3.__Contracting with unregistered entities prohibited.__A charitable organization may not contract with an unregistered professional solicitor, professional fund-raising counsel or commercial co-venturer.__A violation of this subsection may result in disciplinary action as provided under Title 10, section 8003, subsection 5.

Sec. 11. 9 MRSA §5007, first ¶, as amended by PL 1981, c. 456, Pt. A, §31, is further amended to read:

Any A charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, professional solicitor, professional fund-raising counsel or commercial co-venturer having its principal place of business without the State, or organized under and by virtue of the laws of a foreign state, which that solicits contributions from the people in this State by whatever means, including, but not limited to, personal contact, telephone, mail, newspaper advertisement, television or radio, or acts on behalf of a charitable organization in this State, shall be is deemed to have irrevocably appointed the commissioner as its agent upon whom may be served any summons, subpoena, subpoena duces tecum or other process directed to such a charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, professional solicitor, professional fund- raising counsel or commercial co-venturer or to any partner, principal, officer or director thereof, in any action or proceeding brought by the Attorney General under this chapter.

Sec. 12. 9 MRSA §5008, as amended by PL 2001, c. 323, §§6 and 7, is further amended to read:

§5008. Registration renewal, records and reporting by professional

solicitors, professional fund-raising counsel and

commercial co-venturers

1. Registration. A person or entity may not act as a professional fund-raising counsel, 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 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