Ohio § 101.92

§ 101.92.

(A) Each retirement system lobbyist and each employer shall file with the joint legislative

ethics committee, within ten days following the engagement of a retirement system

lobbyist, an initial registration statement showing all of the following: (1) The name, business address, and occupation of the retirement system lobbyist; (2) The name and business address of the employer or of the real party in interest on

whose behalf the retirement system lobbyist is acting, if it is different from the

employer.  For the purposes of division (A) of this section, where a trade association or other

charitable or fraternal organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under

subsection 501(c) of the federal Internal Revenue Code is the employer, the statement

need not list the names and addresses of every member of the association or organization,

so long as the association or organization itself is listed. (3) A brief description of the retirement system decision to which the engagement relates; (4) The name of the retirement system or systems to which the engagement relates. (B) In addition to the initial registration statement required by division (A) of this

section, each retirement system lobbyist and employer shall file with the joint committee,

not later than the last day of January, May, and September of each year, an updated

registration statement that confirms the continuing existence of each engagement described

in an initial registration statement and that lists the specific retirement system

decisions that the lobbyist sought to influence under the engagement during the period

covered by the updated statement, and with it any statement of expenditures required

to be filed by section 101.93 of the Revised Code and any details of financial transactions required to be filed by section 101.94 of the Revised Code . (C) If a retirement system lobbyist is engaged by more than one employer, the lobbyist

shall file a separate initial and updated registration statement for each engagement.  If an employer engages more than one retirement system lobbyist, the employer need

file only one updated registration statement under division (B) of this section, which

shall contain the information required by division (B) of this section regarding all

of the retirement system lobbyists engaged by the employer. (D)(1) A change in any information required by division (A)(1), (2), or (B) of this section

shall be reflected in the next updated registration statement filed under division

(B) of this section. (2) Within thirty days following the termination of an engagement, the retirement system

lobbyist who was employed under the engagement shall send written notification of

the termination to the joint committee. (E) A registration fee of twenty-five dollars shall be charged for filing an initial

registration statement.  All money collected from registration fees under this division and late filing fees

under division (G) of this section shall be deposited into the state treasury to the

credit of the joint legislative ethics committee fund created under section 101.34 of the Revised Code . (F) Upon registration pursuant to this section, a retirement system lobbyist shall be

issued a card by the joint committee showing that the lobbyist is registered.  The registration card and the retirement system lobbyist's registration shall be

valid from the date of their issuance until the thirty-first day of January of the

year following the year in which the initial registration was filed. (G) The executive director of the joint committee shall be responsible for reviewing

each registration statement filed with the joint committee under this section and

for determining whether the statement contains all of the required information.  If the joint committee determines that the registration statement does not contain

all of the required information or that a retirement system lobbyist or employer has

failed to file a registration statement, the joint committee shall send written notification

by certified mail to the person who filed the registration statement regarding the

deficiency in the statement or to the person who failed to file the registration statement

regarding the failure.  Any person so notified by the joint committee shall, not later than fifteen days

after receiving the notice, file a registration statement or an amended registration

statement that contains all of the required information.  If any person who receives a notice under this division fails to file a registration

statement or such an amended registration statement within this fifteen-day period,

the joint committee shall assess a late filing fee equal to twelve dollars and fifty

cents per day, up to a maximum fee of one hundred dollars, upon that person.  The joint committee may waive the late filing fee for good cause shown. (H) On or before the fifteenth day of March of each year, the joint committee shall,

in the manner and form that it determines, publish a report containing statistical

information on the registration statements filed with it under this section during

the preceding year. (I) If an employer who engages a retirement system lobbyist is the recipient of a contract,

grant, lease, or other financial arrangement pursuant to which funds of the state

or of a retirement system are distributed or allocated, the retirement system may

consider the failure of the employer or the retirement system lobbyist to comply with

this section as a breach of a material condition of the contract, grant, lease, or

other financial arrangement. (J) Retirement system officials may require certification from any person seeking the

award of a contract, grant, lease, or financial arrangement that the person and the

person's employer are in compliance with this section.