Sec. 9. 9 MRSA §5008, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2003, c. 541, §12, is further amended to read:

1. Registration. A person or entity may not act as a professional solicitor, a professional fund-raising counsel or a commercial co-venturer before that person or entity has registered with the office. Applications for registration or reregistration must be in writing, under oath, in the form prescribed by the office and accompanied by an application fee and a registration fee. The application fee is nonrefundable. The applicant, except for applicants that are registering as professional fund-raising counsel, shall, at the time of making application for registration or reregistration, file with and have approved by the office a bond, in which the applicant must be the principal obligor and the State the obligee, in the sum of $25,000, with one or more responsible sureties whose liability in the aggregate as such sureties at least equals that sum. The bond runs to any person or entity who may have a cause of action against the principal obligor of the bond for any malfeasance or misfeasance in the conduct of charitable solicitation in this State. Registration is for a period of one year.

Sec. 10. 9 MRSA §5008, sub-§1-A, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 386, Pt. A, §16, is amended to read:

C. The complete application packet must include:

(1) All forms required in this section;

(2) A Except for professional fund-raising counsel, a bond approved by the department in the sum of $25,000 with one or more responsible sureties whose liability in the aggregate as such sureties at least equals that sum. The bond must expire on the stated date of expiration and be kept on file in the office for 3 years; and

(3) A $200 renewal of registration fee.

Sec. 11. 9 MRSA §5008, sub-§1-A, ¶G is enacted to read:

G.__A professional fund-raising counsel who is applying for a renewal of registration must submit:

(1)__A renewal of registration fee; and