New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 20 - REPRESENTED ENTITIES AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS AGENTS › Section 19:25-20.4 - Governmental affairs agent notice of representation

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a)
				  Each previously registered governmental affairs agent shall electronically file
				  with the Commission a notice of representation on a form prescribed by the
				  Commission containing the information required by
				  52:13C-21.
(b) The notice of representation shall be
				  filed prior to making any communication with, or the making of any expenditures
				  providing a benefit to, a member of the Legislature, with legislative staff,
				  with the Governor, with the Governor's staff, or with an officer or staff
				  member of the Executive Branch, or prior to making any communication concerning
				  a governmental process with an officer or member of the Executive Branch, or
				  any authority, board, commission, or other agency or instrumentality in or of a
				  principal department of the Executive Branch of State government, or shall be
				  filed within 30 days of employment, retainer, or engagement as a governmental
				  affairs agent, whichever occurs earlier. A group of persons registered by the
				  Commission as governmental affairs agents, that together represent more than
				  one entity, shall be permitted to file a notice of representation particular to
				  a represented entity on behalf of the group, provided the person filing
				  indicates the involvement of the group or indicates the involvement of specific
				  governmental affairs agent(s).
(c)
				  Each governmental affairs agent must notify the Commission in writing of any
				  material change in the information supplied in the notice of representation
				  within 15 days of the effective date of such change, or not later than the
				  filing date of the subsequent quarterly report, whichever occurs earlier, by
				  electronically filing an amendment to the notice of representation required
				  under (a) above.
(d) If a
				  governmental affairs agent identifies a membership organization or corporation
				  as the represented entity or person from whom he or she receives compensation
				  for acting as a governmental affairs agent, and the name or occupation so
				  identified does not, either explicitly or by virtue of the nature of the
				  principal business in which the organization or its members, or the corporation
				  or its shareholders, is commonly known to be engaged, clearly reveal the
				  primary specific economic, social, political, or other interest which the
				  organization or corporation may reasonably be understood to seek to advance or
				  protect through its employment, retainer, or engagement of the governmental
				  affairs agent, a description of that primary economic, social, political, or
				  other interest and a list of the persons having organizational or financial
				  control of the organization or corporation, including the names, mailing
				  addresses and occupations of those persons, shall be included in the notice of
				  representation of the governmental affairs agent.