{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-3-901","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 3-901","heading":"§ 3-901 Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings.\n\nDoing business database. The term \"doing business database\" means the doing business database as defined in section 3-702 of the administrative code.\n\nDonation. The term \"donation\" means any contribution from a non-governmental source, including in-kind donations, gifts, loans, advances or deposits of money, or anything of value.\n\nElected official communications. The term \"elected official communications\" means a communication in the form of: (i) radio, television, cable or satellite broadcast; (ii) printed material such as advertisements, pamphlets, circulars, flyers, brochures or letters; (iii) telephone communication; or (iv) paid internet advertising; which includes the name, voice or likeness of the person holding office as mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president or member of the council with whom the entity making such communication is affiliated. Elected official communications do not include: (i) communications with a professional journalist or newscaster, including an editorial board or editorial or opinion writer of a newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association or wire service; or (ii) a communication that is: (A) directed, sent or distributed by the distributing organization only to individuals who affirmatively consent to be members of the distributing organization, contribute funds to the distributing organization, or, pursuant to the distributing organization's articles or bylaws, have the right to vote directly or indirectly for the election of directors or officers, or on changes to bylaws, disposition or all or substantially all of the distributing entity's assets or the merger or dissolution of the distributing entity; or (B) for the purpose of promoting or staging any candidate debate, town hall or similar forum to which at least two candidates seeking the same office, or two proponents of differing positions on a referendum or question submitted to voters, are invited as participants, and which does not promote or advance one candidate or position over another.\n\nOrganization affiliated with an elected official. The term \"organization affiliated with an elected official\" means:\n\n(i) a non-profit entity other than an agency, public authority, public benefit corporation or local development corporation;\n\n(ii) which has received at least one donation in the previous or current calendar year; and\n\n(iii) over which a person holding office as mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president or member of the council, or an agent of such a person, which shall include an appointee of such person serving at the pleasure of such person, exercises control. There shall be a rebuttable presumption of control by an elected official where such official, or such an agent, appoints a majority of seats on the board of the entity (not including appointees nominated by another individual or entity that is not such an agent of the elected official), or is a principal officer of the entity.\n\nIn determining whether a person holding office as mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president or member of the council, or an agent or appointee of such a person, exercises control over such an organization, the conflicts of interest board shall consider the totality of the circumstances, including:\n\n(i) whether the organization was created by such an elected official or their agent, or by an individual who was previously employed by, or was a paid political consultant of, the elected official, and, if so, how recently such organization was created;\n\n(ii) whether the board of the organization is chaired by such an elected official or their agent;\n\n(iii) whether board members appointed by such elected official serve for terms or are appointed only upon nomination of other individuals or entities that are not agents of such elected official;\n\n(iv) the degree of involvement or direction by the elected official in such organization's policies, operations and activities; and\n\n(v) other such factors as the conflicts of interest board shall promulgate by rule.\n\nPrincipal committees and political committees, as those terms are defined in section 3-702, are not organizations affiliated with an elected official.\n\nPerson with business dealings with the city. The term \"person with business dealings with the city\" means any person who is listed in the doing business database, or any domestic partner, spouse, or unemancipated child of such a person.\n\nSpend. The term \"spend\" means to spend or to cause to be spent.\n\n(L.L. 2016/181, 12/22/2016, eff. 1/1/2018)","path":["New York City Administrative Code","Title 3","Chapter 9: Organizations Affiliated with Elected Officials."],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"3b239b8584660727bb7e306ccf2aee4ffa5192582abe676407e9a5c85f1181fd","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-3-802","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-3-902"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}