Int. No. 704

By Council Members Perkins, Barron, Brewer, Gerson and Liu

A Local Law to amend the New York City Charter in relation to annual reporting of lobbying activities before community boards.

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Subsections 20 and 21 of subdivision d of section 2800 of the New York City Charter are amended, and a new subsection 22 is added, to read as follows:

(20) Within budgetary appropriations for such purposes, disseminate information about city services and programs, process complaints, requests, and inquiries of residents of the community district; [and]

(21) Conduct substantial public outreach, including identifying the organizations active in the community district, maintaining a list of the names and mailing addresses of such community organizations, and making such names and, with the consent of the organization, mailing addresses available to the public upon request[.]; and

(22) Submit an annual report to the city clerk within three months of the end of each calendar year which shall, at a minimum, include the name of every lobbyist who engaged in lobbying or lobbying activities before the board or any of its committees, the dates on which each lobbyist engaged in such lobbying, and a description of the general subject or subjects on which the lobbyist lobbied.  For purposes of this subsection the term “lobbyist” shall have the same meaning ascribed to it in section 3-211(a) of the administrative code, and the terms “lobbying” and “lobbying activities” shall have the same meaning ascribed to them in section 3-211(c)(1)(iv) of the administrative code.

                     §2.  This law shall take effect six months after the date of enactment.

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