Sec.1-92-56. Selection of registrants

(a) The Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board shall select registrants to be audited by lot in periodic ceremonies which shall be open to the public. Prior notice of the date, time, and place of any such ceremony shall be emailed to all known registrants and, if the ceremony is to take place during the legislative session, such notice shall be published in the Legislative Bulletin or other similar publication disseminated to registrants. For the purposes of the selection process, each client registrant will be assigned a number. No more than forty numbers will be selected for audit in any one year and each number selected will result in an audit. Audits will be conducted in the order selected. Numbers for audit will be drawn by the Chairperson of the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board or by his or her designee. When a client registrant's number is chosen for audit, the records of that client's communicator lobbyists, including all business organization, in-house or other individual lobbyists, kept in connection with that client will also be audited. Said communicator lobbyist(s)' records of personal expenditures for the benefit of public officials, or members of such officials' staffs or immediate families, will also be audited at that time.

(b) The records of each client registrant and the records of each communicator registrant kept in connection with that client shall be subject to audit no more than once every three years. A communicator registrant's records of personal expenditures for the benefit of public officials shall also be subject to audit no more than once every three years.

(Effective June 16, 1993; Amended January 2, 2008; Amended June 24, 2009)