§ 2-250.15. Registration.

(a)

Separate registrations. A person required to register as a lobbyist under section 2-250.13 must file a separate registration form for each client from or with respect to whom the registrant receives compensation of, or expends, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) or more for lobbying in a calendar half. A registrant who makes more than one lobbying contact for the same client shall file a single registration form covering all lobbying contacts for that client. Each registration form must be signed under oath. If the registrant is not an individual, an authorized officer or agent of this registrant shall sign the form.

(b)

Initial registration. An initial registration form relating to a client must be filed by a person required to register under section 2-250.13 within one month after the relevant threshold for compensation or expenditures, stated in that section, is met.

(c)

Subsequent annual registration. Except as provided in subsection (e), subsequent registration forms must be filed annually each January for each client for whom a registrant previously filed, or was required to file, an initial registration form.

(d)

Required disclosures. Initial or subsequent registration shall be on a form prescribed by the city secretary and shall include, to the extent applicable:

(1)

The full name, phone number, permanent address, and nature of the business of:

(A)

The registrant;

(B)

The client;

(C)

Any person, other than a client, on whose behalf the registrant has been engaged by the client to lobby;

(D)

Any person, other than the client, who is known by the registrant to contribute financially to the compensation of the registrant, or which in whole or in major part plans, supervises, or controls the registrant's lobbying activities;

(E)

Any lobbying firm for which the registrant is an agent or employee with respect to the client; and

(F)

Each employee or agent of the registrant who has acted or whom the registrant expects to act as a lobbyist on behalf of the client;

(2)

A statement of all municipal questions on which the registrant has lobbied for the client in the year preceding the filing of the registration or foreseeably will lobby;

(3)

A list of any positions held by the registrant as an official or employee of the City of Eagle Pass, as those terms are defined in section 2-212 during the past seven (7) years.

(4)

If the registrant is a former city official or employee, a statement that the registrant's lobbying activities have not violated and will no foreseeably violate section 2-242(a) or (b) or section 2-243(b) of this ethics code.

(e)

Termination of registration. A registrant shall file a notice of termination of registration with the city secretary if the registrant is no longer required to register by section 2-250.13. A filing under this subsection does not relieve the registrant of reporting requirements imposed by section 2-250.16 for the reporting period in question.

(f)

Fee. At the time of initial or subsequent annual registration with respect to a client, a registrant shall pay to the city, and the city secretary shall collect, a fee in an amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). All lobbyist registration fees shall be deposited into a separate account within the general fund, which account shall be used to offset the costs of administering the city's lobbying ordinance and the costs of handling disclosure filings.

(Ord. No. 06-22, § 1(part E, § 5), 9-5-2006)