer for whom the sales representative is licensed.
(d) No person may act at any one time as a sales representative for more than one broker-dealer or for more than one issuer, unless the broker-dealers or issuers for whom the sales representative acts are affiliated by direct or indirect common control or the director authorizes multiple licenses by rule or order.
(e) If a person licensed as a sales representative terminates association with a broker-dealer or issuer, or terminates activities that make the person a sales representative, the sales representative and the broker-dealer or issuer on whose behalf the sales representative was acting shall promptly notify the director.
(f) The license of an investment adviser representative is only effective as to transactions effected as an associated person of the investment adviser or federal covered adviser as to whom the investment adviser representative is licensed.
(g) No person may act at any one time as an investment adviser or federal covered adviser representative for more than one investment adviser, unless the investment advisers or federal covered advisers for whom the investment adviser representative acts are affiliated by direct or indirect common control or the director authorizes multiple licenses by rule or order.
(h) If a person licensed as an investment adviser representative terminates association with an investment adviser or terminates activities that make the person an investment adviser representative, the investment adviser representative and the investment adviser on whose behalf the investment adviser representative was acting shall promptly notify the director.
(i) The director may authorize by rule one or more special classifications of licenses as a broker-dealer, sales representative, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative to be issued to applicants subject to limitations and conditions on the nature of the activities that may be conducted by persons so licensed.
History of Section.
P.L. 1990, ch. 460, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 69, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 354, § 20.
