New Jersey Statutes > Title 52 > Chapter 13C > § 52:13C-21 - Notice of representation; filing, contents, separate notices
Current as of: 2009
4. a. Any person who, on or after the effective date of P.L.1991, c.243 or on or after the effective date of P.L.2004, c.27 for the purpose of influencing governmental processes, is employed, retained or engages himself as a governmental affairs agent shall, prior to any communication with, or the making of any expenditures providing a benefit to, a member of the Legislature, legislative staff, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Governor's staff, or an officer or staff member of the Executive Branch, and in any event within 30 days of the appropriate effective date or of such employment, retainer or engagement, whichever occurs later, file a signed notice of representation with the Election Law Enforcement Commission in such detail as the commission may prescribe, identifying himself and persons by whom he is employed or retained, and the persons in whose interests he is working, and the general nature of his proposed services as a governmental affairs agent for such persons, which notice shall contain the following information:
(1)his name, business address and regular occupation;
(2)the name, business address and occupation or principal business of the person from whom he receives compensation for acting as a governmental affairs agent;
(3) (a) the name, business address and occupation or principal business of any person in whose interest he acts as a governmental affairs agent in consideration of the aforesaid compensation, if such person is other than the person from whom said compensation is received; and
(b)if a person, identified under paragraph (2) of this subsection as one from whom the governmental affairs agent receives compensation, is a membership organization or corporation whose 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, respectively, of those persons. The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to govern the content of any information required to be disclosed under this subparagraph and shall take such steps as are reasonably necessary to ensure that all such information is, in accordance with those rules and regulations, both accurate and complete.
Any list of governmental affairs agents and their principals required to be published quarterly under subsection h. of section 6 of P.L.1971, c.183 (C.52:13C-23) shall include, for each such principal for whom it is not otherwise apparent, the primary specific interest which the principal may reasonably be understood to seek to advance or protect through its engagement of the governmental affairs agent and the category of persons required to file additional information, as that interest and such category shall have been determined under subparagraph (b) of this paragraph;
(4)whether the person from whom he receives said compensation employs him solely as a governmental affairs agent, or whether he is a regular employee performing services for his employer which include but are not limited to the influencing of legislation, regulation or governmental processes;
(5)the length of time for which he will be receiving compensation from the person aforesaid for acting as a governmental affairs agent, if said length of time can be ascertained at the time of filing;
(6)the type of legislation, regulation or governmental process or the particular legislation, regulation or governmental process in relation to which he is to act as governmental affairs agent in consideration of the aforesaid compensation, and any particular legislation, regulation or governmental process or type of legislation, regulation or governmental process which he is to promote or oppose;
(7)(Deleted by amendment, P.L.2
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