§ 66-B — Registration and reports by certain persons promoting or opposing the adoption of proposed constitutional amendments by the constitutiona...

* § 66-b. Registration and reports by certain persons promoting or\nopposing the adoption of proposed constitutional amendments by the\nconstitutional convention convening in the year nineteen hundred\nsixty-seven. 1. Every person retained or employed for compensation by\nany person, firm, corporation or association who, on behalf of such\nprincipal or employer, promotes or opposes directly or indirectly the\nadoption of a proposed constitutional amendment or amendments by the\nconstitutional convention convening in the year nineteen hundred\nsixty-seven, whether or not he has a personal interest therein, shall,\nbefore any service is entered upon in promoting or opposing such\nproposed constitutional amendment or amendments, file in the office of\nthe secretary of state a writing subscribed by such person stating the\nname or names of the person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or\ncorporations, association or associations, by whom or on whose behalf he\nis retained or employed, together with a brief description of the\nproposed constitutional amendment or amendments in reference to which\nsuch service is to be rendered.\n 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to provide a docket\nto be known as the docket of constitutional convention appearances, with\nappropriate blanks and indices, and to forthwith enter therein the names\nof the persons so retained or employed and of the persons, firms,\ncorporations or associations retaining or employing them, together with\na brief description of the proposed constitutional amendment or\namendments in reference to which the service is to be rendered, which\ndocket shall be open to public inspection.\n 3. Upon the termination of such retainer or employment the fact of\nsuch termination, with the date thereof, shall be entered in the docket\nby the secretary of state upon receiving written notice to that effect\nfrom such person or from the person, firm, corporation or association in\nwhose behalf such service has been rendered.\n 4. No person, firm, corporation or association shall retain or employ\nany person to promote or oppose any proposed constitutional amendment or\namendments for compensation contingent in whole or in part upon the\nadoption or defeat of any such amendment or amendments by the\nconstitutional convention, and no person shall accept any such\nemployment or render any such service for compensation contingent upon\nsuch adoption or defeat.\n 5. No person shall for compensation engage in promoting or opposing\nany proposed constitutional amendment or amendments by such\nconstitutional convention except upon appearance entered in accordance\nwith the foregoing provisions of this section.\n 6. It shall be the duty of every person, firm, corporation, public or\nprivate, or association, (whether or not required to file pursuant to\nthe provisions of subdivision one hereof), not later than April\nfifteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, to file in the office of the\nsecretary of state an itemized statement verified by the oath of such\nperson, or in case of a firm by the oath of a member thereof, or in case\nof a domestic corporation or association by the oath of an officer\nthereof, or in case of a foreign corporation or association by the oath\nof an officer or agent thereof, showing in detail all expenses paid,\nincurred or promised directly or indirectly through April third,\nnineteen hundred sixty-seven, in connection with promoting or opposing\nany constitutional amendment or amendments which may be proposed at such\nconstitutional convention, with the names of the payees and the amount\npaid to each, including all disbursements paid, incurred or promised to\npersons employed or retained up to such date, and also specifying the\nnature of such constitutional amendment or amendments, and the interest\ntherein of such person, firm, corporation or association; provided\nhowever no such itemized statement need be filed if the total of such\nitemized expenses for the period ending April third, nineteen hundred\nsixty-seven is less than two hundred fifty dollars.\n 7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the state nor\nshall subdivisions one, five and nine of this section apply to a county,\ncity, town, village, public board or institution, or their agents or\nemployees; nor shall the provisions of this section be construed as\naffecting professional services in drafting a proposed constitutional\namendment or amendments or in advising clients or in rendering opinions\nas to the construction and effect of any constitutional amendment or\namendments which may be proposed at such convention where such\nprofessional service is not otherwise connected with constitutional\nconvention action.\n 8. On or before April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, the\nsecretary of state shall furnish to each delegate to such convention a\nsummary of the information contained in the docket of constitutional\nconvention appearances, and on or before such date shall also transmit\nto the president of such constitutional convention a copy of every\nstatement filed in his office up to and including such date pursuant to\nsubdivision six of this section.\n 9. Every person, every member of any firm, and every association or\ncorporation violating any provision of this section and every person\ncausing or participating in a violation thereof shall be guilty of a\nmisdemeanor and, in case of an individual, shall be punishable by\nimprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one year\nor by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by both, and, in\ncase of an association or corporation, by a fine of not more than one\nthousand dollars. And in addition to the penalties hereinbefore imposed\nany corporation or association failing to file the statement of expenses\nprescribed by this section shall forfeit to the people of the state of\nNew York the sum of one hundred dollars per day for each day following\nthe expiration of thirty days after the time fixed by subdivision six\nfor filing such statement, to be recovered in an action to be brought by\nthe attorney general.\n * NB (Expired see § 2 of Ch. 7 of the Laws of 1967)\n