N.Y. Legislative Law § 1-i: Bi-monthly reports of public corporations

§ 1-i. Bi-monthly reports of public corporations. (a) Every public

corporation required to file a statement of registration pursuant to

section one-e of this article which in any lobbying year reasonably

anticipates that during the year it will expend or incur expenses in an

amount in excess of five thousand dollars, as provided in paragraph six

of subdivision (b) of this section, for the purpose of lobbying shall

file with the commission a bi-monthly written report, on forms supplied

by the commission, by the fifteenth day next succeeding the end of the

reporting period in which the public corporation was first required to

file a statement of registration. Such reporting periods shall be the

period of January first to the last day of February, March first to

April thirtieth, May first to June thirtieth, July first to August

thirty-first, September first to October thirty-first and November first

to December thirty-first.

(b) Such bi-monthly report shall contain:

(1) the name, address and telephone number of such public corporation;

(2) the name, address and telephone number of each lobbyist retained,

employed or designated by such public corporation;

(3) copies of any amendments relating to a retainer, employment or

designation, as filed in the original statement of registration pursuant

to section one-e of this article;

(4) a description of the general subject or subjects, the legislative

bill numbers of any bills and the rule, regulation, and ratemaking

numbers of any rules, regulations, or rates or proposed rules,

regulations, or rates on which the lobbyist has lobbied, and on which

such public corporation has lobbied;

(5) the name of the person, organization or legislative body before

which the public corporation, or its lobbyists, has lobbied;

(6) (i) the compensation paid or owed to the lobbyist and any expenses

expended, received or incurred by the lobbyist for the purpose of

lobbying; provided, however, any such expenses paid by such public

corporation to a lobbyist for the purpose of lobbying on behalf of such

public corporation shall be itemized in the same manner as if such

public corporation had directly paid or incurred such expenses.

(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 expenses are 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 each 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 compensation other than that of

each lobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.

(v) expenses of more than fifty dollars must be paid by check or

substantiated by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on

file by such public corporation for a period of three years.

(c) (1) All such bi-monthly reports shall be subject to review by the

commission.

(2) Such bi-monthly reports shall be kept on file for a period of

three years and shall be open to public inspection during such period.

(3) In addition to the filing fees authorized by this article, the

commission may impose a fee for late filing of a bi-monthly report

required by this section not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each day

that the report required to be filed is late, except that if the public

corporation making a late filing has not previously been required by

statute to file such a report, the fee for late filing shall not exceed

ten dollars for each day that the report required to be filed is late.