Section 85.701 - Failure to Timely File a Pawnshop Employee Application(a) Applicability. This section applies only to pawnbrokers that participate in the pawnshop employee license program and employees of these pawnbrokers.(b) Reasonable ground for denial. Failure to file a pawnshop employee application with the OCCC within 75 calendar days of the first day the employee participated or trained in a transaction subject to Texas Finance Code, § RSA 371.101(c), will be a reasonable ground for denial of the license. Should the OCCC find that no other ground is present on which to base a denial of the license, the OCCC may grant the license and take an enforcement action as provided in subsection (c) of this section.(c) Enforcement actions. Failure to file a pawnshop employee application with the OCCC within 75 calendar days of the first day the employee participated or trained in a transaction subject to Texas Finance Code, § RSA 371.101(c), may subject both the pawnbroker and the pawnshop employee to one or more of the following enforcement actions under Texas Finance Code, Chapters 14 and 371: (2) an administrative penalty;(d) Pattern of violations. A pattern of violations may result in an additional enforcement action or denial.7 Tex. Admin. Code § 85.701
The provisions of this §85.701 adopted to be effective October 1, 2000, 25 TexReg 9215; amended to be effective June 7, 2010, 35 TexReg 3471; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 52, December 28, 2018, TexReg 8588, eff. 2/1/2019; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 35, August 30, 2019, TexReg 4722, eff. 10/1/2019