Section 57-39.2-14 - Permits - Application fee for reissuance1. A person may not engage in or transact business as a retailer within this state unless a permit or permits shall have been issued to that person as hereinafter prescribed. Every person desiring to engage in or conduct business as a retailer within this state shall file with the commissioner an application for a permit or permits. Every application for such a permit shall be made upon a form prescribed by the commissioner and shall set forth the name under which the applicant transacts or intends to transact business, the location of the applicant's place or places of business, and such other information as the commissioner may require. The application shall be signed by the owner if a natural person; in the case of an association, partnership, or limited liability company, by a member or partner thereof; and in the case of a corporation, by an executive officer thereof or some person specifically authorized by the corporation to sign the application, to which shall be attached the written evidence of that person's authority. Any person registering under the agreement adopted under chapter 57-39.4 shall register in this state. Any person who is registered under the agreement is not required to sign the application and may register through an agent. Any person who is registered under such agreement may cancel its registration at any time but is liable for remitting any sales taxes collected before cancellation. Registration under the agreement and collection of tax does not in and of itself create nexus for other taxes or fees imposed by this state.2. Upon determining that each applicant for a sales tax permit is a bona fide retailer, the commissioner shall grant and issue to each applicant a permit for each place of business within the state. A permit is not assignable and shall be valid only for the person in whose name it is issued and for the transaction of business at the place designated therein. It shall at all times be conspicuously displayed at the place for which issued. Any transient merchant who is in the business of soliciting or making sales at retail to consumers shall, before soliciting such a sale from a consumer, exhibit to the consumer or prospective consumer the retail sales tax permit required by this section; for the purposes of this sentence the term "transient merchant" shall include any person, individual, copartnership, corporation, or limited liability company, either as principal or agent, who solicits, engages in, does, or transacts any temporary or transient business in this state, either in one locality, or in traveling from place to place in this state, selling goods, wares, and merchandise, who does not intend to become and does not become a permanent merchant of such place, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hires, leases, occupies, or uses, a building, structure, lot, tract, railroad car, motor vehicle, or display case or sample case of any kind for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise.3. Permits issued under the provisions of this section shall be valid and effective until revoked by the commissioner.4. Whenever the holder of a permit fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any rules or regulations prescribed by the commissioner and adopted under this chapter, or whenever the holder of a permit shall file returns showing no tax due for four consecutive quarters, the commissioner, upon hearing after giving ten days' notice of the time and place of the hearing to show cause why the holder's permit should not be revoked, may revoke the permit. The commissioner also shall have the power to restore licenses after such revocation.5. Whenever the holder of a permit has had such a permit revoked for failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter or any rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioner and adopted under this chapter, the commissioner shall charge a fee of fifty dollars for the issuance or reissuance of such permit. However, if a permit was revoked for filing returns showing no tax due for four consecutive quarters, the commissioner shall charge only a fee of five dollars for the issuance or reissuance of such permit.6. All permits in effect at the time this chapter takes effect are hereby continued and shall remain in full force and effect unless revoked as herein provided. However, the commissioner may issue a new form of permit to replace, at no charge to the permitholders, all permits previously granted and issued that have not been revoked or surrendered.7. Whenever the holder of a permit is convicted of violating section 12.1-23-16, the commissioner shall revoke the permit and the holder is not eligible to receive another permit for a period of ten years from the date of conviction. Any person convicted of violating section 12.1-23-16 who is not a holder of a permit at the time of conviction is not eligible to receive a permit for a period of ten years from the date of conviction.Amended by S.L. 2013 , ch. 108( SB 2126 ), § 3, eff. 8/1/2013.