1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an applicant for licensing as a broker-dealer, sales representative, investment adviser, representative of an investment adviser or transfer agent must file with the Administrator an application for licensing and a consent to service of process pursuant to NRS 90.770 and pay the fee required by NRS 90.360. The application for licensing must contain the information the Administrator determines by regulation to be necessary and appropriate to facilitate the administration of this chapter.
2. The requirements of subsection 1 are satisfied by an applicant who has filed and maintains a completed and current registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission or a self-regulatory organization if the information contained in that registration is readily available to the Administrator through the Investment Adviser Registration Depository, the Central Registration Depository or another depository for registrations that has been approved by the Administrator by regulation or order. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, such an applicant must also file a notice with the Administrator in the form and content determined by the Administrator by regulation and a consent to service of process pursuant to NRS 90.770 and the fee required by NRS 90.360. The Administrator, by order, may require the submission of additional information by an applicant.
3. An applicant for licensing as a transfer agent is not required to pay the fee required by NRS 90.360.
4. As used in this section:
(a) “Central Registration Depository” means the Central Registration Depository of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or its successor, and the North American Securities Administrators Association or its successor.
(b) “Investment Adviser Registration Depository” means the Investment Adviser Registration Depository of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or its successor, and the North American Securities Administrators Association or its successor.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 2155; A 1989, 152; 1995, 1443; 1997, 2036; 1999, 520, 540; 2001, 1154; 2003, 325; 2007, 1337, 1338; 2009, 2557, effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings)