La. Admin. Code tit. 19 § V-502
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
Section V-502 - Commercial API ServiceA. 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.La. Admin. Code tit. 19, § V-502
Promulgated by the Department of State, Business Services Division, LR 461233 (9/1/2020).AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 49:222 and R.S. 36:742.