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(a) In this section:
(1) AFFILIATED means the relationship created when one business entity is the parent or subsidiary of another business entity or when multiple business entities are subsidiaries of the same parent business entity.
(2) APPLICANT means any person who:
(A) owns all or part of the property that is the subject of a zoning case or public subsidy matter;
(B) is a parent, child, spouse, or other family member within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the domestic partner, of:
(i) the property owner; or
(ii) any individual described in Paragraph (2)(E) of this subsection;
(C) is a representative of the property owner in connection with the zoning case or public subsidy matter, and, if the representative is an entity, includes any individual who holds with the entity any position described in Paragraph (2)(E)(i) through (vii) of this subsection;
(D) is affiliated with the property owner; or
(E) if the property owner is an entity, is an individual who holds any of the following positions with the entity or with any affiliated business entity:
(i) the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, or chief operating officer, or any person with equivalent duties, powers, and functions;
(ii) a member of the board of directors of a corporation;
(iii) a general partner of a general partnership or limited partnership;
(iv) a manager of a limited liability company that is managed by managers;
(v) a member of a limited liability company that is managed by members entitled to manage the company;
(vi) a member of the board of directors of a cooperative association; or
(vii) a trust manager of a real estate investment trust.
(3) CANDIDATE means a person who has filed an application with the city secretary for a place on the official ballot in an impending election for one or more members of the Dallas city council.
(4) PUBLIC SUBSIDY MATTER means any of the following:
(A) A tax abatement.
(B) A housing tax credit.
(C) An historic development tax abatement.
(D) Federal grant money administered by the city.
(E) Tax increment financing.
(F) An economic development grant or loan.
(b) An applicant in a zoning case shall not (either personally or through a representative, employee, or agent) knowingly make a campaign contribution to a city council member or candidate during the period between the date the first notices of a public hearing to consider the zoning case by the city plan commission are mailed and the later of:
(1) 60 days after the zoning case is withdrawn pursuant to Section 51A-4.701(f) of the Dallas City Code;
(2) 60 days after the date a decision of the city plan commission on the zoning case becomes final and all opportunities for appeal are exhausted; or
(3) 60 days after the date a final decision on the zoning case is made by the city council either granting or denying the request.
(c) Subsection (b) does not apply to a change of zoning for historic districts, conservation districts, or neighborhood stabilization overlays.
(d) An applicant in a public subsidy matter shall not (either personally or through a representative, employee, or agent) knowingly make a campaign contribution to a city council member or candidate
from the time the matter is posted on a council committee agenda or a council agenda, whichever occurs first, until 60 days after the date the city council votes on the public subsidy matter or the application for the public subsidy matter is withdrawn by the applicant.
(e) A person responding to a request for bids or request for proposals on a city contract shall not (either personally or through a representative, employee, or agent) knowingly make a campaign contribution to a city council member or candidate from the time the advertisement or public notification of the request for bids or request for proposals is made until 60 days after the date the contract is awarded by the city council. For purposes of this subsection, "person" includes:
(1) any individual responding to the request for bids or proposals;
(2) any entity responding to the request for bids or proposals and its affiliated business entities;
(3) if the person responding to the request for bids or proposals is an entity, any individual who holds with the entity (or with any affiliated business entity) any position described in Subsection (a)(2)(E)(i) through (vii) of this section;
(4) the parent, child, spouse, or other family member within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the domestic partner, of any individual described in Paragraph (1) or (3) of this subsection; and
(5) a representative of the bidder or proposer in connection with the city contract, and, if the representative is an entity, includes any individual who holds with the entity any position described in Subsection (a)(2)(E)(i) through (vii) of this section.
(f) This section applies to a campaign contribution made to any specific-purpose political committee that will ultimately contribute to an identified city council member or candidate, and any campaign contribution made to the specific-purpose political committee during the time restrictions imposed by this section will be considered to have been made to that city council member or candidate. The time restrictions imposed by this section do not apply to when the specific-purpose political committee makes a campaign contribution to the identified city council member or candidate.
(g) This section applies to a campaign contribution made by any political committee established, administered, financially supported, or assisted pursuant to state or federal law by a corporation or labor organization that is an applicant in a zoning case or public subsidy matter or that is the person responding to a request for bids or proposals on a city contract. The time restrictions imposed by this section do not apply to when an individual campaign contribution is received by the political committee, but only to when the political committee actually makes the campaign contribution to the city council member or candidate.
(h) Except as provided in Subsection (g), this section does not apply to a campaign contribution made to or by any general-purpose political committee. (Ord. Nos. 27749; 28169; 28239; 30489)
(a) An individual shall not make a contribution in support of, or opposition to, a candidate for city council under a name other than the name by which the individual is identified for legal purposes.
(b) A contribution must be made in the name of the individual who owns and is contributing the thing of value, and one individual shall not make a contribution on behalf of another individual. (Ord. Nos. 15434; 16718; 21035)
(a) A campaign treasurer for a political committee shall file reports required by this article. Failure to file a timely report required by this article constitutes an offense.
(b) A candidate for city council or the candidate’s campaign treasurer shall not knowingly accept a contribution that will cause the amount contributed to a candidate by an individual or a political committee, with respect to a single city council election, to exceed the amount authorized in Section 15A-2. (Ord. Nos. 15434; 16105; 16718; 21035)
The ethics advisory commission has jurisdiction to consider a violation of this article pursuant to the procedures detailed in Chapter 12A of this code. (Ord. Nos. 16718; 21035; 30715)