2023 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)