(A) Any person, except churches and their directly connected agencies, desiring to conduct a charitable solicitation, or on whose behalf a charitable solicitation is to be conducted, shall file at least 60 days prior to the commencement thereof with the Commission a notice of intent containing the following information:
(1) The proposed use of the net proceeds of the solicitation under the general headings required for reports under division (A)(5) below;
(2) The manner in which the solicitation shall be conducted and an estimate of the cost of solicitation and the cost of promotion, if any, and of the net proceeds expected for the charitable purpose;
(3) If a professional promoter or any professional solicitor are to be employed, a copy of the contract of each;
(4) A certified copy of the resolution or other action authorizing the solicitation; and
(5) A report of all the receipts of the person during his or her preceding fiscal year or all of his or her receipts from solicitations during the most recent year in which a charitable solicitation was conducted by or on behalf of such charitable person. Such report shall show the gross amount raised by solicitation during the period covered, what portion thereof, if any, is attributable to promotional activities, the cost of promotion, the cost of solicitation and the amounts, if any, paid to each professional promoter and professional solicitor. The report shall also show what portion of the proceeds, if any, was allocated for local use and what portion, if any was allocated to a national organization.
(B) The proportions allocated, respectively, to local use or to a national organization shall each be broken down in the report under the following categories insofar as they are applicable or among such other categories as may be approved by the Commission:
(1) Agency administration;
(2) Information and public education activities;
(3) Social services;
(4) Hospital care;
(5) Educational institutions;
(6) Research;
(7) Other civic or philanthropic purposes; and
(8) Capital improvements.
(C) The Commission may, in its discretion, waive the filing of such statements as are duplicated substantially by reports already on file pursuant to this section or to any other section of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 43.14)