New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Chapter XX - Commission on ethics and lobbying in Government
Part 943 - LOBBYING
Section 943.4 - Statutory Exceptions
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
The following activities are not Lobbying Activities:
(a) Non-lobbying legal services.
(b) News gathering and publication.
Newspapers and other periodicals and radio and television stations, and owners and employees thereof, provided that their activities in connection with proposed legislation, rules, regulations or rates, municipal ordinances and resolutions, executive orders, tribal- state compacts, memoranda of understanding or other tribal-state agreements related to Class III gaming as provided in 25 U.S.C. § 2701, or Procurement Contracts by a State Agency, Municipal Agency, Local Legislative Body (as defined in section 943.8 ), the State legislature, or the Unified Court System, are limited to the publication or broadcast of news items, editorials or other comments, or paid advertisements.
(c) Contacts with the media.
Communications with a professional journalist, or newscaster, including an editorial board or editorial writer of a newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association or wire service, relating to news, as these terms are defined in section seventy nine h of the civil rights law, and communications relating to confidential and non-confidential news as described in subdivisions (b) and (c) of section seventy nine h of the civil rights law respectively and communications made pursuant to community outreach efforts for broadcast stations required by federal law.
(d) Participation at certain public proceedings.
Persons who participate as witnesses, attorneys or other representatives in public proceedings of a State or Municipal Agency (as defined in Section 943.8 of this Title) with respect to all participation by such persons which is part of the public record thereof and all preparation by such persons for such participation.
(e) Adjudicatory Proceedings.
Persons who attempt to influence a Public Official in an adjudicatory proceeding, as defined by section one hundred two of the state administrative procedure act.
(f) Response to requests for information/comments.
(g) Local lobbying by IRC Section 6033(a) religious organizations.
Any attempt by a church, its integrated auxiliary, or a convention or association of churches that is exempt from filing a federal income tax return under paragraph 2(A)(i) of section 6033(a) of Title 26 of the United States Code or a religious order that is exempt from filing a federal income tax return under paragraph (2)(A)(iii) of such section 6033(a) to influence passage or defeat of a local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation or any rule or regulation having the force and effect of a local law, ordinance or regulation.
(h) Licenses and Permitting.