Rhode Island General Laws 5-53.1-10. Professional solicitor
No person shall act as a professional solicitor in the employ of a professional fundraiser required to register pursuant to § 5-53.1-8 before he or she has registered with the director or after the expiration or cancellation of the registration. Applications for registration and re-registration shall be in writing, under oath, in the form prescribed by the director. Registration or re-registration, when effected, shall be for a period of one year, or a part thereof, expiring on the thirtieth (30th) day of June. An application for re-registration shall be filed thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the registration. Applications for registration and re-registration, when filed with the director, shall become public records in the office of the director.
History of Section.
P.L. 1999, ch. 152, § 2.
Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 5-53.1-10
- Director: means the director of the department. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-53.1-1
- in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
- Person: means and shall include any individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation, trust, limited-liability company, and combination of the foregoing, however formed, as well as any and all other entities, however formed. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-53.1-1
- Professional fundraiser: means any person who directly or indirectly for compensation or other consideration plans, manages, conducts, carries on, or assists in connection with a solicitation for charitable purposes or individually solicits or who or that employs or otherwise engages on any basis another person to solicit for or on behalf of any charitable organization, or who or that engages in the business of, or holds himself, herself, or itself out to persons as independently engaged in the business of soliciting for the charitable purpose. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-53.1-1
- Professional solicitor: means any person who is employed or retained for compensation by a professional fundraiser to solicit contributions for charitable purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-53.1-1