3.20.120 - No unregistered employment or activity.
3.20.130 - Personal obligation of city officials prohibited.
3.20.140 - Deception prohibited.
3.20.150 - Improper influence prohibited.
3.20.160 - False appearances prohibited.
3.20.170 - Prohibited representations.
3.20.190 - Restriction on former elected city officers from acting as a local governmental lobbyist.
3.20.120 - No unregistered employment or activity.
A.
A local governmental lobbyist shall not engage in any activity on behalf of a client as a local governmental lobbyist unless such lobbyist is registered and has listed such client with the City Clerk.
B.
No person shall accept compensation for acting as a local government lobbyist except upon condition that he or she forthwith register as required by this Act.
(Ord. 12782 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 12431 (part), 2002)
3.20.130 - Personal obligation of city officials prohibited.
Local governmental lobbyists, clients, contractors, and persons doing business with the city or the redevelopment agency shall abstain from doing any act with the express purpose and intent of placing any city or agency officer or designated employee under personal obligation to such lobbyist, client, contractor or person.
(Ord. 12782 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 12431 (part), 2002)
3.20.140 - Deception prohibited.
No local governmental lobbyist, client, contractor or person doing business with the city or the redevelopment agency shall deceive or attempt to deceive a city or agency officer or designated employee as to any material fact pertinent to any pending or proposed governmental action.
(Ord. 12782 § 3 (part), 2007; Ord. 12431 (part), 2002)
3.20.150 - Improper influence prohibited.
No local governmental lobbyist shall cause or influence the introduction of any ordinance, resolution, appeal, application, petition, nomination or amendment thereto for the purpose of thereafter being employed as a lobbyist to secure its granting, denial, confirmation, rejection, passage or defeat.
(Ord. 12431 (part), 2002)
3.20.160 - False appearances prohibited.
No local governmental lobbyist, client, contractor, or person doing business with the city or the redevelopment agency shall attempt in any way to create a fictitious appearance of public favor or disfavor of any governmental action or to cause any communication to be sent to a city or agency officer or designated employee in the name of any fictitious person or in the name of any real person, except with the consent of such real person.
(Ord. 12431 (part), 2002)
3.20.170 - Prohibited representations.
No local governmental lobbyist, client, contractor, or person doing business with the city or the redevelopment agency shall represent, either directly or indirectly, orally or in writing that such person can control or obtain the vote or action of any city or agency officer or designated employee.
(Ord. 12431 (part), 2002)
A.
No lobbyist or a lobbyist's registered client shall make any payment or incur any expense that directly benefits an elected city officeholder, candidate for elected city office, a designated employee, or a member of the immediate family of one of these individuals, in which the cumulative value of such payments or expenses exceeds $240 during any calendar year.
B.
The payments and expenses specified in subsection (A) include gifts, honoraria and any other form of compensation but do not include (1) campaign contributions; (2) payments or expenses that, within thirty (30) days after receipt, are returned unused or are reimbursed; (3) food, beverages or occasional lodging provided in the home of an individual lobbyist or individual lobbyist's registered client when the individual or member of the individual's family is present; (4) a pass or ticket to a fundraising event for a campaign committee or candidate, or for an organization exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (5) a pass or ticket given to a public agency and which meets the provisions of 2 Cal. Code of Regs. No. 18944. 1 (a) through (e), inclusive; (6) informational material; and (7) salaries, consulting fees or other payments for services rendered or bargained for. No other exception to, or exclusion from, the definition of gift or honoraria contained in the Political Reform Act of 1974 as amended, and the regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall apply to this section.
(Ord. 12782 § 3 (part), 2007)
3.20.190 - Restriction on former elected city officers from acting as a local governmental lobbyist.
No officer of the city or person who has held the position of department head or budget director shall be permitted to act as a local governmental lobbyist for a period of one year after leaving office. Ord. 12782 § 3 (part), 2007)