§ 10 — Annual reports

* § 10. Annual reports. (a) Annual reports shall be filed by:\n (1) every lobbyist or public corporation required to file a statement\nof registration or a periodic report pursuant to section eight or nine\nof this act;\n (2) any client retaining, employing or designating a lobbyist or\nlobbyists, whether or not any such lobbyist was required to file a\nperiodic report, if during the year such client expended, received or\nincurred an amount in excess of two thousand dollars of combined\nreportable compensation and expenses, as provided in paragraph five of\nsubdivision (c) of this section, for the purposes of lobbying.\n (b) Such report pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision (a) of this\nsection shall be filed with the commission, on forms supplied by the\ncommission, by the fifteenth day of January next following the year for\nwhich such report is made and shall contain on an annual cumulative\nbasis all the information required in periodic reports by section eight\nor nine of this act.\n (c) Such report pursuant to paragraph two of subdivision (a) of this\nsection shall be filed with the commission, on forms supplied by the\ncommission, by the fifteenth day of January next following the year for\nwhich such report is made and shall contain:\n (1) the name, address and telephone number of the client;\n (2) the name, address and telephone number of each lobbyist retained,\nemployed or designated by such client;\n (3) a description of the general subject or subjects on which each\nlobbyist retained, employed or designated by such client has lobbied,\nand on which such client has lobbied;\n (4) the name of the person, organization, or legislative body before\nwhich such client has lobbied;\n (5) (i) the compensation paid or owed to each such lobbyist, and any\nother expenses paid or incurred by such client for the purpose of\nlobbying.\n (ii) any expenses required to be reported pursuant to subparagraph (i)\nof this paragraph shall be listed in the aggregate if seventy-five\ndollars or less and if more than seventy-five dollars such expenses\nshall be detailed as to amount, to whom paid, and for what purpose; and\nwhere such expenses are more than seventy-five dollars on behalf of any\none person, the name of such person shall be listed.\n (iii) for the purposes of this paragraph, expenses shall not include:\n (A) personal sustenance, lodging and travel disbursements of such\nlobbyist and client;\n (B) expenses, not in excess of five hundred dollars, directly incurred\nfor the printing or other means of reproduction or mailing of letters,\nmemoranda or other written communications.\n (iv) expenses paid or incurred for salaries other than that of the\nlobbyist shall be listed in the aggregate.\n (v) expenses of more than fifty dollars must be paid by check or\nsubstantiated by receipts and such checks and receipts shall be kept on\nfile by such client for a period of three years.\n (d) (1) All such annual reports shall be subject to review by the\ncommission.\n (2) Such annual reports shall be kept on file for a period of three\nyears and shall be open to public inspection during such period.\n * NB Chapter 2 of the laws of 1999 repealed, effective January 1,\n2000, the lobbying act as enacted by section 1 of chapter 1040 of the\nlaws of 1981. A new lobbying act was enacted as Article 1-A of the\nlegislative law.\n Section 5 of such chapter 2 transfers all of the functions and powers\nof the New York temporary state commission on lobbying created by such\nchapter 1040 to the New York temporary state commission on lobbying\ncreated by Article 1-A of the legislative law with respect to receiving\nthe periodic and annual reports required to be filed pursuant to\nsections 8, 9 and 10 of the repealed chapter 1040. Also, pursuant to\nsection 7 of such chapter 2, any action or proceeding commenced prior to\nJanuary 1, 2000 under the old lobbying act shall be continued,\nprosecuted and defended pursuant to the old lobbying act as in effect on\nDecember 31, 1999.\n Because of these provisions, the Commission will continue to set out\nthe full text of the repealed lobbying act through December 31, 2000 in\norder that lobbyists who were subject to the former lobbying act may be\nadequately apprised of the responsibilities and obligations imposed upon\nthem as continued by sections 5 and 7 of chapter 2 of the laws of 1999.\n