32-11-204. Criteria for directors, officers, and controlling persons. - Montana Statutes

     32-11-204. Criteria for directors, officers, and controlling persons. (1) A license may be issued only if the department determines that each director, officer, and controlling person of the applicant is:
     (a) of good character and sound financial standing;
     (b) competent to perform the director's, officer's, or controlling person's functions for the applicant; and
     (c) when considered collectively with the other directors, officers, and controlling persons, adequate to manage the business of the applicant as a BIDCO.
     (2) The department may determine that a director, officer, or controlling person of an applicant is not of good character. Bases that the department may use to make that determination include proof that the director, officer, or controlling person or a director or officer of a controlling person has:
     (a) had an administrative sanction imposed under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, 31 U.S.C. 3801 through 3812, for an offense under 15 U.S.C. 645; or
     (b) been convicted of or plead guilty or nolo contendere to a crime involving fraud or dishonesty, including a conviction for an offense under 15 U.S.C. 645.

     History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 411, L. 2007.