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-An ordinance amending the City's Municipal Lobbying Ordinance, contained in the Los Angeles Municipal Code, to eliminate the requirement for lobbying entities to file a paper copy of various filings required to be filed electronically.

THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Section 48.06 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 48.06. Filing Methods.

A. All registrations, reports, and other filings required by this Article must be submitted under penalty of perjury by the person who is required to file and must be filed in a format prescribed by the Ethics Commission. The Ethics Commission must

> provide public access to all filings.

B. Lobbying entities and persons who qualify as lobbying entities must file registrations, quarterly reports, terminations and amendments to those filings

electronically.

C. If an electronic filing is required, the Ethics Commission must provide a unique identifier to the person who is required to file, to be used in place of a physical signature for submitting and verifying data under penalty of perjury. All electronic filings are presumed to be filed under penalty of perjury by the person required to file.

D. If a paper filing is required, it must contain the physical signature of the person who is required to file. A document is considered filed on the earHer of the date of receipt by the Ethics Commission or the date of the postmark if it is mailed and bears the correct address and postage.

Sec. 2. Section 48.06.1 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety.

Sec. 3. Subdivision 1 of Subsection D of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

1. The lobbyisfs name, business address, business email, and business telephone number.

3. If the lobbyist is not an employee, partner, officer or owner of a lobbying firm, the name, address and telephone number of the lobbyist's employer.

Sec. 5. Subdivision 1 of Subsection E of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

1. The name, address, email, and telephone number of the firm. Sec. 6. Subdivision 4 of Subsection E of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is renumbered as Subdivision 3 of Subsection E of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code and is amended to read as follows:

3. For each client on whose behalf or from which the firm received or became entitled to receive $250 in compensation during the calendar quarter for engaging in lobbying activities related to attempting to influence municipal

legislation within the meaning of this Article:

(a) The client's name, business or residence address, and business or residence telephone number.

(b) The period during which the representation will occur. (c) The item or items of municipal legislation for which the firm was retained to represent the client, or, if no specific items of municipal legislation for which the firm was retained to represent the client can be identified, a description of the types of municipal legislation for which the firm was retained to represent the client

(d) Each City agency that the lobbying firm has the authority to attempt to influence on behalf of the client

(e) In the case of a lobbyist who is an individual contract lobbyist, a statement that he or she has reviewed and understands the requirements of this Article.

(f) The name, address, email, and telephone number of the person responsible for preparing the statement

(g) Any other information required by regulation of the City Ethics Commission, consistent with the purposes and provisions of this Article.

Sec. 8. Subsection G of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is redesignated Subsection F.

Sec. 9. Subsection H of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read, and redesignated Subsection G, as follows:

G. Termination. Any person registered under this Article shall file a

termination statement with the City Ethics Commission within 20 days after ceasing all activity governed by this Article.

Sec. 10. Subsection I of Section 48.07 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is redesignated as Subsection H.

Sec. 11. Subsection A of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: .

A. Reporting Requirement. Every lobbyist, lobbying firm, lobbyist employer and major filer shall file the quarterly disclosure reports required by this Section on or before the last day of the month following each calendar quarter.

Sec. 12. Subdivision 3 of Subsection A of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

3. Quarterly reports shall disclose all required information for the calendar quarter immediately prior to the month in which the report is required to be filed.

Sec. 13. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of Subsection C of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code are amended to read as follows:

1. The name, address, email, and telephone number of the firm. 2. The name of each lobbyist who is a partner, owner, shareholder, officer or employee of the firm.

Sec. 14. Subdivision 3 of Subsection C of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety.

Sec. 15. Subdivision 16 of Subsection C of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 16. Subdivisions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of Subsection C of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code are renumbered as 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, respectively.

Sec. 17. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of Subsection D of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code are amended to read as follows:

1. The name, address, email, and telephone number of the entity filing the report.

2. The name of each lobbyist who is employed by the entity. Sec. 18. Subdivision 3 of Subsection D of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety.

Sec. 19. Subdivision 14 of Subsection D of Section 48.08 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:

14. The name, address, email, and telephone number of the person responsible for preparing the report.

Sec. 21. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and have it published in accordance with Council policy, either in a daily newspaper circulated in the City of Los Angeles or by posting for ten days in three public places in the City of Los Angeles: one copy on the bulletin board located at the Main Street entrance to the Los Angeles City Hall; one copy on the bulletin board located at the Main Street

entrance to the Los Angeles City Hall East; and one copy on the bulletin board located at the Temple Street entrance to the Los Angeles County Hall of Records.

I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance, was passed by the Council of the City of Los Angeles, at its meeting of DEC i ?. 2012 .

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DECLARATION OF POSTING ORDINANCE

I, MARIA VIZCARRA, state as follows: I am, and was at all times hereinafter mentioned, a resident of the State of California, over the age of eighteen years, and a Deputy City Clerk of the City of Los Angeles, California.

Ordinance No. 182360- Amending the City's Municipal Lobbying Ordinance, contained in the Los Angeles Municipal Code, to eliminate the requirement for lobbying entities to file a paper copy of various filings required to be filed electronically-a copy of which is hereto attached, was finally adopted by the Los Angeles City Council on December 12, 2012, and under the direction of said City Council and the City Clerk, pursuant to Section 251 of the Charter of the City of Los Angeles and Ordinance No. 172959, on December 21, 2012 I posted a true copy of said ordinance at each of the three public places located in the City of Los Angeles, California, as follows: 1) one copy on the bulletin board located at the Main Street entrance to the Los Angeles City Hall; 2) one copy on the bulletin board located at the Main Street entrance to the Los Angeles City Hall East; 3) one copy on the bulletin board located at the Temple Street entrance to the Los Angeles County Hall of Records.

Copies of said ordinance were posted conspicuously beginning on December 21, 2012 and will be continuously posted for ten or more days.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct Signed this 21st day of December, 2012 at Los Angeles, California.

Ordinance Effective Date: January 30, 2013 Rev. (2/21/06)