New York City Administrative Code Section 3-217 Annual reports - Annual Reports.

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    § 3-217 Annual reports. (a) Annual reports shall be filed by:
    (1)  every  lobbyist  required  to  file  a  statement of registration
  pursuant to section 3-213 of this subchapter;
    (2) any client retaining,  employing  or  designating  a  lobbyist  or
  lobbyists, if during the year such client expended, received or incurred
  an  amount  in  excess  of  two  thousand dollars of combined reportable
  compensation or expenses, as provided in paragraph five  of  subdivision
  (c) of this section, for the purposes of lobbying.
    (b)  Such  report pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision (a) of this
  section shall be filed with the city clerk, on  forms  supplied  by  the
  city  clerk, by the fifteenth day of January next following the year for
  which such report is made and shall  contain  on  an  annual  cumulative
  basis  all the information required in periodic reports by section 3-216
  of this subchapter.
    (c) Such report pursuant to paragraph two of subdivision (a)  of  this
  section shall be filed with the city clerk on forms supplied by the city
  clerk  by the fifteenth day of January next following the year for which
  such report is made and shall contain:
    (1) the name, address and telephone number of the client;
    (2) the name, address and telephone number of each lobbyist  retained,
  employed or designated by such client;
    (3)  a  description  of  the general subject or subjects on which each
  lobbyist retained, employed or designated by such client has lobbied;
    (4) the person or agency before which such client has lobbied;
    (5) (i) the compensation paid or owed to each such lobbyist,  and  any
  other  expenses  paid  or  incurred  by  such  client for the purpose of
  lobbying.
    (ii) any 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 purposes of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:
    (A) personal sustenance, lodging  and  travel  disbursements  of  such
  lobbyist and client;
    (B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars, 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 must be paid by check or
  substantiated by receipts.
    (d) (1) All such annual reports shall be subject to review by the city
  clerk.
    (2) Such annual reports shall be kept on file in  the  office  of  the
  city  clerk  for  a  period  of  five  years and shall be open to public
  inspection during such period.

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