NY Legis L § 66-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws LEG - Legislative Article 4 - Legislative Committees; Testimony in Legislative Proceedings 66-B - Registration and Reports by Certain Persons Promoting or Opposing the Adoption of Proposed Constitutional Amendments by the Constitutional Convention

* § 66-b. Registration  and  reports  by  certain persons promoting or   opposing the adoption  of  proposed  constitutional  amendments  by  the   constitutional   convention  convening  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred   sixty-seven. 1. Every person retained or employed  for  compensation  by   any  person,  firm,  corporation  or  association who, on behalf of such   principal or employer, promotes or opposes directly  or  indirectly  the   adoption  of  a  proposed  constitutional amendment or amendments by the   constitutional  convention  convening  in  the  year  nineteen   hundred   sixty-seven,  whether  or not he has a personal interest therein, shall,   before any service  is  entered  upon  in  promoting  or  opposing  such   proposed  constitutional  amendment or amendments, file in the office of   the secretary of state a writing subscribed by such person  stating  the   name  or  names  of the person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or   corporations, association or associations, by whom or on whose behalf he   is retained or employed,  together  with  a  brief  description  of  the   proposed  constitutional  amendment  or amendments in reference to which   such service is to be rendered.2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to provide a  docket   to be known as the docket of constitutional convention appearances, with   appropriate blanks and indices, and to forthwith enter therein the names   of  the  persons  so  retained  or  employed  and of the persons, firms,   corporations or associations retaining or employing them, together  with   a   brief  description  of  the  proposed  constitutional  amendment  or   amendments in reference to which the service is to  be  rendered,  which   docket shall be open to public inspection.3.  Upon  the  termination  of such retainer or employment the fact of   such termination, with the date thereof, shall be entered in the  docket   by  the  secretary of state upon receiving written notice to that effect   from such person or from the person, firm, corporation or association in   whose behalf such service has been rendered.4. No person, firm, corporation or association shall retain or  employ   any person to promote or oppose any proposed constitutional amendment or   amendments  for  compensation  contingent  in  whole or in part upon the   adoption  or  defeat  of  any  such  amendment  or  amendments  by   the   constitutional   convention,   and  no  person  shall  accept  any  such   employment or render any such service for compensation  contingent  upon   such adoption or defeat.5.  No  person  shall for compensation engage in promoting or opposing   any  proposed   constitutional   amendment   or   amendments   by   such   constitutional  convention  except upon appearance entered in accordance   with the foregoing provisions of this section.6. It shall be the duty of every person, firm, corporation, public  or   private,  or  association,  (whether or not required to file pursuant to   the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  hereof),  not  later  than  April   fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven, to file in the office of the   secretary of state an itemized statement verified by the  oath  of  such   person, or in case of a firm by the oath of a member thereof, or in case   of  a  domestic  corporation  or  association  by the oath of an officer   thereof, or in case of a foreign corporation or association by the  oath   of  an  officer  or  agent thereof, showing in detail all expenses paid,   incurred  or  promised  directly  or  indirectly  through  April  third,   nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven, in connection with promoting or opposing   any constitutional amendment or amendments which may be proposed at such   constitutional convention, with the names of the payees and  the  amount   paid  to each, including all disbursements paid, incurred or promised to   persons employed or retained up to such date, and  also  specifying  the   nature  of such constitutional amendment or amendments, and the interest   therein of such  person,  firm,  corporation  or  association;  provided    however  no  such  itemized statement need be filed if the total of such   itemized expenses for the period ending April  third,  nineteen  hundred   sixty-seven is less than two hundred fifty dollars.7.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to the state nor   shall subdivisions one, five and nine of this section apply to a county,   city, town, village, public board or institution,  or  their  agents  or   employees;  nor  shall  the  provisions  of this section be construed as   affecting professional services in drafting  a  proposed  constitutional   amendment  or amendments or in advising clients or in rendering opinions   as to the construction and effect of  any  constitutional  amendment  or   amendments   which  may  be  proposed  at  such  convention  where  such   professional service is  not  otherwise  connected  with  constitutional   convention action.8. On or before April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, the   secretary  of  state shall furnish to each delegate to such convention a   summary of the information contained in  the  docket  of  constitutional   convention  appearances,  and on or before such date shall also transmit   to the president of such  constitutional  convention  a  copy  of  every   statement  filed in his office up to and including such date pursuant to   subdivision six of this section.9. Every person, every member of any firm, and  every  association  or   corporation  violating  any  provision  of this section and every person   causing or participating in a violation thereof shall  be  guilty  of  a   misdemeanor  and,  in  case  of  an  individual,  shall be punishable by   imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one year   or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by both,  and,  in   case  of  an  association or corporation, by a fine of not more than one   thousand dollars. And in addition to the penalties hereinbefore  imposed   any corporation or association failing to file the statement of expenses   prescribed  by  this section shall forfeit to the people of the state of   New York the sum of one hundred dollars per day for each  day  following   the  expiration  of  thirty days after the time fixed by subdivision six   for filing such statement, to be recovered in an action to be brought by   the attorney general.* NB (Expired see § 2 of Ch. 7 of the Laws of 1967)