(A) Within 48 hours of any service or lobbyist campaigning covered by the Lobbyist and Lobbyist Organization Registration and Disclosure Ordinance commences, any individual who is initially employed or retained as a lobbyist or any lobbyist organization shall register with the City Clerk filing a single registration statement under oath on a prescribed form showing:
(1) The lobbyist's or lobbyist organization's full name, permanent business address and business address while lobbying or conducting lobbyist campaigning;
(2) The name and address of each of the lobbyist's employers;
(3) The name and address of each of the lobbyist's clients;
(4) The item(s) of official action, identifying for each item the name and address of the client(s) on whose behalf the lobbyist is acting or participating;
(5) The name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist organization's chairperson and treasurer and all parties having signature authorization for the lobbyist organization's business bank account, the name and address of the bank where the lobbyist organization has its business bank account; and
(6) The name and address of the bank where the lobbyist has his/her business bank account for the checking account required in this ordinance when the lobbyist campaigns for or against an official action. The name and address of any person who has signature authorization for such checking account.
(B) The City Clerk may charge a reasonable registration fee for the initial registration by a lobbyist or lobbyist organization. No additional fee may be charged for amendments to the original registration or for the annual statement required in this section. Lobbyist organizations that file a lobbyist campaign registration concerning an official action different from that designated in a previous registration shall pay the registration fee required in this subsection for each such subsequent registration.
(C) For each succeeding year that an individual is employed or retained as a lobbyist by the same employer, and for whom all the information disclosed in the initial registration statement remains substantially the same, the lobbyist shall file a simple annual registration renewal 12 months following initial registration and every 12 months thereafter for each of the lobbyist's employers together with a short, abbreviated prescribed form for renewal. The annual statement shall be in addition to any lobbyist campaign registration and disclosure statement that the lobbyist may be required to file under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(D) Whenever there is a modification of the facts required to be set forth by this section or there is a termination of the lobbyist's employment as a lobbyist before the end of the year, the lobbyist shall notify the City Clerk within one month of such occurrence.
(E) Lobbyists and lobbyist organizations shall file a separate registration with the City Clerk for each official action the lobbyist or lobbyist organization supports or opposes. When lobbyists or lobbyist organizations support or oppose an official action other than the official action identified in any previous registration they have filed with the City Clerk, they shall file an additional separate registration for each such official action supported or opposed.
(F) Each registrant shall file between the first and tenth day of April, July, October, and January a report of the registrant's lobbying activities during the previous calendar quarter. The report shall be on a prescribed form. If a registrant has not engaged in any lobbying in 12 months the registrant may file a Notice of Discontinuation of Lobbying with the City Clerk. Once such notice is filed with the City Clerk the registrant will no longer be responsible for filing quarterly reports. In the event that the registrant seeks to resume lobbying, they will be required to re-register pursuant to Subsection (A) of this Section.
(Ord. 62-2001; Am. Ord. 5-2003; Am. Ord. 2019-031)