Sec. 1-95. Registration procedure. Fees. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 1-95. Registration procedure. Fees. (a) Each registrant shall file every two years with the Office of State Ethics on a registration form signed under penalty of false statement on or before January fifteenth of odd-numbered years or prior to the commencement of lobbying whichever is later. If the registrant is not an individual, an authorized officer or agent of the registrant shall sign the form. Such registration shall be on a form prescribed by the board and shall include:

      (1) If the registrant is an individual, the registrant's name, permanent address and temporary address while lobbying and the name, address and nature of business of any person who compensates or reimburses, or agrees to compensate or reimburse the registrant and the terms of the compensation, reimbursement or agreement, but shall not include the compensation paid to an employee for his involvement in activities other than lobbying;

      (2) If the registrant is a corporation, the name, address, place of incorporation and the principal place of business of the corporation;

      (3) If the registrant is an association, group of persons or an organization, the name and address of the principal officers and directors of such association, group of persons or organization. If the registrant is formed primarily for the purpose of lobbying, it shall disclose the name and address of any person contributing two thousand dollars or more to the registrant's lobbying activities in any calendar year;

      (4) If the registrant is not an individual, the name and address of each individual who will lobby on the registrant's behalf; and

      (5) The identification, with reasonable particularity, of areas of legislative or administrative action on which the registrant expects to lobby, including the names of executive agencies and quasi-public agencies and, where applicable, solicitations for state contracts and procurements.

      (b) Each registrant shall pay a reasonable fee not in excess of the cost of administering the registration form provided for in subsection (a) of this section plus the cost of collecting, filing, copying and distributing the information filed by registrants under section 1-96, but not less than twenty-five dollars. A registrant who commences lobbying in an even-numbered year shall file with the Office of State Ethics, on or before January fifteenth of such even-numbered year or prior to the commencement of lobbying, whichever is later, a registration form signed under penalty of false statement and shall pay one-half of the biennial registration fee established by the board.

      (c) Each registrant shall file a notice of termination within thirty days after he ceases the activity that required his registration, provided the registrant does not intend to resume the activity during the biennial period for which he is registered; but termination shall not relieve him of the reporting requirements of section 1-96 for the period preceding the date his notice of termination is received by the Office of State Ethics or for the period commencing on such date and ending on December thirty-first of the year in which termination occurs.

      (d) In addition to the requirements of subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of this section, the registration of a: (1) Client lobbyist, as defined in section 1-91, shall include: (A) The name of such company or association, (B) the nature of such company or association, (C) the primary business address of such company or association, (D) the name of the person responsible for oversight of such client lobbyist's lobbying activities, (E) the job title of such person and any applicable contact information for such person, including, but not limited to, phone number, facsimile number, electronic mail address and business mailing address; and (2) communicator lobbyist, as defined in section 1-91, shall include the name of the person with whom such communicator lobbyist has primary contact for each client of such communicator lobbyist and any applicable contact information for such person, including, but not limited to, phone number, facsimile number, electronic mail address and business mailing address.

      (P.A. 77-605, S. 6, 21; P.A. 79-615, S. 5, 10; P.A. 81-339, S. 3, 7; P.A. 83-463, S. 1, 2; 83-586, S. 11, 14; P.A. 84-546, S. 146, 173; P.A. 89-251, S. 58, 203; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-1, S. 11, 22; P.A. 92-149, S. 2, 12; P.A. 95-144, S. 9, 11; P.A. 96-11, S. 4, 5; P.A. 05-183, S. 20; 05-287, S. 45, 50; P.A. 06-196, S. 14.)

      History: P.A. 79-615 required, as part of registration, the filing of information regarding lobbyist's employer and terms of his compensation for lobbying activities and changed provisions regarding notice of termination; P.A. 81-339 amended Subsec. (a) to raise monetary thresholds from $300 to $500; P.A. 83-463 amended Subsec. (b) by allowing the registration fee to be determined by the cost of collecting, filing, copying and distributing information filed by registrants, as well as by the cost of administering the registration form; P.A. 83-586 amended Subsec. (c) to extend reporting requirements to the period beginning on the date of termination of registration and ending on the December thirty-first following termination; P.A. 84-546 made technical change to Subsec. (a); P.A. 89-251 set the fee for administration at not less than $25; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-1 substituted "one thousand" for "five hundred" in Subsec. (a); P.A. 92-149 amended Subsec. (a) to require disclosure of name and address of persons contributing in excess of $1,000 in any calendar year and made technical corrections for statutory consistency; P.A. 95-144 deleted provision in Subsec. (a) re individual registrants who receive $1,000 or more for lobbying, effective June 28, 1995; P.A. 96-11 changed the lobbyist registration period from one to two years and increased contribution amount requiring disclosure from $1,000 to $2,000 in Subsec. (a) and amended Subsec. (b) to provide for even-year registrations, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 05-183 replaced "commission" with "Office of State Ethics" or "board" throughout the section, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 05-287 amended Subsec. (a)(5) to require inclusion of the names of executive agencies and quasi-public agencies and, where applicable, solicitations for state contracts and procurements, effective July 1, 2005, and added Subsec. (d) re additional registration requirements for client lobbyists and communicator lobbyists, effective July 13, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsec. (d), effective June 7, 2006.