La. Admin. Code tit. 19, § V-502 - Commercial API Service
A. The
Department of State has developed and now offers an optional paid Commercial
API Subscription service which will allow customers, such as banks, service
companies and agencies doing enforcement activities, to search for business
entity filings using their back-end systems. This will allow the customer to
integrate validation of business information into their processes, such as a
bank creating a business checking account without having to open a browser,
navigate to the secretary of state website, type in the business name, and
click search. They could even populate data from the business information that
the secretary of state has on file into fields in their application. The
service will also allow customers to validate certificates issued by the Office
of the Secretary of State to confirm their authenticity. The secretary of state
currently does not know which customers are using the website. When customers
sign up for the service, the secretary of state will have the contact
information to provide better and more reliable service to them, and if there
are any issues the secretary of state will know which customers to inform. The
secretary of state has had to block legitimate customers from accessing the
secretary of state website to try and prevent performance issues caused by
people trying to harvest data from the site or just wreak havoc. The API would
ensure legitimate business customers have access to the business
data.
B. Any person who has a
department single sign-on account with a verified email address can enroll in
the optional Commercial API. The enrollment application will be completed
online on the secretary of state website.
C. The service has a one-year non-refundable
renewable subscription fee of $500. The subscription renewal form will be found
on the secretary of state website. Enrollments are non-transferrable.
Notes
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 49:222 and R.S. 36:742.
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