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(a) Appearances. Each person who lobbies or engages another person to lobby before the city council or before a city board or commission identified in Section 12A-29
(1)(H) shall orally identify himself or herself and any client he or she represents upon beginning an address. Each person who lobbies or engages another person to lobby shall also disclose on appropriate sign-in sheets his or her identity, the identity of the client he or she represents, and whether he or she is registered as a lobbyist under this article.
(b) Oral lobbying contacts. Any person who makes an oral lobbying contact with a city official shall, at the beginning of the lobbying contact, state whether the person is registered under this article and identify each client on whose behalf the lobbying contact is made.
(c) Written lobbying contacts. Any registrant who makes a written lobbying contact (including an electronic communication) with a city official shall identify each client on whose behalf the lobbying contact is made and identify himself or herself as a registered lobbyist. (Ord. Nos. 27748; 30391
; 32072
; 32472
)
(a) A registration, an activity report, or a non-registrant disclosure statement filed by first-class United States mail or by common or contract carrier is timely if:
(1) it is properly addressed with postage and handling charges prepaid;
(2) it bears a post office cancellation mark or a receipt mark from a common or contract carrier indicating a time within the applicable filing period or before the applicable filing deadline, or the person required to file furnishes satisfactory proof that it was deposited in the mail or with a common or contract carrier within that filing period or before that filing deadline; and
(3) it was in fact received by the city secretary.
The city secretary shall:
(1) provide guidance and assistance on requirements for lobbyist registration, activity reports, and non-registrant disclosure statements and develop common standards, rules, and procedures for compliance with this article;
(2) coordinate with the inspector general to review registrations, activity reports, and non-registrant disclosure statements for completeness and timeliness;
(3) maintain filing, coding, and cross-indexing systems to carry out the purposes of this article, including:
(A) a publicly available list identifying all lobbyists and lobbying firms registered with the city and their clients; and
(B) computerized systems designed to minimize the burden of filing and maximize public access to materials filed under this article;
(4) on a quarterly basis, provide an updated list of all registered lobbyists and lobbying firms, and their clients, to the inspector general, the city council, the city manager, the city attorney, the city auditor, the administrative municipal judge, all department heads, and all chairs of boards and commissions identified in Section 12A-29(1)(H);
(5) make available for public inspection and copying at reasonable times the registrations, activity reports, and non-registrant disclosure statements filed under this article; and
(a) A person who violates a provision of this article, or who fails to perform an act required of the person by this article, commits an offense. A person commits a separate offense each day or portion of a day during which a violation is committed, permitted, or continued.
(b) An offense under this article is punishable by a criminal fine not to exceed $500. (Ord. Nos. 27748; 32472)