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...(A) No person, regardless of the location of that person, its facilities, or its agents, shall receive, directly or indirectly and by any means, money or its equivalent for transmission from a person located in this state, unless that person receiving the money or its equivalent for transmission is a licensee, an authorized delegate of a licensee that is not itself required to be licensed under division (B) of this s...

...(A) Each application for a money transmitter license shall be in the form prescribed by the superintendent of financial institutions and accompanied by an application fee established in section 1315.13 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The superintendent shall approve or deny every application for a license under this section within one hundred eighty days after the date that the superintendent accepts the application as ...

...(A)(1) After accepting an application for a money transmitter license described in section 1315.03 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions shall examine all the facts and circumstances relating to the application. (2) At the applicant's expense, the superintendent may conduct an on-site examination of the applicant's books, records, and operations. If the superintendent requests, the appli...

...Each licensee, at all times, shall meet both of the following requirements: (A) Be a legally established business entity that is capitalized separately and distinctly from every other legal entity and qualified to do business in this state; (B) Have a minimum net worth of not less than five hundred thousand dollars, calculated according to generally accepted accounting principles, but excluding any assets that the ...

...issible investments by a licensee: (1) Cash; (2) Certificates of deposit or other debt obligations of a depository institution, either domestic or foreign; (3) Bills of exchange or time drafts drawn on and accepted by a commercial bank, otherwise known as bankers' acceptances, that are eligible for purchase by member banks of the federal reserve system; (4) Any investment bearing a rating of one of the three high...

...ntendent, of any of the following: (a) Cash; (b) Interest-bearing stocks, bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations of the United States or any agency or instrumentality of the United States, or guaranteed by the United States; (c) Interest bearing stocks, bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations of this state, or of a city, county, town, village, school district, or instrumentality of this state, or gu...

... shareholder's equity, and statement of cash flows; (2) A statement for the calendar quarter of the number of money transmission transactions undertaken by the licensee in this state and in the United States in total, the dollar amount of those transactions, and the number and dollar amount of those transactions currently outstanding; (3) A schedule of the licensee's permissible investments and their market values ...

...(A) Within fifteen business days after the occurrence of any of the events listed below, a licensee shall file a written report with the superintendent describing the event and its expected impact on the licensee's activities in the state: (1) Any material changes in information provided in a licensee's application or any report submitted to the superintendent under sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code; ...

...(A) Each licensee shall make, keep, and preserve with respect to the licensee the following books, accounts, and other records for a period of five years to be open to inspection by the superintendent of financial institutions: (1) A record or records of each money transmission transaction; (2) A general ledger containing all assets, liabilities, capital, income, and expense accounts, posted at least monthly; (3) ...

...(A) Subject to division (F) of this section, no person, alone or acting in concert with other persons, shall, directly or indirectly, acquire control of a licensee without the prior approval of the superintendent of financial institutions. (B) A person or group of persons proposing to acquire control of a licensee shall submit an application for the superintendent's approval in the form prescribed by the superintend...

...(A) After accepting an application to acquire control of a licensee described in section 1315.10 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions shall examine all of the facts and circumstances relating to the application. (B) The superintendent shall approve the application described in division (A) of this section if the superintendent determines both of the following: (1) The competence and e...

...(A) A licensee that chooses to conduct money transmission activities in this state through an authorized delegate shall execute an express written contract with the authorized delegate that, at a minimum, sets forth all of the following: (1) The duties and responsibilities of the authorized delegate regarding money or its equivalent received from persons located in this state for transmission by the licensee; (2) T...

...(A) As often as the superintendent of financial institutions considers necessary, the superintendent, or any deputy or examiner appointed or any contractor engaged by the superintendent for that purpose, thoroughly shall examine the records and affairs of each licensee. The examination shall include a review of all of the following: (1) Compliance with law; (2) Safety and soundness; (3) Other matters that the supe...

...(A) In administering sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code and fulfilling the duties imposed by those sections, including the duty imposed by section 1315.12 of the Revised Code, the superintendent of financial institutions may do any of the following: (1) Participate with financial institution regulatory authorities of this and other states, the United States, and other countries in any of the following: ...

...(A) Information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course of the examination of a licensee or other person conducted pursuant to the authority of sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code is privileged and confidential. No person, including any person to whom the information is disclosed under the authority of this section, shall disclose information leading to, arising from, or obtained in the course...

...Annually, the superintendent shall establish both of the following: (A) The application fee for an application for a license to transmit money under section 1315.03 of the Revised Code; (B) An annual fee described in division (E) of section 1315.04 of the Revised Code for each licensee to carry on the business of a money transmitter. When establishing the annual fee for each licensee, the superintendent may conside...

...The superintendent of financial institutions may adopt rules that, in the superintendent's judgment, are necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code.

...Whenever the approval of the superintendent of financial institutions is required under sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code, or under an order or supervisory action issued or taken under those sections, for a person to serve as an organizer, incorporator, director, executive officer, or controlling person of a licensee, or to otherwise have a substantial interest in or participate in the management ...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may issue and serve a notice of charges and intent to issue a cease and desist order upon a licensee or other person if, in the opinion of the superintendent, either of the following applies to the licensee or other person: (1) The licensee or other person is engaging, has engaged, or, the superintendent has reasonable cause to believe, is about to engage in an unsafe...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may issue and serve a notice of charges and intent to suspend or revoke a licensee's license, if the superintendent finds that any of the following applies: (1) Any fact or condition exists that, if it had existed at the time when the licensee applied for its license, would have been grounds for denying the application. (2) The licensee's net worth becomes inadequate...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may assess civil penalties against a licensee or other person for each day a violation, unsafe or unsound practice, or breach continues as follows: (1) The superintendent may assess a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars per day if the licensee or other person violates any of the following: (a) Any law or rule; (b) Any order issued pursuant to section...

...If the superintendent of financial institutions has reason to believe that a person has violated or is violating section 1315.02 of the Revised Code, the superintendent may petition the court of common pleas of the county where the person's principal place of business or residence is located or, if the person's principal place of business or residence is not in this state, the court of common pleas of Franklin county...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may do both of the following: (1) Summon and compel, by order or subpoena, witnesses to appear before the superintendent, deputy superintendent, examiner, or attorney examiner, and testify under oath regarding the affairs of a licensee or other person; (2) Compel, by order or subpoena, the production of any record, book, paper, document, item, or other thing pertaini...

...(A) The superintendent of financial institutions may serve any notice that the superintendent is required or authorized to give and any subpoena or order that the superintendent is required or authorized to issue pursuant to sections 1315.01 to 1315.18 of the Revised Code, at the sole discretion of the superintendent, by any of the following means: (1) In person by the superintendent or an employee or agent of the d...

...(A)(1) Upon a licensee's or other person's request for an administrative hearing authorized in section 1315.15, 1315.151, or 1315.152 of the Revised Code, the division of financial institutions shall set a reasonable time, date, and place in this state for the hearing and notify the licensee or other person requesting the hearing. Within ninety days after the hearing, the superintendent of financial institution...