2006 New York Code - Disclosure Requirements.

 
    §  16-321  Disclosure requirements. a. Whenever a person, other than a
  public servant, appointed to any advisory board created pursuant to this
  subchapter, engages in any business dealings  with  the  department,  or
  engages  in  business  dealings  with  any  other agency which relate to
  processing or disposal of solid waste or of waste described in paragraph
  three of  subdivision  m  of  section  16-303  of  this  chapter  or  to
  recycling,  or  has  an  interest  in  a  firm  which is engaged in such
  business dealings with the department or with such  other  agency,  such
  person shall, prior to appointment, disclose the nature of such business
  dealings  to the commissioner and to the body or officer appointing such
  person, and, after appointment, disclose the  nature  of  such  business
  dealings  to  the  commissioner  and to all other members of such board;
  provided that such person need not disclose the amount of such  business
  dealings.
    b. When used in this section:
    1.  "Advisory  committee" means a committee, council, board or similar
  entity that is constituted to provide advice or recommendations  to  the
  city  and which has no authority to take a final action on behalf of the
  city, to take any action that would have  the  effect  of  conditioning,
  limiting  or  requiring any final action by any other agency, or to take
  any action that is authorized by law.
    2. "Agency" means a city, county, borough or other  office,  position,
  administration,   department,   division,   bureau,  board,  commission,
  authority,  corporation,  advisory  committee   or   other   agency   of
  government,  the expenses of which are paid in whole or in part from the
  city treasury, and shall include but not be limited to, the council, the
  offices of each elected official,  the  board  of  education,  community
  school boards, community boards, the financial services corporation, the
  health and hospitals corporation, the public development corporation and
  the  New York city housing authority, but shall not include any court or
  any  corporation  or  institution  maintaining  or  operating  a  public
  library,  museum,  botanical garden, arboretum, tomb, memorial building,
  aquarium, zoological garden or similar facility.
    3. "Blind trust" means a trust in which a candidate for  any  advisory
  board  created pursuant to this subchapter or a member of such board, or
  the spouse or unemancipated child of such candidate  or  member,  has  a
  beneficial  interest,  the  holdings and sources of income of which such
  candidate or member and such spouse  and  unemancipated  child  have  no
  knowledge, and the trustee of which shall have independent authority and
  discretion.
    4.  "Business  dealings"  means  any  transaction  involving the sale,
  purchase, rental, disposition or exchange  of  any  goods,  services  or
  property,  and  any  performance of or litigation with respect to any of
  the foregoing, but shall  not  include  any  transaction  involving  the
  residence  of  any  candidate for any advisory board created pursuant to
  this subchapter or of any member  of  such  board,  or  any  ministerial
  matter.
    5.  "City"  means  the  city of New York and includes an agency of the
  city.
    6.  "Elected  official"  means  a  person  holding  office  as  mayor,
  comptroller,  public  advocate,  borough  president  or  member  of  the
  council.
    7. "Firm" means a sole  proprietorship,  joint  venture,  partnership,
  corporation  or  any  other  form of enterprise, but shall not include a
  public benefit corporation or local development corporation.
    8. "Interest" means an ownership interest in a firm or a position with
  a firm.


    9. "Ministerial matter" means an administrative act  that  is  carried
  out  in  a  prescribed  manner  and  which  does not involve substantial
  personal discretion.
    (10)  "Ownership interest" means an interest in a firm that is held by
  a candidate for any advisory board created pursuant to this  subchapter,
  or  by  a  member  of such board, or by the spouse, domestic partner, or
  unemancipated child of such candidate  or  member,  which  exceeds  five
  percent  of the firm or an investment of twenty-five thousand dollars in
  cash or other form of commitment, whichever is less, or five percent  or
  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  of the firm's indebtedness, whichever is
  less, and any lesser interest in a firm when such candidate  or  member,
  or  such  spouse,  domestic  partner,  or unemancipated child, exercises
  managerial control or responsibility regarding any such firm, but  shall
  not  include  interests  held in any pension plan, deferred compensation
  plan or mutual fund, the investments of which are not controlled by such
  candidate  or  member,  or  by  such  spouse,   domestic   partner,   or
  unemancipated  child,  or  in  any blind trust that holds or acquires an
  ownership interest.
    11. "Position" means a  position  in  a  firm,  such  as  an  officer,
  director,  trustee,  employee  or  any  management  position,  or  as an
  attorney, agent, broker or  consultant  to  the  firm,  which  does  not
  constitute an ownership interest in the firm.
    12.  "Public  servant"  means all officials, officers and employees of
  the city, including members of community boards and members of  advisory
  committees,  except  unpaid  members of advisory committees shall not be
  public servants.
    13. "Spouse" means a husband or wife of a candidate for  any  advisory
  board  created  pursuant to this subchapter or of a member of such board
  who is not legally separated from such candidate or member.
    14.  "Unemancipated  child"  means  any  son,  daughter,  step-son  or
  step-daughter  who is under the age of eighteen, unmarried and living in
  the household of a candidate for any advisory board created pursuant  to
  this subchapter or of the member of such board.