As used in this act:

1. 1. "Person" means any individual, organization, group, association, partnership or corporation;
2. 2. "Charitable organization" means any philanthropic, patriotic, eleemosynary, educational, social, civic, recreational, religious or any other person performing or purporting to perform acts beneficial to the public;
3. 3. "Contribution" means the promise or grant of any money or property of any kind or value;
4. 4. "Professional fund raiser" means any person who for compensation or other consideration plans, conducts or manages in this state the solicitation of contributions for or on behalf of any charitable organization or any other person, or who engages in the business of or holds himself out to persons in this state as independently engaged in the business of soliciting contributions for such purpose;
5. 5. "Professional solicitor" means any person who is employed or retained for compensation or other consideration of any kind whatsoever by a professional fund raiser to solicit contributions in this state for or on behalf of any charitable organization or any other person; and

6. 6. "Professional fund raising counsel" means an entity that, alone or through its employees and agents, provides services for compensation to a charitable organization in the solicitation of contributions, including, but not limited to, planning, managing, or preparing materials to be used in conjunction with any solicitation; provided, that the entity does not:

   1. a. directly or indirectly solicit contributions alone or through its employees and agents, or
   2. b. receive, have access to, or control any contribution generated by the solicitation activity.

Laws 1959, HB 632, c. 14, § 2, emerg. eff. May 8, 1959; Amended by Laws 1978, HB 1478, c. 244, § 1, eff. July 1, 1978; Amended by Laws 1983, SB 173, c. 100, § 10, emerg. eff. May 9, 1983; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 684, c. 421, § 1, eff. November 1, 1999 (superseded document available).