The financial disclosure statement required under this article shall contain the following information:
(a) The name, residential and business addresses of the person filing the statement and all names under which the person does business.
(b) The name and address of each employer of the person.
(c) The identification, by category, of every source of income over five thousand dollars ($5,000) received during the preceding calendar year, in his or her own name or by any other person for his or her use or benefit, by the person filing the statement, and a brief description of the nature of the services for which the income was received. This subsection does not require a person filing the statement who derives income from a business, profession or occupation to disclose the individual sources and items of income that constitute the gross income of that business, profession or occupation, nor does this subsection require a person filing the statement to report the source or amount of income derived by his or her spouse.
(d) If the person profited or benefited in the year prior to the date of filing from a contract for the sale of goods or services to a state, county, municipal or other local governmental agency either directly or through a partnership, corporation or association in which such person owned or controlled more than ten percent (10%), the person shall describe the nature of the goods or services and identify the governmental agencies which purchased the goods or services.
(e) Each interest group or category listed below doing business in this State with which the person filing the statement did business or furnished services and from which the person received more than twenty percent (20%) of the person's gross income during the preceding calendar year. The groups or categories are electric utilities, gas utilities, telephone utilities, water utilities, cable television companies, interstate transportation companies, intrastate transportation companies, oil or gas retail companies, bank, savings and loan associations, loan or finance companies, manufacturing companies, surface mining companies, deep mining companies, mining equipment companies, chemical companies, insurance companies, retail companies, beer, wine or liquor companies or distributors, recreation related companies, timbering companies, hospitals or other health care providers, trade associations, professional associations, associations of public employees or public officials, counties, cities or towns, labor organizations, waste disposal companies, wholesale companies, groups or associations seeking to legalize gambling, advertising companies, media companies, race tracks and promotional companies.
(f) The names of all persons, excluding that person's immediate family, parents or grandparents residing or transacting business in the state to whom the person filing the statement owes, on the date of execution of this statement in the aggregate in his or her own name or in the name of any other person more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500); provided, that nothing herein shall require the disclosure of a mortgage on the person's primary and secondary residences or of automobile loans on an automobile maintained for the use of the person's immediate family, or of a student loan, nor shall this section require the disclosure of debts which result from the ordinary conduct of such person's business, profession or occupation or of debts of the person filing the statement to any financial institution, credit card company or business, in which the person has an ownership interest. However, the previous provision shall not exclude from disclosure loans obtained pursuant to the linked deposit program provided for in West Virginia Code 12-1-1 et seq. or any other loan or debit incurred which requires approval of the State or any of its political subdivisions.
(g) The names of all persons except immediate family members, parents and grandparents residing or transacting business in the State (other than a demand or savings account in a bank, savings and loan association, credit union or building and loan association or other similar depository) who owes on the date of execution of this statement, more, in the aggregate, than twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) to the person filing the statement, either in his or her own name or to any other person for his or her use or benefit. This subsection does not require the disclosure of debts owed to the person filing the statement which debts result from the ordinary conduct of such person's business, profession or occupation or of loans made by the person filing the statement to any business in which the person has an ownership interest.
(h) The source of each gift having a value of over one hundred dollars ($100.00), received from a person having a direct and immediate interest in a governmental activity over which the person filing the statement has control, shall be reported by the person filing the statement when such gift is given to such person in his or her name or for his or her use or benefit during the preceding calendar year; provided, that gifts received by will or by virtue of the laws of descent and distribution, or received from one's spouse, child, grandchild, parents or grandparents, or received by way of distribution from an inter vivos or testamentary trust established by the spouse or child, grandchild or by an ancestor of the person filing the statement are not required to be reported. As used in this subsection any series or plurality of gifts which exceeds in the aggregate the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) from the same source or donor, either directly or indirectly, and in the same calendar year, shall be regarded as a single gift in excess of that aggregate amount.
(Ord. 916. Passed 3-23-93.)