(A) A lobbyist or employer shall register under § 21.41.
(B) A lobbyist or employer shall keep all receipts and maintain all records which § 21.42 requires the person to keep or maintain.
(C) A lobbyist or employer shall file a statement of spending on lobbying under § 21.42.
(D) A lobbyist or employer shall file a statement of financial transactions under § 21.43.
(E) (1) Except as provided in (E)(2) of this section, a lobbyist or employer shall not offer, give, or agree to give any thing or service valued at more than $50 to a Metro Officer, a candidate, the immediate family member of a Metro Officer or candidate, or members of his or her staff, unless such thing or service is available to the general public on the same terms.
(2) For events to which all Metro Council members are invited along with any other Metro Officers, a lobbyist or employer may provide the officers with the cost of attendance or participation at the event, including food and beverage consumed, that is valued at more than $50 so long as the value does not exceed $300 per individual officer;
(3) Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to the solicitation or acceptance of contributions to the campaign of an announced candidate for elective public office as governed by applicable provisions of the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
(F) For Metro Officers as that term is defined in LMCO § 21.01(1) through (2)(j) and excluding Metro Officers as defined in LMCO § 21.01(2)(k) and (l): Those officers shall not accept any engagement, and no employer shall engage those officers, for the purposes of lobbying any Metro Officer or any member of the staff of any Metro Officer until at least one year has elapsed from the date when the lobbyist vacated his or her office.
(G) No employer shall engage any person to lobby in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon any executive action or the passage, modification, or defeat of any legislation. No lobbyist shall accept any engagement to lobby in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon any executive action or the passage, modification, or defeat of any legislation.
(Lou. Metro Ord. No. 168, approved 11-16-2022)