2-156-250 Reports of lobbying activities.
   No later than January 20th, April 20th, July 20th and October 20th of each year, each registrant shall file with the Board a written report of lobbying activities during the previous three calendar months. The report shall be on a form prescribed by the Board, which may include electronic submission, and shall contain:
   (a)   The registrant's name, permanent address, and temporary address (if any) while lobbying;
   (b)   With respect to each client:
      (i)   The name, business address, and nature of business of the client and of any other business entities on whose behalf lobbying was performed;
      (ii)   A statement of the amount of compensation received from each client;
      (iii)   The name of each agency before which the registrant lobbied and a brief description of the administrative action or legislative action that the registrant sought to influence, including: (A) identifying information, if applicable, such as title, file number, or document number; and (B) the outcome sought by the client;
   (c)   The total amount of expenditures, outside the registrant’s own business entity, for lobbying in each of the following categories:
      (i)   Office expenses;
      (ii)   Advertising and publications;
      (iii)   Compensation to others, provided that compensation paid by employees of a not-for-profit entity, or by the not-for-profit entity itself, as stipends to other individuals to participate in activities that would constitute lobbying, without regard to whether those other individuals’ activities would meet the compensation or hours-spent thresholds set forth in Section 2-156-210, shall not count toward such employee’s own expenditures for determining whether that employee must register as a lobbyist pursuant to Section 2-156-210;
      (iv)   Personal sustenance, lodging, and travel totaling $50 or more;
      (v)   Other expenses; provided, however, that each expenditure of $250.00 or more shall also be itemized by the date of the expenditure, the amount, purpose, and beneficiary of the expenditure, the name, address, and nature of business of the recipient, and administrative action or legislative action, if any, in connection with which said expenditure was made;
   (d)   An itemized list of every gift given to any official or employee of the city; and
   (e)   An itemized list of every political contribution made to any of the following persons: (1) any candidate for city office; (2) any elected official of the government of the city; and (3) any official or employee of the city seeking election to an office other than a city office.
   (f)   Upon receipt of the quarterly report required under subsection (a) of this section, the board of ethics shall, without delay, post such report on the on-line system required under subsection (m) of Section 2-156-380.
(Prior code § 26.2-25; Added Coun. J. 5-16-90, p. 16204; Amend Coun. J. 7-30-97, p. 50892; Amend Coun. J. 5-17-00, p. 32667, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-28-11, p. 4941, § 8; Amend Coun. J. 2-13-13, p. 46730, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 12-13-23, p. 7721, § 1)