No legislative advocate shall knowingly and wilfully:
A. Deceive or attempt to deceive any City official with regard to any material fact pertinent to any proposed or pending Municipal legislation;
B. Cause any communication to be sent to any City official in the name of a nonexistent person, or in the name of a person without the consent of such person.
C. If such legislative advocate is a financier, deceive or attempt to deceive directly or indirectly, any resident of the City with regard to any material fact pertinent to any proposed, pending or existing Municipal legislation.
D. If such legislative advocate is a financier, employ any individual or group of individuals, directly or indirectly through any other person or entity, as circulators without having first caused each individual circulator to have received a written factual description of the true purpose and effect of the referendum, and required that each individual circulator attend a training session of at least two (2) hours concerning the requirements of this Code and the Elections Code relating to the circulation of referendum petitions, the signature gatherer's duty not to deceive the voters, and the actual purpose and effect of the referendum. Financiers shall maintain written records of the financier's contract with signature gathering firm or firms with these requirements incorporated into said contracts, as well as written records showing that each circulator employed has received the written description and attended the training required herein. Financiers shall maintain such records for not less than two (2) calendar years following the later of the date of the election on the referendum, the date the City Council repeals the ordinance subject to referendum, or the date the referendum fails to qualify for the ballot. Financiers shall make such records available to the City Attorney or his designee during normal business hours following not less than twenty four (24) hours' written notice to the financier. (Ord. 00-O-2347, eff. 9-1-2000; amd. Ord. 06-O-2507, eff. 11-17-2006; Ord. 19-O-2787, eff. 10-18-2019)