Section 53. Registration statements

After September first, nineteen hundred
  sixty,  no  person,  corporation, partnership, firm or association shall
  carry on the business of collateral loan broker within the state of  New
  York  unless  and until such collateral loan broker shall have caused to
  be filed in the office of the state comptroller upon forms prescribed by
  him a statement, duly verified as hereinafter provided, to be  known  as
  "Collateral Loan Broker's Registration Statement" containing:
    a. The name of such collateral loan broker.
    b. The address of the principal office of such collateral loan broker,
  if any, wherever situated, and the address or addresses of the principal
  office of such collateral loan broker within this state, if any.
    c.  If  such  collateral  loan  broker  be  a  partnership, the names,
  residences and business addresses of the partners, including special  or
  limited   partners,  and  of  all  other  individuals  participating  as
  principals in the profits of such business, specifying as  to  each  the
  nature of his relation to such business.
    d.  If  such  collateral  loan  broker  be other than an individual or
  partnership, the name of the state where incorporated or  organized  and
  the  names, residences and business addresses of its principal officers,
  wherever located, and all its officers in this state, specifying  as  to
  each the nature of his relation to such business.
    e.  The  date  on which such collateral loan broker acquired a license
  and the name and location of the local governing body under  whose  hand
  and  seal or authority said license was obtained under the provisions of
  this article.
    f. In the event that after any collateral loan broker shall have filed
  a statement as above, any change shall take place in  the  personnel  of
  the  partners, principals, officers or in the location of the principal,
  such collateral loan broker  shall  file  a  statement  with  the  state
  comptroller  to  be  known  as  a "Collateral Loan Broker's Supplemental
  Registration Statement", duly verified as hereinafter provided,  setting
  forth in full the details thereof.
    g. Each such collateral loan broker statement and each collateral loan
  broker  supplemental  statement shall be verified by the collateral loan
  broker, or if such collateral loan broker be a partnership, by a general
  partner thereof, or, if such collateral loan broker  be  other  than  an
  individual  or  partnership,  by  a principal officer thereof, and shall
  state that the facts therein stated  are  true  to  his  own  knowledge;
  providing  that  in  case  of a statement or supplemental statement by a
  collateral loan broker other than an individual the person verifying the
  same may state on information and belief the facts therein included with
  respect  to  any  other  individual,  if  such  collateral  loan  broker
  statement  or  supplemental  statement  shall  have  attached thereto an
  affidavit of such other individual stating that all facts  contained  in
  said  collateral  loan  broker  statement or supplemental statement with
  respect to him are true.
    h. The state comptroller may in his discretion adopt forms for the use
  of collateral loan brokers for filing any statement with his  department
  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of this section and furnish such forms to
  collateral loan brokers  without  charge  or  fee  therefor.  The  state
  comptroller shall collect the following fees:
    For  filing  each  "Collateral  Loan Broker's Registration Statement",
  five dollars; for filing each  "Collateral  Loan  Broker's  Supplemental
  Statement", two dollars and fifty cents.
    The  fees herein enumerated shall be payable at the time of filing and
  no filing shall be deemed effective within the meaning of  this  section
  until such fees have been paid.

    i. Whenever a collateral loan broker shall have filed any registration
  statement  or  supplemental  registration statement required to be filed
  under the provisions of this section or  shall  have  prepared  in  such
  registration  statement  or supplemental registration statement and have
  forwarded  the  same together with the fees required by subdivision h of
  this section, postage prepaid and properly addressed, to the  office  of
  the  state comptroller in Albany, such collateral loan broker, as to the
  filing of  such  collateral  loan  broker's  statement  or  supplemental
  registration  statement  shall  be  deemed  to  have  complied  with the
  requirements of this section.