N.Y. Regulation of Lobbying Act 1040/81 § 10: Annual reports

* § 10. Annual reports. (a) Annual reports shall be filed by:

(1) every lobbyist or public corporation required to file a statement

of registration or a periodic report pursuant to section eight or nine

of this act;

(2) any client retaining, employing or designating a lobbyist or

lobbyists, whether or not any such lobbyist was required to file a

periodic report, if during the year such client expended, received or

incurred an amount in excess of two thousand dollars of combined

reportable compensation and 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 commission, on forms supplied by the

commission, 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 eight

or nine of this act.

(c) Such report pursuant to paragraph two of subdivision (a) of this

section shall be filed with the commission, on forms supplied by the

commission, 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,

and on which such client has lobbied;

(4) the name of the person, organization, or legislative body 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 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 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 and such checks and receipts shall be kept on

file by such client for a period of three years.

(d) (1) All such annual reports shall be subject to review by the

commission.

(2) Such annual reports shall be kept on file for a period of three

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

* NB Chapter 2 of the laws of 1999 repealed, effective January 1,

2000, the lobbying act as enacted by section 1 of chapter 1040 of the

laws of 1981. A new lobbying act was enacted as Article 1-A of the

legislative law.

Section 5 of such chapter 2 transfers all of the functions and powers

of the New York temporary state commission on lobbying created by such

chapter 1040 to the New York temporary state commission on lobbying

created by Article 1-A of the legislative law with respect to receiving

the periodic and annual reports required to be filed pursuant to

sections 8, 9 and 10 of the repealed chapter 1040. Also, pursuant to

section 7 of such chapter 2, any action or proceeding commenced prior to

January 1, 2000 under the old lobbying act shall be continued,

prosecuted and defended pursuant to the old lobbying act as in effect on

December 31, 1999.

Because of these provisions, the Commission will continue to set out

the full text of the repealed lobbying act through December 31, 2000 in

order that lobbyists who were subject to the former lobbying act may be

adequately apprised of the responsibilities and obligations imposed upon

them as continued by sections 5 and 7 of chapter 2 of the laws of 1999.