How the ethics commission handles your registration certificate

(a) Within 10 working days after receipt of a registration form completed as provided in § 3-13.3 (b) and certified as provided in § 3-13.4 , the ethics commission shall either issue a certificate of registration to the registrant or notify the registrant that the form lacks relevant information or is improperly filled out, and no certificate of registration will be issued unless the omission is rectified or the form properly filled out. (b) Within 10 working days after receipt of the annual report form prescribed by § 3-13.3 (c), the ethics commission shall renew the registrant’s certificate of registration or shall, upon notice to the registrant, suspend the certificate until such time as the registrant’s annual report form has been brought into compliance with the requirements of this article. (c) The initial certificate and any renewed certificate shall remain in force until 10 working days following the next succeeding annual reporting date as set forth in § 3-13.3 (c), except that a certificate may be suspended or revoked as set forth in subsections (d) and (e). (d) If, either prior or after the issuance or renewal of a certificate of registration, the ethics commission obtains information leading it to believe that the registration or report form under consideration or on which issuance or renewal of a certificate has been based contains a material misstatement of fact, the ethics commission, after notice and a hearing, may suspend or revoke, for a period of up to one year following hearing on the misstatement, any effective certificate and may decline to issue or renew a certificate for a period of up to one year following the hearing. In exercising its discretion with respect to suspending or revoking or declining to issue or renew certificates of registration, the ethics commission shall grant a hearing to the aggrieved registrant at which it shall consider the nature of the material misstatement of fact, whether it was made intentionally or inadvertently, and any other circumstances surrounding the making of the material misstatement of fact. (e) If, after filing of the registration form and issuance of the certificate, the ethics commission obtains information leading it to believe that a change in the information set forth in the registration form occurred and was not reflected in a supplementary registration form filed as required by § 3-13.3 (d), the ethics commission may, upon notice to the registrant, suspend the certificate of registration until a supplementary report containing the appropriate information is on file.