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New York City Administrative Code Section 3-216 - Periodic Reports.Legal Research Home > New York Lawyer > NYC Administrative Code > New York City Administrative Code Section 3-216 - Periodic Reports.
§ 3-216. Periodic reports. (a) (1) Any lobbyist required to file a
statement of registration pursuant to section 3-213 of this subchapter
who in any lobbying year expends, receives or incurs combined reportable
compensation and expenses in an amount in excess of two thousand
dollars, as provided in paragraph five of subdivision (b) of this
section, for the purpose of lobbying, shall file with the city clerk a
first periodic written report, on forms supplied by the city clerk, by
the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the reporting period on
which the cumulative total for such lobbying year equalled such sum.
Such reporting periods shall be the period from January first to March
thirty-first, April first to May thirty-first, June first to September
thirtieth, and October first to December thirty-first.
(2) Any lobbyist making a report pursuant to paragraph one of this
subdivision shall thereafter file with the city clerk, on forms supplied
by the city clerk, a periodic report for each reporting period that such
person expends, receives or incurs combined reportable compensation and
expenses in an amount in excess of five hundred dollars for the purposes
of lobbying during such reporting period. Such report shall be filed not
later than the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of such reporting
period and shall include the amounts so expended, received or incurred
during such reporting period and the cumulative total during the
lobbying year.
(b) Such periodic report shall contain:
(1) the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist;
(2) the name, address and telephone number of the client by whom or on
whose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated;
(3) a description of the general subject or subjects on which the
lobbyist has lobbied;
(4) the person or agency before which the lobbyist has lobbied;
(5) (i) the compensation paid or owed to the lobbyist, and any
expenses expended, received or incurred by the lobbyist for the purpose
of lobbying.
(ii) expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i) of
this paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five dollars
or less and if more than seventy-five dollars such expenses shall be
detailed as to amount, to whom paid, and for what purpose; and where
such expense is more than seventy-five dollars on behalf of any one
person, the name of such person shall be listed.
(iii) for the purpose of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:
(A) personal sustenance, lodging and travel disbursements of such
lobbyist;
(B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars in any one
calendar year, directly incurred for the printing or other means of
reproduction or mailing of letters, memoranda or other written
communications.
(iv) expenses paid or incurred for salaries other than that of the
lobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.
(v) expenses of more than fifty dollars shall be paid by check or
substantiated by receipts.
(c) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this section, where
a lobbyist required to file a statement of registration pursuant to
section 3-213 of this subchapter is not required to file a periodic
report pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) of this section because he or
she has not expended, received or incurred compensation and expenses as
therein specified, he or she shall file a periodic report stating that
he or she has not expended, received or incurred such compensation and
expenses by the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the reporting
period.
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