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Rule 15Ba2-2 -- Application for Registration of Non-bank Municipal Securities Dealers Whose Business is Exclusively Intrastate

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1. An application for registration, pursuant to Section 15B(a) of the Act, of a municipal securities dealer who is not subject to the requirements of Rule 15Ba2-1, that is filed on or after January 25, 1993, shall be filed with the Central Registration Depository (operated by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.) on Form BD in accordance with the instructions contained therein.
   
   
2. Every applicant shall file with its application for registration a statement that such applicant is filing for registration as an intrastate dealer in accordance with the requirements of this section. Such statement shall be deemed a part of the application for registration.
   
   
3. If the information contained in any application for registration filed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section, or in any amendment to such application, is or becomes inaccurate for any reason, the dealer shall promptly file with the Central Registration Depository an amendment on Form BD correcting such information.
   
   
4. Every application or amendment filed with the Central Registration Depository pursuant to this section shall constitute a "report" filed with the Commission within the meaning of Sections 15(b), 15B(c), 17(a), 18(a), 32(a) and other applicable provisions of the Act.
   
   
5. Temporary re-filing instructions.
   
   
   1. Except as provided in paragraph (e)(3) of this section, every dealer that is registered in accordance with this section shall re-file with the Central Registration Depository, at the time the dealer submits its first amendment on or after August 16, 1999 but, in any event, no later than December 15, 1999, the following information from its current Form BD:
      
      
      1. Question 8 (if answered "Yes," the broker-dealer must also complete relevant items in Section IV of Schedule D);
         
         
      2. Question 9 (if answered "Yes," the broker-dealer must also complete relevant items in Section IV of Schedule D);
         
         
      3. Question 10(a) (if answered "Yes," the broker-dealer must also complete relevant items in Section V of Schedule D);
         
         
      4. Question 10(b) (if answered "Yes," the broker-dealer must also complete relevant items in Section VI of Schedule D);
         
         
      5. Question 11 (if any item in Question 11 is answered "Yes," the broker- dealer must also complete the relevant DRP(s)); and
         
         
      6. Schedules A and B.
         
         
   2. Every dealer that is registered in accordance with this section, at the time it re-files the information required by paragraph (e)(1) of this section, shall review, and amend as necessary, the information in Form BD that was transferred by the National Association of Securities Dealers to the Central Registration Depository prior to August 16, 1999.
      
      
   3. Every dealer that is registered in accordance with this section but that has not completed the re-filing requirements provided in paragraphs (c)(1) and (c)(2) of this section, during the period from August 16, 1999 to December 15, 1999, shall submit in paper format to the Central Registration Depository all Schedule E amendments to Form BD. A Schedule E filed pursuant to this paragraph (e)(3) shall not be deemed an "amendment" for purposes of paragraphs (e)(1) and (e)(2) of this section.
      
      
   4. The Commission, by order, may exempt any broker or dealer from the filing requirements provided in Form BD and paragraphs (e)(1), (e)(2), and (e)(3) of this section under conditions that differ from the filing instructions contained in Form BD and paragraphs (e)(1), (e)(2), and (e)(3) of this section.
      
      

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